This election, from President to Congress to State offices to judgeships, is a contest between Americans vs MAGA extremists. Or better said, between those trying to preserve democracy and the rule of law vs those trying to impose authoritarianism and rule of tyranny.
I know the right-wing extremist media bubble is constantly shouting that they are the Real Americans, the real upholders of the Constitution, the real Enforcers of law.
But it was Trump and his extremist MAGA base that attacked the Capital on January 6, 2021; it was they who beat the police; it was they who brought weapons and had a strike force with thousands of rounds of ammunition waiting in nearby hotels awaiting the command of their El Duce to attack.
It was and is the MAGA faithful planning threatening para-military forces to surround the polls in November to intimidate Democratic voters. It is they who have closed multiple polling places in black and brown communities; it is they who want to outlaw early voting and vote by mail - so they can force people to the voting booths on election day which will have intimidating white threatening poll watchers; it is they who are doing their best to turn our country into the second coming of the Jim Crow South. It is they who support and praise their lifelong corrupt leader who has been caught in multiple frauds, crimes, and thefts.
My heart hurts for these people who have been so conditioned to think these outrageously anti-democratic acts are actually forms of patriotism and love of country. Oh my.
And it is the MAGA Despot who already claims the election is being and will be rigged against him. And it is he who will call for and direct violence when he loses. I deeply hope that very, very few will be so deluded as to head his call.
But I believe that enough of America is wise to the sham, the scam, the threats, the emptiness of Trump and of MAGA itself. They have been conditioned to only hate, do violence, make threats, seek revenge - old worn-out Culture War sputtering. I think they are played out.
I think America will turn away from the ever more deteriorating expressions of The Former Guy.
