The Worst of the Worst:

By Rob C.

Art by Ed Wexler

TL;DR: The narrative being used to justify the current ICE terror campaign is just another provable lie. While the administration claims to be clearing out the “criminals,” they are actually engaged in a high-stakes campaign of racial engineering and constitutional arson. The true “worst of the worst” aren’t the families being snatched off the streets of Minneapolis; they are the wealthy elites currently buying their way out of the Epstein files, while Grandpa Grab-Ass in the White House is facilitating the cover-up. While the corporate media bickers over the language of the Super Bowl halftime show, a literal coup is not being televised, and the Fourth Estate has decided to play the role of appeaser.

Let’s cut through the spin.

It’s time for a quick civics lesson for the “Law and Order” crowd, most of whom seem to have gotten their legal knowledge from a Truth Social post. The Trump administration has spent years branding undocumented immigrants as America’s most dangerous threat — the “worst of the worst.” This sound bite is easy to repeat on cable news, and even easier to weaponize politically. But here’s the inconvenient truth the corporate media won’t speak plainly about: crossing the U.S. border without permission is a civil offense, (much like a high-stakes parking ticket) not a felony. An actual felony only occurs if someone is deported and then returns. That’s it. That’s the legal landscape. Yet we are told to believe that men, women, and families seeking a better life are somehow the apex of dangerous criminality while real predators roam free in the seats of power.

Now look at what’s really happening.

The administration loves to bleat about “hardened criminals” as they deploy their masked goons into American neighborhoods, but let’s look at the actual facts. The brutality we are witnessing in Minneapolis isn’t a response to a crime wave; it is a brutal, calculated attempt to make America whiter, and subvert the Constitution. These aren’t “bad apples.” They’re federal agents acting with overwhelming force, at the direction of Trump and his cronies.

If we’re being honest about who the “worst of the worst” actually are, we shouldn’t be looking at bus stations; we should be looking under the redactions in the Epstein files. The real criminals are the wealthy elites currently paying “bribe” money to the Trump family through crypto-scams and “consulting” fees to ensure their names stay hidden behind a wall of DOJ-approved black ink. While ICE is busy terrorizing American citizens and “innovating brutality” in blue states, the Department of Justice has been effectively privatized to act as a shield for the predator class. It’s a stunningly efficient system: you snatch the vulnerable to provide the “optics” of safety, while you protect the actual monsters to ensure the campaign donations keep flowing.

And then there’s the glaring, sprawling abstraction known as the corporate media.

They are currently too busy firing actual investigative journalists and selling out to billionaires to provide any real context on the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. It’s authoritarian theater. Instead of reporting on the fact that we are in the middle of a rolling coup, the talking heads are having a collective meltdown because the Super Bowl halftime show had the audacity to include the Spanish language. While the Fourth Estate complains about the “cultural shift” of a pop singer, the Trump Administration is busy nationalizing elections and building a secret police force with “absolute immunity.” The media hasn’t just lost its way; it has sold its soul for a seat at the billionaire’s table, and our democracy is the one paying the bill.

This is what authoritarianism looks like on its way in. The attempts to rig elections in democratic states using ICE as a domestic military force, the ongoing cover-up of elite pedophiles, and the systematic dismantling of government accountability are all part of the same authoritarian power grab. The “worst of the worst” doesn’t live in a migrant camp; he happens to be sitting in the White House, using the Oval Office as a personal ATM and a legal bunker. If the media won’t do its job and report on the actual criminals running the show, then it’s up to us to demand transparency and an end to this state-sponsored terror. The price of our silence is a country we won’t recognize by the next election—if they even bother to let us have one.

F*CK ICE, RELEASE ALL THE FILES!

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— Robert Cain, author of Democracy for Sale: How Corporate Greed Is Corrupting Democracy and Endangering the Planet.