Donald Trump with his
jutting jaw and his grandiose self satisfied demeanor very much
brings to mind the 1930's fascist dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini.
Trump is so far not (not yet anyway) a Mussolini. He has no real
program, no ideology, he is no war veteran, has no mass following
(although a dangerously large one), and has not actually presided
over any 'trains running on time'. But like Mussolini he did get in
by legitimate parliamentary means by using working class discord and
playing the nationalist card and then proceeding to consolidate power.
Trump has a way to go yet but certainly has already adopted some of
the Duce's mannerisms and inclinations, and that's scary.
We have allowed a proto-fascist, cheap hustler to take over the
levers of power. And almost daily he finds new ones to pull with
unknown results (or legality). He is proving to be quintessentially
dangerous both to our country and to the world at large, and must be removed from
office ASAP. But how, when nearly half of the voters support him
either for Republican agenda real politick reasons or are deluded
Kool Aid drinkers? It is clear impeachment can't do it. While our
impeachment process was designed for something exactly like this, it
won't work in this situation. The Repubs have long since ceased being
any kind of 'loyal opposition' and will back Trump even as they
despise him. And Speaker of the House Pelois is wary of 'the
optics' of it and how it can be spun by the WH, the Repubs and
pro-Trump media. As we know the Repubs have misused and thus debased
the tool of impeachment by using it on Bill Clinton over his lying
about his personal life. Impeachment as a Constitutionally mandated
process for removal of a dangerous POTUS, packs far less wallop and
carries far less disgrace than it once did. It now looks too much
like mere political theater (or a cheap political maneuver as in
Brazil with the “impeachment” of Lula's successor).
Nevertheless
I have come around to believe that the impeachment process must be
used even if it cannot actually drive the him out. The
seriousness of the situation increases daily. He is running a muck.
Hopefully the impeachment process will tie up the WH staff and slow
down his rampage. Otherwise unimpeded he will continue to discover
new outrages to commit. His impeachment is our duty to the
institution of democracy even if it might not yield his actual
expulsion. The political warfare will continue with or without an
ongoing impeachment. But let's
take our time. It's needs to be in-process when
the 2020 presidential contest in full force. Trump does not need to
have enough time to portray the failure to impeach as a badge of honor as he has the Mueller investigation's failure to indict. Have it still 'underway' on election day.
Having recently returned from Barcelona I can you tell that post-fascist Spain
with the Socialist Party presently in power at least from a tourista
point of view looks like a worker's paradise compared to the Bay Area
where I live. They have lots of functional if not spiffy public high
rise public housing, clean fast public transportation, excellent
coffee, (somewhat) safe streets etc. I saw no street crazies; I only
saw one panhandler and zero sidewalk tents. And Spain was one of the
hardest hit countries by the great recession. The decaying shab
factor so evident in here in the US didn't seem evident at least in
the parts of Caledonia I visited. After Franco I think they
appreciate democracy. I don't think we do. Many didn't bother to vote
for or against Trump. We have let the Repubs jigger the voting
process so that Demo Party inclined voters (Blacks, Latinos, college
students) have a harder time voting. Also the positions of the
candidates on the issues are less important than their expensive
psychologically manipulative advertising spots. That's sad. Voting is
supposed to be about expressing your position on issues not your
emotional reactions to candidates.
Anyway,
the forces that turned over the House of Representatives to the Demos
in 2018, a laudatory accomplishment, need to again be unleashed and
come together to throw out this bum in 2020!
I have not posted anything since March of this year. I have left it to other commentators more erudite, informed and skillful as wordsmiths than myself to agonize over our situation. I hope I am proven to be overly pessimistic. But however today's election turns out the overall dynamics that I see I believe will remain in force.
November 6. 2018
Never in my life have I had more
misgivings about the future. We seem to be doomed to bitter hard times whether it's an slow descent or a sudden heart stopping
plunge. Usually it's some poor souls
somewhere else but eventually everyone's turn will come.
