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They want to destroy America, and impose a dictatorship on us.
Will they succeed?
Not so long ago, I would have automatically said Hell, no, but now I'm not so sure.
I'm scared.
I'm sure 2024 + 2025 are going to be years of election-related violence like we've never seen in our history.
They may make the January 6 insurrection and the rioting at the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention look like playground arguments
What price is America going to have to pay to hold on to freedom in 2025 and moving forward?
How many people are going to die?
I was Horribly Wrong in 2020
I can hardly believe it myself now, but in 2020 I voted for the orange motherfucker and every other Republican on the ballot.
Before the election, when I heard news commentators speculate that if he lost, Trump would refuse to vacate the White House, I just thought, oh, those Trump-hating liberals. Of course he'll leave if he loses.
Obviously, January 6 proved me wrong.
Trump is a dangerous, putrid boil on the asshole of humanity.
He did finally leave, but absolutely without grace, without courtesy, without respect for the office of President of America, the Constitution or us voters.
Also without honor, without dignity or even simple human decency.
Trump cares nothing for human values - only himself and his money.
What will happen in January 2025?
I'm half-scared to death.
I plan to vote, but votes may not matter. Trump and his neo-Fascist buddies are planning to take over whether they win OR NOT.
First, the Good News
Trump is not Hitler.
Really, he's not even a true fascist.
True fascists want a country where the government controls EVERYTHING and everybody.
Unions.
Youth groups.
Colleges and universities.
Businesses.
Media.
Churches.
And, of course, it dictates everything people say and think.
Despite the common misperception, fascism is NOT big businesses controlling the government. In true fascism, the government controls big businesses.
If you happen to own a few big factories, a truly fascist government will let you get rich by making what the government wants made, not what you want to manufacture.
But Trump doesn't care about making America Great Again - he just wants to make himself all-powerful so he can take revenge on everybody he hates. Like his buddies, President Xi of China and Vlad Putin. He wants the same power to jail, torture and execute his enemies - at will.
He pisses on the rule of law.
So, it's not like I'm saying Trump is a nice guy. He's not. He's not evil in the same way as Hitler.
But he is evil.
He does say things similar to fascists, including Hitler.
As I write, he has just told everybody what he'll do if he wins re-election/seizes power:
* Evict millions of immigrants.
* Set up camps to house millions of people he calls "vermin." (This absolutely does echo Nazi language. They compared Jews to rats.)
* Tell the Justice Department to indict all his political opponents.
* Use the United States Army to break up civil demonstrations. (He whines and whines about his First Amendment right to insult justices and prosecutors and to threaten witnesses, but if he takes over he's going to destroy the First Amendment for the rest of us. He's utterly and ruthlessly hypocritical.)
These things absolutely sound much like the Third Reich.
It's no accident. His first wife Ivanka revealed Trump kept just two books: his own THE ART OF THE DEAL and a collection of speeches by Hitler.
Trump makes many of the same appeals as Hitler did to his followers:
* Politicians who believe in democracy and freedom are allowing communists to destroy the country.
* White people (Hitler said "Aryans") are being taken over by people of color, along with Jews and Muslims.
* America was great in the past, but not now, because of the liberals, African-Americans, LGBTQ people, Democrats, journalists and on and on. Hitler and the Nazis evoked past periods when Germany was a strong country.
Trump plays to his cultists' feelings of being betrayed by the loss of the American dream, their sense of entitlement and loss of white privilege, of hating "liberals" and hating everybody they believe has received power that rightfully belongs to white people.
They see America changing, and they don't like it.
Trump is Key to a 2025 Insurrection
As I write, Trump is by far the leading candidate to run as the Republican Party's nominee for President in 2024.
Barring a huge new development, he's going to be the candidate - even if he's in jail by then - which he might be.
He might win.
Even if he doesn't win in the Electoral College, he and his followers plan - I have absolutely no doubt - to launch another insurrection.
