Sometimes this country just seems like one gigantic dumpster fire that some idiot set because, well, they’re just an idiot…
…like this guy…
…who tells us if
he gets another shot at being the man with the nuclear codes, he will unleash
the Insurrection Act, that he failed to do on January 6, in Democratic cities. It is just part and parcel of his failure to unite the country in times of “crisis”—this raging narcissist prefers to incite
his supporters into seeing their neighbors as enemies who must be crushed at all
costs, as long as they don’t have to dirty their own hands in that dirty
business, because their laziness begins with their own conscience.
In 2017, Eric Levitz wrote in New York Magazine that because Trump is not of the “political class,” he had not at the time “learned the disciplined use of language” and what “certain words mean in context.” If anything, Trump has become even worse with his use of violent and threatening words. While polls apparently reveal a shocking number of voters find Trump’s violent rhetoric “appealing,” Senate Republicans fear that they will again lose the Senate in 2024 if enough voters know that Trump in office needs some kind of “check” given his unbalanced personality and total lack of moral and ethical values.
Levitz pointed out that Trump “is suffering from an obsessive disorder that renders him helplessly self-destructive. Trump has stomped all over the naïveté defense. All that remains is the insanity plea. To plausibly deny that the president is a criminal, Republicans must stipulate that he’s out of his mind. Which is to say: There is no credible explanation for Trump’s conduct that is compatible with the idea that he is fit for high office.”
As we see today, that has not only not changed, but unlike any other candidates for the presidency in the past he has not the dignity to step aside for much greater failures of conduct. Even Al Franken was obliged to resign his Senate seat simply because of a high school prank-level incident years ago; yet even the “liberal” media has given Trump a pass on two-dozen claims against Trump ranging from “groping” to rape.
Why? Apparently because it knows Trump just laughs at them, and his supporters don’t think it’s a “big deal” so they won’t be listening anyways. However, the "liberal" media knows that they do have a fanatical audience of gender activists willing to eat their own just to make a "power point," even if it means being destructive to their own agenda.
We see that
Disney films like The Marvels and the
next batch of “superhero” films also promise to crap on their core
male audience with more characters they are not supposed to identify with, but film critics and activists
will applaud that before they go home, not realizing that the "audience" they were trying to reach was not listening and didn't care. What happened next? The film tanked at the box office.
We also saw this in the 2016 election, when everyone assumed Hillary Clinton was going to win the election, not knowing that 53 percent of white women would vote for Trump, and the result was the appointment of three far-right Supreme Court justices and a country blanketed with the same in the federal courts.
Some people think that is a “good” thing, of course; but then again, when Republican states (putting aside the question of whether Republicans even have a national governing philosophy that isn’t simply characterized by publicity stunts and chaos) are taking away free speech (often couched in “anti-CRT” rhetoric) and voting rights, it isn't so obvious at first that where they are taking the country is a single-party authoritarian regime.
We are told
in the Washington Post (“democracy dies in darkness”) that in the expectation that he wins in 2024
…discussions underway reflect Trump’s determination to harness the power of the presidency to exact revenge on those who have challenged or criticized him if he returns to the White House. The former president has frequently threatened to take punitive steps against his perceived enemies, arguing that doing so would be justified by the current prosecutions against him. Trump has claimed without evidence that the criminal charges he is facing — a total of 91 across four state and federal indictments — were made up to damage him politically.
Not only that,
but Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act nationally, basically
imposing martial law on Democratic cities. He announced that “We will root out the communists, Marxists,
fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines
of our country.” Nazi Germany, anyone? No wonder Deutsche Bank officials have been desperate to misrepresent their dealings with their former "client" in court and expressed no interest in his falsified financial reports; they would then be seen as colluding in his crimes.
It doesn’t matter what is true or not; racists and those with fascist inclinations are hungry for their beliefs to be converted into “concrete action.” Thus Trump went on to say that “the real threat is not from the radical right. The real threat is from the radical left, and it’s growing every day.” So while he zeros in on the “radical left,” the radical right in fact only grows in prominence, now acting with “lawful” impunity.
And like as occurred during his first presidency, this country's credibility and power on the world stage, as it did with our international allies, will suffer. The country's access to natural resources and fair trade will suffer because of the foolish belief that “The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within.” This is the talk of a white nationalist who actually hates this country and the principles it was founded on. Trump merely “governs” in the same authoritarian way he ran his “business.” He knows no other way.
His recent announcement that he is again to going to try to repeal the Affordable Care Act is a non-starter for even many Republicans, since it has been noted that there has been no serious discussions to “replace” it. Trump’s only wants to repeal it out of simple vindictiveness toward Barack Obama, since Trump himself has no similar legacy to his name, other than being a complete asshole.
Meanwhile, his toady House Speaker Mike Johnson, the “What, me worry?” guy…
…continues to promise nothing but continuing chaos from the House of Representatives on the budget impasse that is entirely of the far-right’s need for public relations stunts. Johnson has no real credibility within his own caucus; as Liz Cheney suggests in her new book, Johnson is apt to be a dishonest conspiracy theorist whose word to those who believe in the truth cannot be trusted, and he was just picked because the far-right of the party believes he can be used, and he was the lesser of many evils that so-called moderates could stomach because of his “nice guy” persona.
Of course that is only one part of the problem; what the country really needs is someone who wouldn't “worry” about doing this to Trump and the far-right:
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