Whether it is a climate change driven fire storm or an overheated ocean
spurned Category 5 hurricane, or whether it's street fighters with bandannas
covering their faces hurling rocks and bottles at police or a sudden
bloody ring of carnage wrought by someone armed with an assault
weapon and made crazy by hatred. Whatever it is some form of historical (and preventable) calamity will
eventually track us all down. Across the globe such events
seem to be erupting daily usually in the form of tribal or religious
warfare. And always they are underpinned by an ever sharpening
divide in wealth inequality.
This divide between factions is
becoming increasingly insurmountable with many countries pushing
messy democratic norms aside in favor of autocracy and 'trains running on time 'type solutions.
Everywhere it's the same story the few possessing impossibly vast
stores of wealth use local religious theocrats in conjunction with
home grown demagogues and/or corrupt pols to manipulate the
uneducated and gullible to resist any reasonable and humane approach
to what is essentially an economic problem. This while the planetary
resources are being pushed to their breaking point as the natural
environment is ravaged and consumed. Systematic
unsustainability is ignored in a mad rush to feed capitalism's monstrous appetite for growth. The only future that novelists and
screenwriters can can now imagine are dysotopian nightmares – either sterile, mind controlling Orwellian police states or Mad Max barbarism on a
horizon of empty desolation and dead cities. But never mind that, for the oligarchic overlords
and their well paid minions, science when it cannot be teased into
profitable technology, is ignored even as the warning lights flash
red. Obligatory formalized acknowledgement of the 'climate change' crisis and it's dire implications is duly made but real engagement matching it's degree of seriousness remains impossible.
And to make matters worse a newly
invigorated 21st Century fascism has emerged and is
normalizing itself as a legitimate political faction hiding behind
the frayed banner of nationalism. The traditional mainstream
centrists parties are becoming increasingly irrelevant. And the
traditional left is yet to reformulate itself into something beyond
simply a means of defending the remnants of social programs that
resulted from capitalism's 1930s Keynesian rescue and the heady
pro-labor post WWII years.
The Brit's Tories have been forced to
embrace and enact the self destructive nationalistic insanity of
Brexit supported by a deluded and angry working class, while its own
Labor Party struggles to breath some life back into the tired
discredited chimera of socialism. Here in the US the once
center-right Republican Party, having sold is soul to lingering
racist legacy of the old Confederacy, cynically embrace a dangerous
mountebank. The once merely 'conservative' Grand Old Party that has
moved so far to the right on the political spectrum that even Ronald Reagan is rolling in his
grave. While the Democrats, still dazed and confused as to how they
lost the presidency to such a fraud, are wondering how they allowed
things to go so far 'south' (pun intended). Having long ignored a
critical part of their base, the rural and rust belt trapped white
working class, they now realize that they focused too much on
identity politics and the placating liberals in the professional
middle class. The tone deafness of the Democrats to the reality of
late capitalism and its depredations on the US working class as it
mutated into a heartless trade union hostile globalized version was
not lost on one up and coming gifted demagogue.
When ordinary people become convinced
by glib professional haters that their traditional way of life,
economic livelihood and even physical safety is threatened by
'outsiders', they become mobs or sit by and watch as 'good Germans'.
The reality that these so called 'invaders are' actually just
ordinary people desperately fleeing the horrors of civil war, abject
poverty and gang warfare is lost in the firestorm of hate fueled by
fear and loathing of imaginary demons. We can only hope this fever
will break before all is lost.
Yes,
it's abnormally cold in Europe and abnormally warm in Greenland. The
polar vortex
is apparently out or whack again. Also the northern and southern jet
streams weirdly enough are
interconnecting.
Here
in Pacifica our problem is that our shoreline is melting with apartments buildings and homes literally at
risk of falling into the ocean - and this is before any real sea
level rise has
even set in.
Yet
SLT may not be the worst of it. There are many calamities unfolding
as we warm the planet hotter than it has been in 125,000 years.
Once called the the 'greenhouse effect', the terminology has becomes normalized. 'Climate change' sounds more benign. For last half of
the 2oth century the great existential threat was annihilation by
nuclear war - and it still is. But now a second hubris driven
reality has emerged . We as a species are destroying our planet's
life very capability to sustain the diversity of life as we know it.
