If managers are silent, the USA will not survive Trump's next 100 days | Robert Reich

We saw the first 100 days of the hideous Trump regime.

The US constitution is in danger. Civil and human rights are kicked with feet. The economy is disordered.

At this speed we will not make it through the second 100 days.

Federal judges in more than 120 cases have so far tried to prevent Trump – judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats. In one case, it even arrested a city judge in Milwaukee with an undocumented defendant.

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III recently. The Court of Appeal for the fourth district -an important conservative Reagan representative, who is revered by the Federist Society, published a devastating complaint for the Trump regime. In response to the claim that the residents of the United States can kidnap it and use them without proper procedure, Wilkinson wrote:

If the executive today claims the right to proper procedure and with disregarding court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that they do not deport American citizens and then reject responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance will there be that the executive will not train their broad discretion powers on their political enemies? The threat, even if not the topicality, would always be present and the commitment of the executive to “make sure that the laws are faithfully executed” would lose its importance.

Wilkinson's fears are already being realized. ICE recently deported three US citizens aged two, four and seven when their mothers were deported to Honduras. One of the children who have cancer in stage 4 was sent without medication or consultation with doctors from the USA.

In the meantime, the regime continues to attack all independent institutions in this country that traditionally served as a buffer against tyranny, non-profit organizations, lawyers and law firms, media, science and researchers, libraries and museums, the public service and independent agency-and threaten with the utilization or loss of funds if they no longer observe and the demands afford.

Trump has even instructed the Ministry of Justice to examine Actblue, the platform that supports collecting donations for almost all democratic candidates and the topics that support Democrats.

Trump is now actively destroying the economy. His proposed tariffs already increase prices. His attacks on the Fed boss Jerome Powell cause tremors worldwide.

Trump wants to be total, even at the expense of our democracy and economy.

His surveys are falling, but many Americans are still rejected. “He does things!” Some say. “He's hard and strong!”

Every American with a number of authority has to explain loudly and courageously explain the danger in which we are.

Some democratic members and progressive in the congress (Bernie Sanders, AOC, Cory Booker, Chris van Hollen, Chris Murphy) have expressed outrage, but most seem to be strangely calm. Admittedly, you have no direct authority to prevent what takes place, but you cannot and must not agree. They have to be heard every day – protest, challenge, resist, refuse.

Barack Obama spoke to his honor at least once, but where is my old boss Bill Clinton? Where is George W Bush? Where are your former Vice President-Al Gore and Dick Cheney? Where are your former cabinet members? They all have to be heard too.

What about republican congress members? Are none Ready to defend yourself against what happens? And what about Republican governors and state legislators? If there was ever a time for courage and integrity, it is now. Your silence is unexcused.

Finally, over 400 university presidents have issued a letter in which “the unprecedented over -control of the government and political interference now endangered American university formation”. Good. Now you have to speak against the transfer of all American democracy.

Hundreds of law firms have joined a friend from the pitch to support the appeal of the Perkin's Coie law firm against the regime's claims. Fine. Now, together with the American Bar Association and every large legal faculty, you have to give the alarm about Trump's vengeful and abusive use of the Ministry of Justice.

America's religious leaders have a moral obligation to comment. They have a spiritual duty towards their communities and themselves to hear their voices.

The executives of the American company – starting with Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who took on the role of the speaker for the American company in normal times, breastfeeding. Of course, they fear Trump's retaliation. Of course, they hope for an enormous tax cut. But these excuse their apparent approval to destroy American democracy.

We saw what can happen in the first 100 days. I am not sure at all whether we can wait until the 2026 elections and hope that Democrats will withdraw at least one chamber of congress. With the price that this regime is, too much damage will be done until then.

The nation stumbles on the edge of the dictatorship.

We are no longer a democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the regime or we are involved in his tyranny. There is no middle ground.

Soon, I'm afraid, the regime will openly defy the Supreme Court. The Americans must be mobilized in such a large wave of anger and disgust that the members of the house have been forced to complain about Trump (for the third time), and enough senators are moved to finally condemn it.

Then this shameful chapter in American history ends.

• Robert Reich, a former American Minister of Labor, is an emeritus professor of public order at the University of California in Berkeley. He is a guard of the US columnist. His newsletter is at Roberreich.substack.com