The Republic Is Being Dismantled in Real Time

[RECORDED LIVE JANUARY 22, 2026]

On The Mayday Morning Show, Michelle Kinney and Julie Roginsky trace the moment democratic backsliding becomes democratic collapse: judges threatened for enforcing the law, ICE operating as a political weapon, children used as bait, and a Speaker of the House openly endorsing the end of judicial independence.

 

From Trump’s NATO wrecking ball and authoritarian rhetoric, to Mike Johnson’s call to impeach judges for ruling against the president, to the normalization of cruelty and silence from legacy media — this episode lays out how democracies actually fall: legally, incrementally, and in plain sight.

 

This is not about partisanship.

It’s about the judiciary as the keystone of democracy — and what happens when it’s removed.

 

The warning signs are no longer theoretical.

They’re already here.

 

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