Trump Republicans Are Fueling the Next January 6th

They call it the 'weaponization of the justice department' but it's really just prosecuting a criminal

Photo by Jan Antonin Kolar on Unsplash

There are traitors among us. They call themselves Americans, but they can’t be. The things they are calling for and the threats they are making resemble those of the Nazis not long ago in Germany. These are the traitors and lunatics who now make it their business to threaten judges, FBI agents, and anyone involved in prosecuting Donald Trump.

As the prosecutions of Mr. Trump have accelerated, so too have threats against law enforcement authorities, judges, elected officials, and others. The threats, in turn, are prompting protective measures, a legal effort to curb his angry and sometimes incendiary public statements, and renewed concern about the potential for an election campaign in which Mr. Trump has promised “retribution” to produce violence (Threats and Concerns Increase).

I won’t ask how we got to this place. The answer lies in the iteration of the Republican Party since 1980. The great communicator moved into the White House when America was still pretty secure in being America despite the loss in Vietnam and the 1960s protests. The checks and balances were in place, and an overall belief that the government could do some good for the people still existed.

There was not a national obsession with wealth creation at any cost. I am not saying that the pursuit of financial happiness and more wasn’t a preoccupation of most Americans, but I am saying that it wasn’t a fire the government itself was openly stoking. The government somehow managed to ensure that the class separation wasn’t entirely out of control — like today.

This happened thanks to both the policies of Reagan and, even more importantly, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan. The era of Life Styles of the Rich and Famous was launched. If you didn’t want to become as wealthy as humanely possible, America regarded you as broken or subversive. Even though they don’t know it, most Americans aren’t wealthy and never will be. It’s not just physically impossible for them to become more well-off; it’s also economically and, more importantly, politically impossible.

Republicans don’t want the ranks of the rich to swell because that would limit their take of the pie, and it would crowd their clubs with hordes of unwanted and uncultured goons. Every policy enacted by Republicans since 1980 has ensured that the working class falls further behind the wealthy. The wealth in the hands of the top 10 percent is more than that of the bottom 80 percent, and the gap grows. The only remedy Republicans offer to address this income inequality is tax cuts for the rich, which exacerbates the problem. When Republican voters start to catch on, the party trots out the culture wars and gets them all riled up.

This process, this degradation of the hearts and souls of the conservative-voting Americans, has been going on for 40 years. So, should we be surprised that things are happening that have only occurred in the most tragically fascist and authoritarian of regimes? No, we can’t.

In April, before federal prosecutors indicted Mr. Trump, one survey showed that 4.5 percent of American adults agreed with the idea that the use of force was “justified to restore Donald Trump to the presidency.” Two months later, after the first federal indictment of Mr. Trump, that figure surged to 7 percent (Threats and Concerns Increase).

Republicans in Congress are adding fuel to the fire

Donald Trump is a criminal. He has broken countless laws, and for over two centuries, the country accepted that no one person is above the law. Of course, people have lived their entire lives above the law, but those exceptions proved that in the United States, you will fall sooner or later if you consistently subvert the nation’s core values. We never had a president who so openly flaunted those values and the law itself. He regarded his position as nothing less than a mob boss, and the laws were what he decided they were — at least, that is what he wanted.

On more than one occasion, Trump turned the power of the presidency against private citizens simply because he needed a victim for his latest caper. He needed a living person at whom he could hurl invective and so turned the lives of these American citizens into rallying points for his incoherent followers. All of what he did and continues to do is not for his followers, not for America, but for himself. None of these crimes or repugnant behavior turned the majority of Republican voters against him.

Donald Trump launched the nation into the abyss on January 6th, and he is still the frontrunner for his party’s nomination in 2024. His lead is 39 points higher than Ron DeSantis.

Why is this happening? Because the Republican establishment, right-wing media led by Fox News, and the majority of Republicans in Congress have completely normalized his behavior. Maybe he got a little emotional occasionally, but everything he did was always in the country’s best interests. So, by investigating or arresting him, Democrats are using their political power to crush an opponent they fear could win.

Yes, Democrats are using their political power to stop Donald Trump because Donald Trump is destroying America. Donald Trump does not stand for the values that made our nation great. He is a historically ignorant man whose only concern is that they “like me.” He judges world tyrants by whether or not they show him respect and deference. How often did we hear him say, “I like him because it seems he likes me.” All of this behavior, this on-display mental illness, has been deemed by the majority of Republicans in Congress as being perfectly normal, if not charming.

And so, the enemy of America is not Donald Trump but anyone trying to tear him down. If they are trying to wreck Trump, they are trying to destroy America. This is the rationale that drives these sad, sick, ignorant people.

Mr. Trump has denied promoting violence. He says that his comments are protected by the First Amendment right to free speech and that the proposed gag order is part of a far-ranging Democratic effort to destroy him personally and politically.

“Joe Biden has weaponized his Justice Department to go after his main political opponent — President Trump,” said Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the former president (Threats and Concerns Increase).

Members of Congress echo those words, “weaponizing the justice department.” Donald Trump is a criminal. A judge in New York just today declared this to be a judicial fact.

A New York judge ruled on Tuesday that Donald J. Trump persistently committed fraud by inflating the value of his assets and stripped the former president of control over some of his signature New York properties.

The surprising decision by Justice Arthur F. Engoron is a major victory for Attorney General Letitia James in her lawsuit against Mr. Trump, effectively deciding that no trial was needed to determine that he had fraudulently secured favorable terms on loans and insurance deals (Judge Rules Trump Committed Fraud).

There is no reason to doubt that Trump won’t be found guilty in all other cases against him now moving through the courts. Donald weaponized the presidency, and his target was America. For that audacity of such an undertaking, he deserves life in prison. Suppose someone is stupid and gullible enough not to understand these simple facts taught in 9th-grade social studies. In that case, they should have their right to citizenship pulled until they take another civics course at their nearby community college — goddamn dummies.

You embarrass yourselves out there protesting with Trump paraphernalia and precious little confidence-building Ar-15s strapped across your backs.