Again, thanks Dave, and hope you don’t mind me passing on your words, as we freak out together….
The G.O.P. Push for Post-Verdict Payback: ‘Fight Fire With Fire’ (NYT - 6/5/24)
In case you’re not closely following the blow-by-blow reactions in Trumpworld to Trump’s felony convictions in New York last week – the article below summarizes the all-out war that Trump and his minions have declared upon “the Marxists and Communists” (aka “Democrats”). They’re calling for massive and indiscriminate legal “retribution” to be carried out at all levels of government against any and all Democrats – all in a blind rage of unfocused revenge for Trump’s conviction. In short, a call for lynch mobs with briefcases.
This is nothing short of a declaration of war against civil society itself. Everything about the Trump’s New York trial was carried out in open, public court and all the rules of legal protection for both prosecution and defense were scrupulously followed before a jury of Trump’s peers unanimously convicted Trump. In response, Trumpworld has declared an all-out campaign of “legal” terrorism upon anyone whom they perceive as “the enemy” (i. e. most Americans – even though many of them don’t realize it yet and won’t until it’s too late – just like all those “good Germans” who supported or simply acquiesced to Hitler’s rise to power).
We’re already way past the terror tactics of McCarthyism (which Trumpworld has been applying in spades since the 2015 golden escalator moment). Now we’re fully into unanimous and open insurrection by every level of a major political party against We the People. This is penultimate phase of Steve Bannon’s “war to destroy the Deep State” (the “Deep State” meaning the very nuts and bolts of civil society in general). When civil society is gone, the thugs with the guns fill that vacuum (think Haiti for a worst case scenario).
This is how fascism works. First corrupt and discredit all the institutions of civil society and threaten violence (Jan. 6; thuggish Trumpian rhetoric) to topple the legitimate government. Then, once in power – remove all pretense of fighting on the turf of the now-defunct civil society and start ruling by naked fear, intimidation and reflexive violence.
From the 1996 film Twister:
Philip Seymour Hoffman: “It’s coming!!!”
Bill Paxton: “It’s already here!”
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