The absolute numbing of legal and ethical senses by Trump’s Republican enablers is a direct threat to the viability of the United States. Unable to win elections Trump’s Republican enablers resort to voter suppression, election fraud, cancelling elections, lame-duck electoral nihilism. In doing so, the Republicans not only deliberately undercut democracy but show their utter contempt for it.
Dark money, Russia, and white evangelical supremacy fueled the disintegration of the Republican Party. Without any viable core ideology other than billionaire’s greed combined with End Times biblical mythology to act as a lodestar the Republicans’ only raison d’etre now is power.
America’s problem isn’t just Trump. He has been aided by a coterie of enablers, who have exploited the fissures, flaws, norms and loopholes in American democracy that allowed the unscrupulous to prosper at the expense of the people and the nation itself.
Trump’s domestic and international policies: an ill-conceived tariff war with China, unplanned troop withdrawals from Syria, and US abdication from key international treaties, the shutdown, reflect a White House implementing the chaos policies that Putin and the evangelicals wanted. Putin wanted the destruction of the USA. Evangelicals want the destruction of the world to hasten the “Return of Jesus!”
Trump should have been unthinkable. As the venerable conservative columnist, George Will, writes in the Washington Post: “Trump’s childlike ignorance preserved by a lifetime of single-minded self-promotion concerning governance guarantees that whenever he must interact with experienced and accomplished people he is as bewildered as a kindergartner at a seminar on string theory.”
Trump was hoisted into the White House by at least one enemy foreign power to whom he and his regime are now beholden combined with the loony fringe of American society known as white evangelicals. This really happened! And both Russia and End Times evangelicals were counting on the chaos Trump indeed initiated.
Gut-check: With each guilty plea, each indictment, each tweet, each chaotic descent to madness, each shutdown that’s ego-driven, it becomes evident that Donald Trump is not the legitimate president of the United States.
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That’s why they are so gleefully happy with all the chaos. They love it. They think they are going to be raptured up and vindicated by Jesus because more evolved human beings refuse to bow down to them. To hell with all their fake morals! They don’t care who gets hurt in this mess. “Oh Well!” they say, it’s just collateral damage for the cause of Jesus and Trump is their vehicle to get the rapture party going! Meanwhile, Putin, as evil as he is, is laughing his ass off ’cause he sees this delusional train wreck and is having wet dreams about using it to his advantage.!
Meanwhile, many of us normal human beings who can’t stomach all this negative energy going on in this country, are having to rely on therapy and sedatives in order to get by. No wonder there is an Opioid crisis at the moment.
Typical Trumper good-ole-boy response to shut-down: “I kinda feel bad fer dem folks not gettin’ paid and all dat but hell, it ain’t our fault. Dem Dem’s should’ve put Murica first and give Trump dat money fer dat wall so all dem rapist’s, druggies, and gangbangers would stop comin’ in and messin’ Murica up. You don’t mess with Murica! Trump gonna stand up to all dem panzies and make sure of dat! Praise Lord Jeeeezus for Donald Trump! He anointed man of Lawd Jeeezus.”
Sorry, I am feeling sarcastic at the moment and this may be offensive to some, but I live in a Gulf-Coast Red State and I here this crap all day, everyday!
Another gem I saw yesterday going to work: On the back of a windshield in a red pick-up truck, written in shoe polish, were the words “Please Pray to the Lord Jesus Today for Donald Trump-2020.” Sometimes I really am scared for my life.
Dear Frank Schaeffer:
One question, Frank … do you call for his arrest?
Epiphany Blessings!
Greetings from Germany. I like to read your blog posts. The zenith of the potus seems to have passed. Perhaps future generations will look back on this dark time and consider it an important wake up call for the younger generation to take responsibility. Hopeful and resolute.