But
like our own mortality it is easy to set aside the implications such
an awesomely grave reality and get on with business as usual. After
all life must go on. As with our inability to outlaw nuclear
weapons, confronting global warming becomes just another example of our species' misuse of our several thousand year evolved tool-making genius. Simple tool making morphing over time into worldwide
industrialization coupled with avarice-driven late monopoly
capitalism and then malevolently entangled with our bestial
territorial imperatives, makes for quite difficult nut to crack. Yet
almost all 195 nations big and small some how agreed to try to tackle
the problem. Hence the Paris accords.
But
in the USA a large number of people voted for a political party that
officially opposes doing anything about it and for a president who
believes its all a “hoax”. Even the oil dependent Gulf States
and the Putin-led Russkies signed on to the Paris accords. Yet we
have bowed out. All of the 2016 GOP presidential candidates with one
exception were off-board regarding climate change and facing
up to it. And in the presidential debates it was hardly discussed.
Many
of these fools hide behind fossil fuel company supported researchers
or so-called contrarians who pride themselves on digging up
inconsistencies and errors in the thousands of peer-reviewed research
papers constantly being published. I for one hope they are right
and the whole thing is a grandiose world-wide delusion, the biggest
academic boondoggle in history. Then all the 'greenie' types can go
back to worrying about their traditional concerns – air and water
pollution, habitat loss, pesticides/ herbicides in our food, huge
dead zones at the mouth of rivers, plastic islands the size of Texas
in the world's oceans and so on.
Beyond the Sea Level Rise that coastal communities are facing here's a checklist of what the global warming hoax
mongers claim is also happening:
Disruption
of the Jet Streams and Polar Vortex: Due to
rapid warming of the arctic and less white ice surface to reflect
the solar heat back, the darker water surface is absorbing the
heat and warming. This is affecting high altitudes temperatures
which is in turn is disrupting the northern jet stream causing it to
vary. It now periodically dips enough to cross the equator to
connect with the southern jet stream. This could have
deleterious affects on agriculture by causing colder and warmer
winters. Also the Polar Vortex is periodically dipping south. Whether the erratic jet streams are causing this is not clear.
Ocean
acidification. That
is the name given to the ongoing decrease in the pH balance of the
Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere. About 30–40% of the carbon dioxide released by humans
into the atmosphere dissolves into the oceans, rivers and lake. Too
high an acidic balance impairs shell making in marine life. That's
not good.
Coral
Reef Die-offs. Life sustaining coral reefs are bleaching out
and dying all over the world due to ocean temperature rise. The
Great Barrier Reef off of Australia's east coast has declined by
50% since 1985. Reef health is very important to global fisheries
(which were already in decline due to over fishing).
Sixth
Great Extinction Over
1,400 Endangered Species are threatened by climate
change according to the International Union for Conservation.
The habitats where these species have evolved and thrived over
millenniums are suddenly warmer and less hospitable or there is less
water due to persistent droughts. So many plants and animals are now
threatened that we are now experiencing an extinction rate
comparable to the last five great extinctions going back 425 million
years.
Desertification
As rain pattern shift, marginally productive areas for agriculture
become actual deserts. All of the world's deserts are expanding due
to an increase in prolonged droughts. The horrific Syrian War was
triggered by a prolonged drought.
Forest
fires as a problem worsen The
incidence and intensity of forest fires are worsening. In California
the main fire season now extends into December. Globally fire rage
longer and occur more frequently than in the past due to prolonged
drought conditions.
Storms
frequency and intensity worsen:
Extreme low pressure zones that give rise to hurricanes and
tornadoes are random events. So no single storm or storm season can
be tied to changed climate conditions. But no one can deny extremely
warm waters in Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean are not factors in
the parade of nasty hurricanes and extreme rain events in 2017.
So after seriously wounding Obamacare (which does help many people despite its shortcomings), killing off Net Neutrality (an FCC rule that virtually the entire IT industry vehemently supported), opening the floodgates to corporate maleficence at all levels, and officially halting all Federal efforts to confront the gravest world historical crisis yet - global warming, we now have this rewrite of the tax code, that almost no economist or tax expert supports, ramrodded through to just say "he got something done legislatively".
