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By unknown author - "La Guillotine en 1793" by H. Fleischmann (1908), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11471992 The coming Reign of Terrorby Jamie McKenzie(about author) |
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Given the vows of the president-elect to shake things up, wreak vengeance upon political enemies and deport millions of undocumented workers along with their families, it is quite possible historians will look back at his second term in office as they do at a similar time during the French Revolution that is usually called the “Reign of Terror.” Whether his reign will qualify for such a label will depend upon how many words listed below prove apt in describing his actions and the damage done to civilians along with democratic norms and institutions. 
 Photo by Tyler Merbler at https://www.flickr.com/photos/37527185@N05/50812356151/ Will he pardon the January 6 insurrectionists? Will he use troops to round up undocumented immigrants? Will he get Congress to pass laws limiting freedom of speech and the press? Will he throw critics into prison? Will he create paramilitary groups like Hitler's brownshirts? Will he team with Putin to weaken NATO and betray the Ukraine? 
Could these kinds of terrors happen in the USA?Ask the Japanese Americans confined to internment camps during World War II.Ask the Americans whose lives and careers were ruined by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Ask those damaged during the Red Scare of 1919-1920. The unthinkable  Photograph 210-G-A39; San Francisco, California. Exclusion Order posted at First and Front Streets; 4/11/1942; Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945; Records of the War Relocation Authority, Record Group 210; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/exclusion-order, December 6, 2024]  _3.jpg) US Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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