Donald J Trump has been re-elected President of the United States.
He won by promising to end the rule of law and use “his” Justice Department to punish those who dared criticize or demean him. Bye bye Rule OF Law. Hello Rule BY Law. The signature feature of corrupt autocracies to use the legal system to crush all opposition.
He won by promising to end democracy in America by promising to serve a third term in 2028, reason to be made up and approved by the revolutionary theocratic Supreme Court sometime in the next four years (unless he dies and Opus Dei Catholic extremist nut case JD Vance “wins” the pretend election- see Maduro’s Venezuelan “victory”)
He won by promising to raise tariffs causing skyrocket inflation with a possible outcome of a Great Depression.
He won by promising to forcibly round up ten to fifteen million illegal immigrants (and some legal brown skinned folks “by accident”), put them in detention camps and throw them out of the country. My suggestion to my friends with Hispanic last names is to have proof of citizenship papers on you at all times.
He won by promising radical theocratic extremists full control over everyone’s bedrooms - no abortion, no birth control, no gay marriage, no porn, no no-fault divorce (and eventually no obstetricians)
He won by promising white supremacist men to force “their” women to be legally subservient to the all powerful Man of the House.
He won by promising white supremacists to be able to dominate all other races.
He won by promising young, uncertain young males that the way to be a man is to be dominating and cruel and make people afraid of you.
Trump is not a politician, he is a fascist tyrant. The Republican Party is not a political party, it is an anti-democracy theocratic and oligarchic revolutionary movement. His Supreme Court is not a court of law, it is a revolutionary court of rule BY law.
His first act is to violate the law by forcing the Senate to approve recess appointments - ignoring the mandate for Senate confirmation of appointments - crushing this vital check and balance of presidential tyranny. Of course. This is but the first in many, many, many violations of the Constitutional order to come.
I think the theocrats and oligarchs and proudly racists knew exactly what they were voting for and will applaud all of these atrocities.
But I think millions who voted for him have no idea what is coming. And it is coming for them as well as for women, and gays, and trans, and browns, and blacks, and reds, and yellows, and schools, and libraries, and newspapers, and TV networks, and magazines, and….you, dear Republican voter…
But I believe the purpose of this terrible American choice is to shock America awake to finally see that tyranny is not what manhood is about, that theocratic dogmatic dictates is not what spirituality is about, that crushing women’s choices and careers is not what love and marriage is about, that eliminating the news is not what enlightened voting is about, that crushing the institutions of democracy is not what democracy is about.
Tough times ahead…I guess this is what we need to see and live through in order to stand up and say no. And give birth to a new America, but not to this autocratic, corrupt, heartless nightmare of America. An America that can indeed become a Light on a Hill. A light of goodness, of personal freedom, of caring and compassion, not of threats, not of violence, not of fear.