Let's not give credit for all this
carnage to the Orange One. Let's not give this born-on-third base
opportunistic con man any more credit than he deserves. It is really
the Republican Party to blame. They inadvertently prepared the smelly
nest for this vulture. They set the stage with their negation of
everything Obama (even if it came from their own think tank like health care reform), with their abuse of Senate tradition like the
filibuster, with their own lie promulgating alternate reality news network.
This recent repulsive photo of all of
them with The Great Leader, all bunched up on the podium yucking it
up in their day of infamy as they the pass most regressive tax bill
in US history says it all. History will not be kind to this pack of
greedy fools. Memories of corruption have a half-life longer than
uranium 234. Who can forget the political cartoons from your high
school American history text books of Tammany Hall or Teapot Dome or the
19th Century bearded porcine Gilded Age pols frolicking
in Congress as they stuff their pockets with bribes. The parties
change; sometimes it's the Democrats who are the culprits and it's
earnest Republicans who are trying to forestall a wave of evil
avarice. But make no mistake now its a GOP that has gone rogue.
This recent round of corruption hatched
out of the reptilian egg of the Reagan (Counter)revolution in which
the hard right took over the formerly merely pro-business mostly
moderate post war GOP (Ike, etc) . The hard right Reaganians came after the so-called
'welfare state' with machetes (but only wounded it. Clinton would do
more). The did it by successfully shifting blame for the petering
out of the post war economic boom on taxes not the flat lining
of wages. As the so called "taxpayers revolt" set in across the country taxes were
reduced at all government levels. On the federal level it was
beginning of the end for policies that had successfully contained
capitalism from its worse features. What a masterful propaganda coup it was - blaming
the government and its need for revenue for everything amiss. Governments
which are often bureaucratic and inefficient (because they are imperfect by nature as we all are as humans) made a
perfect fall guy. Of course no one likes to pay taxes (the Beatles
even wrote a song about it, "The Taxman"). But taxes are, alas, a
necessary evil. When not abused by kings and dictators they are the
dues we pay for everything we need collectively, everything that is
not a marketable commodity: roads, bridges, armies, cops, fireman,
libraries - and support for orphans and the old or disabled. But
Reagan's trick was aiming tax resentment at the “welfare
recipients”, those who had been left out of the game – the Black underclass. Even though most people “on welfare” were white, the
fact that many were black conveniently played into the white working
class's deep seated but unacknowledged racism. This public support
for reduction of federal and state revenue government paved the way
for decades of rollback of social services, decay of the
infrastructure and educational facilities as well as a ballooning
federal deficit. But that was only Step 1.
The doleful Reagan years ended in 1988
but the blood was in the water. Smaller govern-ment and less taxes were
the answer. The discredited 19th Century ideology of lassiez faire government, that is
let capitalism run with no restraints, was exhumed. Pure unfettered
capitalism was the ideal to pursue. The idea that there was
a direct relationship between economic efficiency and constraints on 'the
market' gained widespread credibility.
Stage 2 began when the Democrat Party
under Bill Clinton (1992-2000) and the UK Labor Party under Tony Blaire. Instead of boldly putting a stake in the ground and defending the
policies that their respective party's had traditional represented,
they essentially pursued the very same agenda that Reagan and Thatcher had pioneered
but in a moderated version. In short the commandeered the moderate wing of their respective center-right parties driving said parties into full off the deep in into reactionary-land especially the Republican Party. This initiated the era of
'neoliberalism' and put a patina of respectability to the whole
reactionary project initiated by Reagan/Thatcher.
Now we are at Stage 3 of
this malignancy with US Republican Party using the blunt (and
dangerous) tool (and not their preferred one), one Donald Trump, a
kind of world-historical politically accident, to drag the USA back
into the darkest ages of capitalism. Trump is into it only for his
own personal megalomania, while the GOP have a darker agenda. Everything ever done
at the federal level that is environmentally protective, socially
beneficial, globally humane or progressively rational must be destroyed.
One can only hope that the working class, not just the old industrial proletariat types who will never have have the kind of pay and benefits the once they had 30 years ago from the manufacturing sector, but a redefined working class of all who do not rely on financial speculation for their livelihood. There is a vicious class war underway and it must be acknowledged. A newly defined working class must join together and resist this awful juggernaut.
