Bend the knee and wait for the mad king to be distracted by some new thing to be angry about.
Put up a fight and have the full weight of the government come down on you while every other person and organization that might stand along side you faces the exact same 2 decisions.

Fascists require that we stand divided, that every person, every university, every company, every lawyer, and every judge does the same cynical calculus and decides “better someone else than me.”

It’s also why when someone stands against them they will break every law, every norm, and every moral and ethics red line they can get away with to make it as horrible as possible. The reason you send people publicly and loudly and with great fanfare to CECOT, the reason you hold a press conference to thumb your nose at the Supreme Court, is to send a message. To tell anyone that might dare to stand up against you, “I’ll do the unthinkable to you, stay in your lane”

The actual way to defeat this is solidarity. For people and organizations to stand together. If the shelves empty out this summer we might all find common cause.