Author: Mitchell A. Sobieski

Hungary’s democratic collapse offers a blueprint for Trump’s authoritarian vision for America

Hungary’s democratic collapse offers a blueprint for Trump’s authoritarian vision for America

Posted by | May 19, 2025

In the eyes of radical MAGA conservatives, Viktor Orbán is not just a European leader, he is a prophet. The Hungarian prime minister has become a celebrity figure in far-right American circles, regularly praised on Fox News, invited to speak at CPAC events, and emulated by GOP hardliners who view his autocratic tactics not as a threat to democracy, but as a road map to reclaim it, on their terms. To them, Orbán’s Hungary represents a nationalist ideal: a White, Christian, anti-immigrant society where liberal institutions are dismantled, dissent is suppressed, and the leader rules with unchecked authority in...

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Republican revival of failed Reaganomics pushes Milwaukee seniors toward hunger and despair again

Republican revival of failed Reaganomics pushes Milwaukee seniors toward hunger and despair again

Posted by | May 15, 2025

The last time the American public watched their elderly parents eat dog food to survive, Ronald Reagan had just swept into office, and a Republican-led economic crisis was gutting the middle class. Four decades later, the same party, driven by Trump’s nationalist delusions and billionaire deregulation schemes, has resurrected that nightmare with chilling speed. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the U.S. economy reeled from stagnation, inflation, and mass layoffs. While Republicans now blame that crisis on the oil embargo or Jimmy Carter, the record tells a different truth. The foundation of the economic collapse had already been...

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El precio de la crueldad: la crisis migratoria de Estados Unidos es consecuencia directa de su propia política exterior

El precio de la crueldad: la crisis migratoria de Estados Unidos es consecuencia directa de su propia política exterior

Posted by | May 14, 2025

La “crisis” migratoria de Estados Unidos no es un misterio. No es producto del azar, de la circunstancia o de algún cambio global inexplicable. Es la consecuencia predecible de décadas de crueldad calculada, mediante una política exterior diseñada para desestabilizar, desplazar y dominar. El caos que inunda la frontera sur fue fabricado en salas de juntas en Washington, en sesiones informativas militares y en operaciones encubiertas. Las personas que buscan refugio no son ajenas al poder estadounidense; son sobrevivientes de ese poder. “Estados Unidos tiene la obligación moral de ayudar a quienes huyen de las condiciones creadas por nuestras...

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Orden de reabrir Alcatraz es vista como maniobra política para provocar trauma público ante crecientes fracasos

Orden de reabrir Alcatraz es vista como maniobra política para provocar trauma público ante crecientes fracasos

Posted by | May 14, 2025

La orden de Donald Trump para reabrir la isla de Alcatraz como prisión federal operativa fue recibida con confusión generalizada, advertencias logísticas y rechazo por parte de expertos legales y líderes locales el 5 de mayo. Pero más allá de los obstáculos prácticos de reconstruir una instalación penitenciaria extinta en medio de la bahía de San Francisco, los críticos afirman que la maniobra representa algo más profundo. Dicen que se trata de un gesto escenificado políticamente para invocar nostalgia por un pasado brutal y desviar la atención de los crecientes fracasos del presidente en materia de políticas públicas. “Durante...

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The price of cruelty: America’s immigration crisis is the direct result of its own foreign policy

The price of cruelty: America’s immigration crisis is the direct result of its own foreign policy

Posted by | May 10, 2025

America’s immigration “crisis” is not a mystery. It is not the product of chance, circumstance, or some inexplicable global shift. It is the predictable consequence of decades of calculated cruelty, using a foreign policy designed to destabilize, displace, and dominate. The chaos flooding the southern border was manufactured in Washington boardrooms, military briefings, and covert operations. The people seeking refuge are not strangers to American power, they are its survivors. “America has a moral obligation to help those who flee the conditions created by our own foreign policy decisions.” — U.S. Representative Jim McGovern, August 8, 2019. From the...

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Order to reopen Alcatraz seen as a political stunt to provoke public trauma amid mounting policy failures

Order to reopen Alcatraz seen as a political stunt to provoke public trauma amid mounting policy failures

Posted by | May 6, 2025

Donald Trump’s order to reopen Alcatraz Island as a functioning federal prison was met with widespread confusion, logistical warnings, and backlash from legal experts and local leaders on May 5. But beyond the practical hurdles of rebuilding a long-defunct incarceration facility in the middle of San Francisco Bay, critics say the ploy represents something deeper. They say it is a politically staged gesture designed to invoke nostalgia for a brutal past. and redirect attention from the president’s mounting policy failures. “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who...

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