Donald Trump told the ignorant white MAGA fans who showed up to hear him speak in Iowa last weekend that they should ‘go into’ cities like Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta next year to ‘protect the vote’.
A call to arms for a well-armed population that extends beyond voter intimidation to an exhortation to his base to become occupiers of urban polling places in predominately black districts under the pretense of protecting democracy.
He is urging race-based terrorism to try and paint his Democratic opponent as a threat to democracy.
Never in the modern era has an ex-President so openly called on white Americans to oppress their fellow citizens on behalf of his own thirst for power.
Power to punish those who would hold him accountable by appealing to the innate racism of the culturally ignorant swaths of Americans who would find such venom both righteous and appealing.
It certainly worked for him in 2016 with an obvious and able assist from Vladimir Putin.
Trump’s defining characteristic has always been his oppositional defiant disorder.
It waters the roots of his myriad defects and disorders.
Now his moral malignancies have become his chief political strategies, much like his previous attempts in 2020 to paint Joe Biden as both sexual predator and ‘Pedo Joe’.
A laughable accusation for anyone with even the slightest knowledge of who President Biden is as both a politician and human being.
It didn’t work so they moved on to his son, Hunter Biden.
The irony is that those two aberrations and accusations have walked alongside Donald Trump since his youth and metastasized into the ungodly lust that he has displayed and proclaimed for his daughter Ivanka since she was in her pre-teen days.
Trump would bring her as his date to NYC events when she was still a child, most famously to the Elite Models ‘Look Of The Year’ contest where he had her sign up with well known sexual predator and Trump Model Management associate John Casablancas.
A picture from that night was even displayed behind Trump at the resolute desk in the Oval Office and never fails to elicit well deserved criticism when it makes the rounds on social media.
The way he squeezes her hand in that pic alone says so much about the creepiness of Trump as a father.
Anyone who has observed the dynamic between the two of them up close, walks away feeling deeply uneasy and more than slightly queasy.
Exploiting and victimizing his own family members comes quite naturally for Donald Trump.
Trump has now found a way to marry his ‘No, you’re the puppet!’ playground retorts with his lust for rhetorical violence in anticipation of the real thing.
There’s no better example of this than his speech on the morning of January 6th, 2021 and the events that followed as his MAGA militia attacked the US Capitol.
However, despite his public exhortations to violence, and those of his foot soldiers like Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon, it was his remarks in private on the morning of January 6th that should be seen as the most chilling.
When Trump was told the crowd was taking a long time to assemble on the Ellipse due to the crowd having to pass through the magnetometers the Secret Service had to put in place to screen for weapons he replied, “Take the f*cking mags away! They’re not here to hurt me”.
He knew violence was coming, and he knew he had a limited window of time to rile up his army and send them to the Capitol to stop the certification.
In a sane world he would have been arrested that night.
Should Donald Trump reclaim power, the lack of urgency in holding him accountable will perhaps be seen as a fatal mistake.
He was hoping they would hang his own Vice President.
Mike Pence could not have been more loyal, fawning and obsequent to Donald Trump and his reward would have been death by hanging on the steps of the US Capitol by a bunch of bearded goons who drove to DC on a cold January day to become home-grown terrorists at Trump’s behest.
The electoral votes for Joe Biden would not be certified, he could retain his power as President and avoid the myriad criminal cases he knew he was facing when he left office.
This is not hyperbole - it is how it all nearly played out - and now he is broadcasting his intentions to come back and commit many more atrocities should the uniformed, ignorant and outright racist GOP voters chose him again.
He will of course be getting an able assist from the forces rooting for an oligarchy in the USA and their spoiler candidates du jour.
Including the possibility of Joe Manchin, as venal and rudderless a political creature as has held office in the last 40 years.
He’s made a career out of exploiting the poverty of his constituents for his personal financial gains and has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries for several decades.
There’s a lot of distraction, chaos; an overwhelming load of horror and catastrophe on the world stage right now and ALL of it provides strategic smoke screens that evil men can use to seize power.
Trump is as malignant and evil as they come - make no mistake about his character or intentions.
Should he be reelected by coup - or by third party misadventure that grants him the electoral college edge in the six or so swing states that will decide the next election - his name will go down in history with the likes of Mussolini, Franco and Vladimir Putin.
The question for all of us should be: do we want to save democracy as much as Trump wants to be a dictator?
Trump has studied and openly proclaimed his admiration of Adolf Hitler.
The idea of demonizing others based on their race and religion - and proclaiming the superiority of the white race is central to his political organization.
Even the so-called moderates in his last term who left to write books and become podcast hosts signed up for his toxically branded xenophobia from the beginning.
His 2016 campaign was launched targeting Mexicans specifically and Latin American migrants to the United States in general and literally millions of Americans agree with this awful rhetoric.
We have a Republican party now where MAGA’s ethos of evil and avarice has calcified and their demonization of the other has expanded to LGBTQ rights, women’s healthcare and anything that tickles the fantasy of mediocre Christo-fascist white folks many with a lot to hide in their own personal lives.
Much like our new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, a man who appears to have more skeletons in his closest than a chiropractic college.
You can bet his new cabinet will be a rogues’ gallery of the worst creatures in the far right-influencer movement.
Just this week, Kash Patel, a man who was instrumental in Trump’s attempted coup promised to go after the press in a second Trump term.
You can take him at his word.
Fascists like Stephen Miller will run roughshod over the human rights and civil liberties of millions of Americans.
We are less than a year away from the very real possibility that our fundamental trait as a republic will be altered forever or broken beyond belief.
Trump is maddeningly trying to achieve this by now accusing his opponent, President Biden, of the very same thing.
His attempt to paint Biden as a would-be dictator would be laughable if you don’t factor in the ignorance of those that will hear this slander and believe it to be true.
Biden has spent his life serving democracy and the rule of law.
He views the federal government as an instrument to better the lives of the people it was designed to serve and represent not as an obstacle to his own criminality as Trump and most of the GOP now view our bureaucracy.
Especially the working and middle class Americans of all races, genders and backgrounds.
President Biden’s north star has always been service and empathy in the pursuit of a stronger republic and a better nation for all.
As it should be and as our better angels demand.
Trump views the presidency as a cudgel to beat his enemies with and as a resource to plunder for himself and those who cosign his malfeasance.
He has always operated this way and always will.
The choice couldn’t be clearer.
Vote with your heart and encourage others to do the same.
Our future most certainly depends on it.
Yes I galls me to no end how people who proudly worked for Trump right up to January 6th like that piece of trash Alyssa Farah Griffin have managed to go on undeserved rehabilitation tours. Now she gets a job on “The View” why should she be treated like some fucking hero??
There is nothing we can do. Nothing.