"Defiance" by Ivan Lee Weir

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"Defiance" by Ivan Lee Weir
Defiance In Defense of American Democracy is a sequential compilation of Posts written by Ivan Lee Weir and published via Facebook between January 21, 2025, and June 14, 2025. Each Post was written as a stand-alone commentary on political events and activities as they occurred during the first five months of Donald J. Trump's second presidency. Taken together, the Posts represent the author's personal dispositions toward judicial and congressional failure to uphold the principles of democracy and are an alert signaling America's turn toward becoming an autocratic dictatorship. Reflected in the Posts is the author's chagrin over the lack of effective Democratic Party response to the MAGA, DOGE, ICE, and the Republican destruction of America's rule of law. In short, the Posts reflect the author's personal contemporaneous defiance to subversion of the Constitution of the United States by Donald Trump and his acolytes. The book ends with observations about the national No Kings Day uprising of June 14, 2025. Some Posts are written as imaginary stories with a moral viewpoint while others are direct appraisals of real occurrences. Together, they represent one participant's reflections during what has been called the most dangerous assault on American freedom since the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Readers will find themselves agreeing, disagreeing and exasperated by the observations Ivan Weir has presented.