Keeping silence against injustice invites more injustice

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By Mary Ellen Klas / Bloomberg Opinion

Let’s resolve to have the courage to speak up more in 2026.

I realize this is easy for me to say; I’m a columnist. But I live in Florida, where I have many friends who have been Trump supporters and who are privately queasy about what they see as brazen corruption coming from President Donald Trump and his administration. While there is widespread support for the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, many wanted more transparency about the threat to our national interest. Yet, they don’t feel right calling out Trump for this or his other transgressions, so they dance around it; often trying to find some equivalent outrage under a Democratic administration.

But there is no equivalence. We are a year into the president’s four-year term and we have seen a cascade of self-enriching deals, the firing of Justice Department watchdogs, the sweeping use of the president’s pardon power to free his allies — regardless of the seriousness of their crimes — and the frightening near-abandonment of the rule of law.

As Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought have pursued their wrecking-ball agenda, congressional Republicans have remained virtually dormant. The administration has systematically reengineered the president’s spending power; realigned federal policy to elevate the executive branch over the other branches of government; prosecuted the president’s perceived political opponents; fired public servants for simply doing their jobs; disappeared immigrants without due process; and snatched Venezuela’s president and laid claim to the country’s oil.

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1. I'm tired of people being 'quietly' uneasy. In his first

Administration some people were outraged that the people working for him who they thought had a conscience would not resign and were not happy with the behind the scenes answers that said it would be so much worse if they did resign.

Those people who stayed were mostly heroes although the high ranking ones who wrote books and cashed in cancelled out any good will I might have given them and that goes double for Cabinet members.

To hear that phrase again that people are privately concerned, whether from members of Congress or in the private sector sickens me.

IT IS WORSE!!

Stand the fuck up!!