Even as we enjoy the bittersweet days
of late northern California Indian summer it's difficult to continue
to ignore all that is hanging fire. The list is long and awful: an
incompetent loose cannon in the presidency busting everything in
sight with one of his (little) fingers now on the nuke button, the
hard right controlling 2/3's of the state legislatures, both houses
of Congress and the Supreme Court with a “conservative” majority
(with more to come in the judiciary), and operationally what parts of the government
that once worked (EPA, State Dept, DHHS) being eviscerated. And
all this while the impact of climate change relentlessly and
permanently damages our planet's biosphere, the very environment that
we as humans and all the living things round us evolved in (that is
if you accept carbon dating, glacial geology, climatology, biology and so on).
Throughout my life I have watched Republican
politicians manipulate the darker side of human nature to acquire and misuse power (Nixon, Reagan, Bush). And in others times
watched through ineptitude, blindness or just plain bad luck the
Democrats lose power and allow another round of retrenchment
(i.e. Carter's losing his 2nd term, Obama losing both houses of Congress). And then there were those Democrats who blurred the line
between the two Party's traditional values for temporary political
gain as Bill Clinton did. When Democrats opportunistically
commandeer their opponent's positions (rabid 'anti-communism'
or ideological hostility to the so-called 'welfare state') they effectively drive
the Repubs further into heartless hard right whacko-land (where they
are today). The Democratic Party, in trying from the center left to keep
the huge US imperialistic monopoly capitalist apparatus on track by borrowing positions from the right, they often open the door to their more evil twin – the Repubs. The Repubs don't have the disadvantage of trying to do or appear to do the right thing, they just do what works for them to acquire and hold power.The Demos lose identity and credibility when they turn right (Clinton's 'triangulation', Obama's drones) the Repubs gain credibility and respectability when they turn left (Nixon's opening to China, Reagan and SALT).
This dynamic first revealed itself
back in tumultuous 1960s when for whatever reason Cold War warrior
liberal and Democrat Party golden boy President Jack Kennedy suddenly
got assassinated. Who did it remains a mystery – Oswald, the Deep
State, the Mafia. In any case Lyndon B. Johnson, a steely eyed and
ruthless Texas Democrat of the old school (they don't make em like
that anymore), inherited the throne. While steering through Congress
socially progressive and now popular programs like Medicare (over the
abject resistance of the Repubs) he also embraced anti-Communist and Cold
War domino theory ideology, thus managing to sink us into the hellish
quagmire of Viet Nam. Consequently most of my generation would never
see the Democratic Party as a totally progressive entity again and many would become too alienated to ever vote for Democrats again, others
became permanently apolitical while others even metamorphosed into
Republicans. In fact in the presidential election of 1968 most of us couldn't even
hold our noses and vote for Democrat Hubert Humphrey thus allowing
the reptilian Republican Richard Nixon to win almost by default. And
to make matters worse in the next election, as reviled as many were
by Nixon, the Democratic Party (allied with the Washington
establishment and the mainstream media) essentially sabotaged their own
candidate, George McGovern, because of his strong center-left
position. This allowed Nixon to again waltz back in by a landslide.
This even as the Watergate scandal was already emerging from the
muck.
And now the Democrats want us to
believe they are on the side of the angels because they, too, find
Donald J. Trump patently loathsome. What thinking person wouldn't as
he as sits on his golden throne with his weird yellow hair trying to
rule like some Louis XIV wannabe? The Demos have a lot of
nerve after foisting their worse presidential candidate on us his
since Fritz Mondale ran against St. Ronnie in '84. With shitty choices like
that what can we expect from poorly educated, working class
seat-of-their-pants voters (who's economic situation now seems to be in
permanent decline). And then there is “the entertainment industry
for liberals”: NY Times, Washington Post, CNN and CSNBC. CNN and
CSNBC which both made a bundle giving candidate Trump unwarranted publicity and free airtime (and now endlessly lambaste the Orange
One). Then he was both provocative and ridiculous – easy to make
fun of (and money off of). Now it's not so funny as everything good
is turned into a filthy vortex of fecal matter and spins down into
the sewer.
