By sending immigrants to a gulag in El Salvador, Trump is trying to seize the power to silence any American he wants.

Read the post that inspired this episode: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/beyond-seas Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/subscribe Do you have a question about a particular Next Comes What? Do you have more of a comment than a question you'd like to send in? Do you have a local or a national success story? Email your thoughts to nextcomeswhat at gmail dot com. You can write it. You might record it. You could even videotape yourself or your actions. ------ This week, Andrea Pitzer traces the arc of the kind of renditions the U.S. government is doing right now and looks at how a clean through-line exists from Nazi tactics to the methods used to disappear immigrants today. She explores why the U.S. is in such a dangerous moment, perhaps the most dangerous of the last half-century. The system of deportation and detention that Trump is trying to build parallels the use and structures of past concentration camps, and Andrea walks listeners through the similarities. Going back to the Declaration of Independence, a beautiful part of our flawed country has been the expansion of protection against arbitrary detention at the whim of a despot. It's worth standing up for. As always, at the end, Andrea includes suggestions about what actions to take, reminding everyone that there are many effective things they can do right now. Not being able to fix every crisis in a given moment doesn't mean you can't push back against the administration in countless concrete ways.