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From Jonathan Last of The Bulwark: ___ An elected Democrat ought to be on the ground in El Salvador every minute of every day until Abrego Garcia is brought home. They should be in constant communication with the Salvadoran government and should make an endless list of demands. In short: Congressional Democrats should do the job that Justice Department lawyers, in contravention of the Supreme Court, are refusing to do. They should take it upon themselves to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. In this role, Democrats should give daily updates to the public about their progress. They should make themselves targets. And they should inflict political pain on Donald Trump. This will require a paradigm shift for Democrats. They will have to act less like an American political party and more like Solidarity in Poland in the 1980s or Alexei Navalny’s People’s Alliance over the last decade. But they should be under no illusions. The old American order is dead. It ended on April 14, 2025, when a Latin American strongman sat in the Oval Office and discussed sending U.S. citizens to foreign concentration camps with the American president while they jointly defied the Supreme Court. Everyone who is not part of the authoritarian regime is a member of the dissident movement now. The sooner they realize it, the better.