Jason Johnson on Executive Orders: It’s ‘Terrible’ and Not ‘Sustainable’
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PHANG: “I have to ask you, straight out of the gate is this first week what we’ve seen so far? Is it worse? Is it better? I have to put that in quotes. Right, my friend? Or is it pretty much on par with what you expected it to be?”
Johnson: “You know, honestly, Katie, it depends on who you ask, right? I mean, I think there are some people in America who this is more or less what they expected. There are some people in America who are now out of jobs because executive orders have ended funding for everything from cancer research to environmental research. And then there are families that are being torn apart right now because of possibly unconstitutional raids on people of various ethnicities and supposed backgrounds. So I don’t I don’t know if it’s better or worse. I know it’s terrible. I know this is not a sustainable way of functioning in a democracy. And unfortunately, I think we have just seen the beginnings of this. We already have reports of people in these raids being taken who are Puerto Ricans, Puerto Ricans are American citizens. It’s not as if these people are operating. They’re not surgeons. They’re ax murderers. Right? So they’re just going to grab large groups of people who appear to be Latino, who appear to be afro-caribbean, who appear to be, you know, not necessarily from this country. And they’ll be sorted out later. And that’s a problem.”
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