Giving Up On Trump 2-5-2021

[ I am back working through my prison journal. It is out of order… Well, the order is as I have opened boxes. The date in the title is the date it was written. I hope this is not confusing. What you are reading is what you get for your tax dollars. sch 10/11/2025] 

 I am giving up on Mary L. Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Simon & Schuster, 2020). Not because I disagree with her description of her uncle. I do not. She made her case on NPR's Fresh Air. You people elected a nut job President, not me. The Electoral College failed its purpose. We got lucky that Donald J. Trump was as incompetent in his attempt at being an autocrat as he had proven himself a businessman. Nor is it that I think his dangerousness is at an end. Not with much of the Republican Party thinking the party is Trump's, that being a Republican fealty to Trump. We have a wide swath of this country needing, wanting, worshiping a Führer. So much for the self-reliant, independent-minded Americans. Who knew so much of America needed a man to worship. No, I have just impatience and little time in this world and I no longer want to wallow in the filth that America wallowed in - and want nothing to do with those who cannot get enough wallowing. I wish all the luck in the world to Dr. Trump, and a plague on the rest of the family.

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[And then you fools went and reelected him, so he has another chance at becoming America's first dictator. From The Label Is Wrong (Sheila Kennedy):

 The problem with labeling our reactionary Court as conservative is that such a label obscures reality. It’s akin to the misuse of other labels like Left-wing and socialism, but it’s arguably more dangerous, because it makes a very real threat–an ahistorical judicial deviation from the rule of law in favor of a very unAmerican authoritarianism– seem like a normal part of America’s ever-shifting political environment. We’ve always had courts and political parties that are properly understood to be more conservative or more liberal, but by mis-labeling this radical Supreme Court as “conservative,” we minimize the extent to which it has deviated from the political and constitutional norms to which both liberal and genuinely conservative courts have adhered.

 If this Court was truly conservative, America wouldn’t be in the midst of an authoritarian coup.

Ep 939: Huckleberry Finn And The Sins Of MAGA 

 

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