06-22-2021, 07:47 PM
Trump's enablers have themselves committed egregious crimes, and the legal system must force an accounting for those.
Really, I see Donald Trump having a foot in the grave as it is. If anyone broadcasts "I am a fatal stroke waiting to happen", then it is he. If the cancer (horrid dietary habits -- too much burned food), stroke, or heart attack that he ends up with does not kill him at once, then it will debilitate him. Charles Manson, vile as he was, had enough vitality that until near the end of his stay in his mortal cowl, left no doubt that he belonged only in prison -- or Hell.
The right message involving Donald Trump isn't that he did horrible things ineptly, and the one who does horrible things competently enough to destroy the opposition will be justified on some "might-makes-right" proposition. Plenty of people believe much the same as Donald Trump, and some of them are far more knowledgeable about the political process and just as ruthless and cruel.
Cranks with power are dangerous. Such was Heinrich Himmler and Herrmann Goering. It's the cold, calculating fellow with insatiable desire for power and consummate ruthlessness who becomes a Hitler, a Stalin, or a Satan Hussein. Trump is a crank.
Let's not forget the Michigan plot as an expression of what people think possible if they despise even a state government. Beliefs are legal, but violent actions against a Constitutional government rip at everything. People must know also that democracy requires that people who lose elections accept the result. Lenin's Bolshevik revolution followed a sharp defeat of his splinter from the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Yes, some people would kill American democracy if such would achieve their vision of a Christian version of Iran.
Really, I see Donald Trump having a foot in the grave as it is. If anyone broadcasts "I am a fatal stroke waiting to happen", then it is he. If the cancer (horrid dietary habits -- too much burned food), stroke, or heart attack that he ends up with does not kill him at once, then it will debilitate him. Charles Manson, vile as he was, had enough vitality that until near the end of his stay in his mortal cowl, left no doubt that he belonged only in prison -- or Hell.
The right message involving Donald Trump isn't that he did horrible things ineptly, and the one who does horrible things competently enough to destroy the opposition will be justified on some "might-makes-right" proposition. Plenty of people believe much the same as Donald Trump, and some of them are far more knowledgeable about the political process and just as ruthless and cruel.
Cranks with power are dangerous. Such was Heinrich Himmler and Herrmann Goering. It's the cold, calculating fellow with insatiable desire for power and consummate ruthlessness who becomes a Hitler, a Stalin, or a Satan Hussein. Trump is a crank.
Let's not forget the Michigan plot as an expression of what people think possible if they despise even a state government. Beliefs are legal, but violent actions against a Constitutional government rip at everything. People must know also that democracy requires that people who lose elections accept the result. Lenin's Bolshevik revolution followed a sharp defeat of his splinter from the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Yes, some people would kill American democracy if such would achieve their vision of a Christian version of Iran.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.