The Atlanta Objective with George Chidi

The Atlanta Objective with George Chidi

What Compliance With Fascism Looks Like

It isn't Marines marching down Main Street. It's local cops behaving like the rules don't matter and getting away with it.

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George Chidi
Jul 22, 2025
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Mario Guevara didn’t get arrested because he was undocumented. He got arrested because a local Doraville cop had an excuse to screw with a news reporter at a protest, and he took it.

Nor is Guevara sitting in an Immigration and Customs Enforce detention cell simply because he’s undocumented — and that only in a very technical sense, since he has complied…

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