There are moments in history when the air itself feels heavy with meaning when every headline, every court filing, every televised word seems to echo the same unspoken truth: we are being tested.
Since inauguration day, we have been holding our breath. The noise has turned to thunder lawsuits choking the courts, the Supreme Court tilting beyond balance, the military visible again on city streets. What was once rhetoric has become reality. And the rhetoric remains dark, unrelenting, and often cruel.
When Robert Reich, a man whose career has been anchored in the study and defense of democratic governance, warns that the invocation of the Insurrection Act is no longer theoretical, we should not scroll past his words. This is not hyperbole. It is materializing in real time a president indicted yet unrepentant, invoking powers meant only for true rebellion, and turning them against his own people.
In his recent public statement, Reich makes plain that this is not a rehearsal it is happening now. His message, fact-checked and urgent, is a call to every citizen to see what stands before us: not politics as usual, but a calculated dismantling of democratic constraint