The January 2025 one may be much much bigger than the January 2021 attempted coup d'etat.
If you think Trump and the rest of the MAGA cultists care about your vote, you shouldn't have graduated from kindergarten.
They don't care whether you vote for him or against him, because they plan to take over the government.
No matter what.
If General Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan came back from the dead, MAGA would call them Republicans-in-Name-Only (Rhinos).
Dictators Need Help
Hitler didn't personally set the Reichstag fire, re-militarize Germany and murder six million Jews.
Trump can do the evil things he does because he finds people to obey him.
Remember, he was born rich rich rich. He's never had a real job. He's probably never even made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for himself. That's what servants are for. Without brown-nosers, he'd be totally useless.
Who wants to help this creepy asshole grind his bootheel into the face of America?
Unfortunately, lots of people - and they even have the gall to call themselves patriots.
1. Skinhead Thugs
These are young, white, (mostly) men alienated from society at large.
Best source of information:
The Hate Next Door: Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy by Matson Browning
White Supremacy is their big thing. They absolutely idolize Adolph Hitler even though Hitler would have murdered all of the ones who aren't strictly Aryan.
(We in America tend to lump all white people together, but the racial theories Hitler believed in subdivided white Europeans. Yes, he believed Germans and other Aryans were the Master Race, but he planned to kill all Russians and other Slavs even though to us they're just as white - as well of course as Jews and people of color.)
They're dangerous, but only on street-level.
They love to fight, both with people of color and rival white supremacy gangs.
They love to post the most offensive comments they can to web sites such as 4chan.
When people call them on this shit, they whine about their First Amendment rights just like Trump - but just like Trump they want to take away everybody else's rights.
When they become totally unhinged, they post lengthy rambling manifestoes on 4chan, grab their guns and go kill African-Americans at Bible study, Mexicans at Walmart and LGBTQ folks at a nightclub.
By themselves, they're no threat to the United States government.
Unfortunately, they're not by themselves.
2. Organized Hate Groups Run by Adults
They don't describe themselves as "hate" groups, but make their hate clear.
They disguise themselves as respectable people who just happen to run "conservative" organizations.
They wear business suits, not wife-beater t-shirts. Leather Gucci shoes instead of Doc Martens.
They hide their "88" tattoos under their Armani suits.
("H" is the 8th letter of the alphabet, so to neo-Nazis "88" is short for "Heil Hitler.")
These people organize politically at a much more sophisticated level than the skins.
However, in the above book, Matson points out the skinhead groups all had older men who didn't participate in the violence, but who financed the skinheads’ activities. By themselves, skinheads are usually broke.
However, these groups remained outside the mainstream of American politics until Trump poisoned the Republican Party. Until Trump, no American president sucked up to White Supremacists.
Although we've ALWAYS been a multiracial, multi-ethnic and multicultural society, these assholes want to kill or deport everybody who's not white - plus Jews and Muslims.
By partnering with Trump, who increasingly seeks out their support (using the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to try to take over the government), they hope to impose their warped vision of America on the rest of us.
They've been organizing for decades:
Think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation.
The Federalist Society.
The Moral Majority.
The Eagle Forum.
Many more, some of them tightly focused on one issue and some very broad.
All of them think they have the right to control this country instead of the voters and our government - and way too many elected lawmakers and court judges belong to these neo-Fascist groups who want to destroy the American way of life.
The most "respectable" ones call themselves merely "conservative," and have billionaires financing them. So they put a great deal of emphasis on allowing businesses to do whatever they wish, including NOT pay taxes.
Some are more blatantly neo-Fascist, and care more about White Supremacy than Big Business.
This book is about how the son of one prominent White Supremacist turned his life around. That's an interesting story, and so is his white supremacist father.
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow
Many books cover how neo-Fascism - calling itself "conservatism" - has become so powerful in America since the 60’s.
To Be Continued
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