Bernie Sanders may not have been the
perfect candidate – too old, too easy to red-bait, too strident,
too much ranting and raving. But he was honest and earnest, and most
importantly not taking big bucks from the robber barons on Wall
Street as was her highness HRC. Also he had a progressive
agenda that was easy to understand, that wasn't all
mush and happy talk. Hadn't the Clintons had their day in the
sun? People wanted change. Was the Demo bench is so shallow that
they had to look to creating a ruling dynasty to stay in power? The
Repubs had the good sense (and internal party democracy) to early on
eject their dynastic heir apparent, Jeb, even as their big money boys
loved him. Of course the Repubs got theirs as the neophyte pol, the
Orange Ogre, blasted his way to the finish line leaving the other
GOP stable of irksome candidates looking like horse turds on the barn floor.
As we know from Virginia's recent
election the tide may be turning. Trump and his mischief has
apparently come to the belated attention of people who usually never bother to
vote. That must be why, while Trump's ratings are at a historical low,
most mainstream Repubs are reportedly still standing by him despite their embarrassment at his crudity. Yet in Virginia the Repubs still got trounced. The non-voters
must have come out of the woodwork. But in addition to waking up to
Trump, they seem also to realize that the Republican Party is not
their friend. The GOP agenda is both morally
and pragmatically wrong. With or without Trump the GOP is a
supreme menace to the average Joe be his income lower, middle or upper middle.
The Demos on the other hand still want
to keep the whole banker run capitalist order in good working order but
also allow for a modicum of social and economic justice. Managing
that is, of course, always a problem. But the Repubs don't have that worry. They could give a shit about
anything but their short term goal of satisfying the donor class.
They always, despite what they say, want to redirect as much wealth
as possible to the top tiers who already own and control
everything in sight - all the global corporations, financial
institutions, prestigious colleges and universities, foundations and
so on. 'Tax cuts 'n small government', is their perennial mantra and hobby
horse. But in terms of managing the economy responsibly, sending more money to the top income tiers does nothing for
what economists call 'aggregate demand' as the rich already have
everything they need - materially anyway. So all the tax cuts do is
make the rich a little richer while further increasing the national
debt which already is like 16 trillion! At least the Demos try to
keep things in line capitalism-wise by making sure the money goes to
things (social services, supplementary payments, infrastructure
spending) that will wind up as disposable income and enhance
aggregate demand – the only thing will lead to more investment and
thus economic growth (if that's even good). The Repubs really need to
go back and take Econ 101 again.
With only a craven pack of self serving
opportunists (and a few generals – a bad sign) surrounding him
along with his loyal nub of hard core true believers still drinking
their Trumpian kool aid, while Mueller's army of legal beagles nosing
in every nook and cranny of his sordid financial affairs and Ruskkie assistance to his campaign, it may be only be a matter of time
before Humpty Dumpty falls off his wall. But be careful what you
wish for. Without the Orange Ogre in the way, the Repubs will have a
more streamlined (and blog free) time machine to take us all the way
back to the good old the 1890s.
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This most recent misstep by the Orange
Ogre is his worst yet. In trying to pander to his limited base he has
really stepped into some deep doo doo. Everyone right, left and
center is now up in arms as he clumsily ends up on the wrong side
history.
The sequence of events seems to be as
as follows. A liberal college town, Charlottesville, in the premier secessionist state of Virginia and the home state of Confederate hero
Robert E. Lee had recently re-purposed a city park from from being a
monument to the Confederacy by changing its name from Robert E. Lee
park to Emancipation Park - no doubt to the ire of local Republicans.
Next on the agenda the statue of General Lee was to be removed.
The Internet fueled Alt-Right got wind
of this 'outrage' and used it as a rallying cry to round up a rabid
pack of bitterly aggrieved white boyz. A permit was obtained to
hold a totally fascist looking looking night time march to the park
complete with torches all wearing white shirts. Several hundred showed up from all over the
nearby red state archipelago to demonstrate their solidarity to
this high minded cause. Video footage of the march could have been
filmed in Germany in the 1930s. A small badly outnumbered band of
local lefties probably from the college were there at the park to
meet (and greet) this hoard of angry white guys and a few gals.
