As a dictatorship consolidates [13] in Turkey, aspiring strongman Recep Tayip Erdogan is launching a special attack on municipalities [14], arresting the mayor [15] of Istanbul and removing elected governments [16] in hundreds of cities and towns across the country—mostly in the restive Kurdish east [17]. In the United States, aspiring strongman Donald Trump is now threatening [18] to similarly remove Zohran Mamdani [19] if he becomes mayor of New York, and order a federal take-over of the city government. Border czar Tom Homan [20] says he will "flood the zone [21]" with ICE agents in "sanctuary cities [22]" such as New York [23] and Los Angeles [24]. In Episode 287 [25] of the CounterVortex podcast [26], Bill Weinberg argues that Trump forcing the issue could accelerate the breaking point in which localities coast-to-coast assert their autonomous powers in repudiation of the fascist-coopted federal leviathan—vindicating Murray Bookchin's theories of radical municipalism [19].
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