The external threat could reinvigorate appreciation for intellectual diversity and open inquiry that was eroded during the woke era’s internal policing mechanisms.

Sartwell’s analysis presents a complex paradox: while MAGA censorship represents a more severe constitutional violation and abuse of governmental power, it may inadvertently restore academic freedom by forcing previously fractured academic communities to unite in defense of their core mission.

When external fascism becomes the antidote to internal thought-police… America’s ivory towers are eating their own entrails while Trump sharpens the knife.

🔥 THE BLOOD-DRUNK ACADEMY WARS: A retired prof throws gasoline on the campus censorship fire—admits MAGA’s government boot-stomping might SAVE universities from their own woke suicide cult.

“As a professor, I’ve seen woke and MAGA censorship. Which is worse?” Which executioner do you prefer—the one inside the gates or the one breaking them down? The paradox will make your brain bleed. 🧠⚔️ wapo.st/4qo8th0

Immigration detention still puts people—especially those with mental illness, disabilities, and LGBTQ+ identities—in solitary for years, causing severe harm. Officials dodge transparency, ignoring federal data rules.

The Solitary Confinement Crisis in Immigration Detention by Sabrineh Ardalan, Arevik Avedian, Philip Torrey :: SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The nation’s federal structure, constitutional protections, and diverse economy provide resilience that many historical civilizations lacked. However, these advantages mean little without the collective will to maintain them.

America retains unique advantages: independent courts, largely free media, and relative geopolitical safety.

Europe, after the devastation of the 20th century, chose peaceful exchange and common institutions over conflict.

Norberg emphasizes that civilizations don’t end by fate or old age—they end or revive by choice. Song China, after losing its northern territories to invaders in 1127, built a new capital, doubled down on openness and innovation, and became more prosperous than ever.

The real danger lay in internal decay: the “increasing disregard for law” and the substitution of “wild and furious passions in lieu of the sober judgment of courts”

Lincoln understood that no external force could defeat America militarily—“All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years”.

Lincoln warned that America’s greatest threat would come from within: “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide”.

Is it America’s fate to decline and fall? Here’s what history says.
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A federal appeals panel in Chicago clipped the President’s wings—upholding the lower court’s ban on deploying National Guard troops to Illinois streets. The Guard remains under federal command, but troops stay on base, barred from the streets for now.

1. Foreign invasion or danger thereof
2. Rebellion against U.S. government authority.
3. The President is unable to execute federal laws.

The court found that President Trump likely exceeded his statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 12406, which permits National Guard federalization only under three specific circumstances:

Judge Perry found there was no credible evidence of “rebellion” or justification for federalizing the Guard, and ruled that deploying troops in these circumstances would violate the Tenth Amendment and intrude on the state's reserved sovereign powers.

The court sided with Illinois: the federal government cannot override a state’s control over its own National Guard without meeting extraordinarily high legal standards. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

The reality is that any “day of reckoning” will be both limited in scope and significantly delayed by the labyrinthine procedural protections surrounding federal agents.

For non-citizens facing the same system without even citizenship protections, the outcome is predetermined: constitutional rights exist on paper while federal courts guarantee they remain meaningless in practice.

The result is what legal scholars recognize as constitutional rights without remedies—a system where the Constitution promises protection but federal courts ensure victims never receive justice. Davino Watson, a U.S. citizen, spent over three years in detention and received nothing.

1. FTCA time limits that run during detention without counsel
2. Bivens restrictions that refuse new immigration contexts
3. Qualified immunity that shields agents from “unclear” law violations
4. Equitable tolling denial that treats systematic deprivation as “common”