Click here for a Robert Reich article on Substack entitled "Escaping Trump's revenge," subtitled "a horrible question is being asked,"
It's about Jim McDermott, a Democratic congressman who represented Seattle from 1989 to 2017, now living in Civrac-en Medoc, a small town just north of Bordeaux, France.
In a Washington Post interview:
Jim said he’s getting calls from former colleagues in Congress who fear what a vengeful Trump might do if reelected.
They wonder how to gauge the seriousness of Trump’s increasingly dire threats to American democracy and potentially to them and their families. “They are scared to do what I did — [to expatriate from the U.S.] — but are scared to stay,” Jim said. He tells them: “If you can afford it, buy a second home in France, or Spain, or Portugal, wherever … a second home that could become a safe house.”
Reich says:
They worry about Trump’s promise of “retribution” if reelected, his intention to direct the Justice Department to investigate “every Marxist prosecutor in America,” his claim that his indictments have “released the genie out of the box” that would allow him to weaponize the government against his opponents, and his vow to “root out … the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.”
They’re also concerned about the apparent willingness of Trump’s followers to resort to violence against his opponents.
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