It's January 6th, 2021 All Over Again
Trump again calls for violence in Iowa - is SCOTUS listening?
We can only hope that SCOTUS is listening. Donald Trump repeated the same sentiments he did three years ago when he called for the thousands gathered in front of the White House to march down to the Capitol Building and “Fight like hell to take back our country.”
“We will fight for America like no one has ever fought before,” Trump said at the rally, held in advance of this month’s Iowa caucuses. “2024 is our final battle (Trump Calls on Supporters).”
Can it get any more surreal than it is getting? Trump, almost like a stand-up terrorist warming up a crowd of sheepherders in the mountains of Pakistan, went on to call voters in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and other cities with heavy Black turnout “bags of crap” who are crooked as hell and “know how to cheat.” His public service announcement ten months before the next presidential election was that his supporters should cast their votes at the polls and then “not leave.”
Many are already calling this voter intimidation. If SCOTUS had any doubts about where this orange nightmare sits on the F-scale Test — this is a test that was devised in 1947 to determine the authoritarian tendencies of a person — Trump’s calls for election day violence later this year should dispel them.
His comments arrive after he told supporters at a previous Iowa rally to “guard the vote” during the election.
“You should go into Detroit and you should go into Philadelphia and you should go into some of these places, Atlanta, and you should go into some of these places and we’ve got to watch those votes when they come in,” the former president said last month (Trump Calls on Supporters).”
If anyone does what Trump is suggesting, then they will be arrested — just like what happened the last time he conned them into breaking the law. How many Americans are sitting in prison or have had their lives ruined thanks to Trump’s “it’s all about me” approach to life? Of course, when there is violence on election day in November, Trump will say that the words he spoke today in Iowa were said in “Jest.”
Mainstream Republicans, who are falling like dominoes before Trump as they offer their support for the man who seems likely to win the party’s nomination, will again disregard these calls for armed violence and voter intimidation: “He meant nothing by those words. He can’t possibly be responsible for some bad apples, who most likely were not Trump supporters but Antifa.”
We all know how this chapter unfolds. It’s Groundhog’s Day all over again.