This spectacle was bad enough but it merely set the stage for the
next day.. Many of these same high minded torch carriers, and
others since it was Saturday, also showed up all 'armed for bear'.
Many if not most seemed to have worn helmets, carried medieval
shields and cudgels. All were chanting industrial strength racist and anti-Semitic vitriol for all to hear especially the
counter-protestors. These counter-protestors for some reason were
opposed to an openly fascist march through their home town. Many
were also wearing helmets knowing a violent confrontation was
possible. This while the local police stood by enjoying watching
the action. And fighting indeed did occur. That was bad enough but
then later as things were winding down in a spontaneous act of
insanity some testosterone driven overwrought 20 year old, a member of
one the shield carrying factions, decided to drive his car ISIS
style into the ranks of the evil “socialists and Marxists' thereby
killing one woman and injured 19 others. All of this was captured in
by all means of video devices and cameras.
What at mess. Does all of this maybe
have some relation to the Trump Presidency? Clearly the ball was in
DJT's court like it or not. So what how does the Orange One respond? After all these alt-right people are among his most devout and
loyal supporters? In any case any normal sane politician would disassociate himself from this political devil incarnate, openly
declared fascists and racists, even if he secretly agreed with
them. But not 'the Donald'. First by the seat of pants he reacts
by saying he sees 'both sides as equally at fault'
,which caused the press to nearly fall out of their uncomfortable
folding chairs. Then dialing it back a little the next day he issues
a properly scripted response, only the next back to go back to his
original position - but more forcefully.
This was not a so-called free speech
issue where an incendiary right wing speaker is sent into an epicenter
of Trumpian opposition like the UC Berkeley campus as an inducement
to hard left anarcho types and anti-Trump hotheads to raise hell. This is not merely a test
of the limits of free speech visa vie the intolerant elements of the
left. This was a staged fascist/KKK event designed to further
their cause. And they believed DJT would have their back. And
apparently he does.
Trump apparently feels he must stand
with his rabid base even as the damage to his failing, incoherent,
disorganized presidency is significant.
Is it unraveling? It seems even Rush Limbaugh along with the editors of Briebart
are starting to have their doubts about The Trump . With the Orange One now daily
hammering his erstwhile loyalist and early supporter, his confederate
Attorney General Jeff Beauergard Sessions, the hard right is becoming
as dismayed as the rest of us.
Rush has recently said:
“But it’s also kind of, you know, a little bit
discomforting, unseemly for Trump to go aftersuch a loyal
supporter this way.”
And in the lead story yesterday
at Briebart.com they opine:
President
Trump’s decision Tuesday to attack Attorney General Jeff Sessions
over Sessions’ position” on Hillary Clinton’s various
scandals only serves to highlight Trump’s own hypocrisy on the
issue - and is likely to fuel concerns from his base who see Sessions
at the best hope to fulfill Trump’s immigration policies.
Daily the
"Fake News", the only news we have when you think
about it, has more grist for their mills than they have
milling equipment to handle it. Other news is being
badly neglected as Trump keeps flailing around busting everything in sight making himself such a target rich environment that the MSM can't resist it, overloading our circuits with it . Meanwhile Trump's erstwhile allies in the GOP are hard are at
work trying to step on their own you whats by eliminating health care
for millions.
The basic fact is that for the Establishment that both thevTrump
supporters and disaffected lefties alike oppose, the Russkies are theenemy. This both the Demos and Repub parties agree on if nothing else. For
Trump, his family and his sleazy pack of cohorts to resist a
completing airing of all things Russo-Trumpian makes make one suspect they
must indeed be hiding something either disgustingly sordid, highly illegal or treasonous. There must be something very combustible producing all that
smoke and causing The Trump to cashier and/or bad mouth his top dogs in his own Justice Dept.
If
all it, as Trumpian loyalists lamely contend, merely political theater and falsehoods conjured up through leaks by lingering pro-Obama "deep state" CIA employees, etc., a big “nothing burger”, then Mr. Donald: 'Tear down that wall' and let sun shine in. Otherwise it
will continue to cripple your whole aggressive anti-"libtard"
agenda that is so beloved by your rural and rust belt brigades.
