TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY REPRESENT A PORTRAIT IN FASCISM

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree 

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TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY REPRESENT A PORTRAIT IN FASCISM 

 

 
The bottom line is clear - due to the changing demographics that predict the White majority will soon be in the minority, Donald Trump and his Republican Party no longer support the ideal of American democracy. Democracy is no longer of any use to them. Since they no longer see the American ideal as supportive of White privilege, they no longer equate patriotism with America, but with White supremacy; and since the teachings of Jesus is inconsistent with giving them a leg up, they no longer associate Christianity with Jesus Christ, but with Donald Trump. Thus, they now see America as “One nation under Trump".
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Slate just reported in an article entitled, A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset, that Trump "helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016." The article goes on to say, "Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States. That’s been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s assessment of the 2020 election. The report, drafted by the CIA, the FBI, and several other agencies, was released in unclassified form on Tuesday, but it was presented in classified form on Jan. 7. In other words, it was compiled, written, and edited during Trump’s administration. It destroys his lies about the election, and it exposes him as a Russian asset."

FORMER REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE SAYS TRUMP IS A FASCIST

Since Trump lost the 2020 election, Republican states have introduced no less than 250 voter suppression laws. According to a Washington Post Report, “In 43 states across the country, Republican lawmakers have proposed at least 250 laws that would limit [voting by] mail, early in-person and Election Day voting, with such constraints as stricter ID requirements, limited hours, or narrower eligibility to vote absentee, according to data compiled as of Feb. 19 by the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice. [And] even more proposals have been introduced since then.” 

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In addition, Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said that the insurrectionists who attacked the United States capitol were merely people who love this country. He said, "Even though those thousands of people were marching on the Capitol were trying to pressure people like me to vote the way they wanted me to vote, I knew those were people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn’t concerned." Then he went on to say, “Now, had the tables been turned — and Joe, this is going to get me in trouble — had the tables been turned and [former] President Donald Trump had won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned.” 

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What kind of mentality does this man possess? First, he says, the insurrectionists were trying to “pressure people like me to vote the way they wanted me to vote," yet, he says, they “love this country, truly respect law enforcement,” and “would never do anything to break the law.” Well, what does he call rebelling against the United States to pressure legislators to vote the way they wanted them to vote and injuring and killing law enforcement officers in the process!!!? Isn’t that against the law? But from his point of view, as long as they were good ole America-lovin' bigots and not “Black Lives Matter or anti-fascist protesters,” he wasn’t concerned. So, exactly what would these insurrectionists have to do for Sen. Johnson to consider it a violation of the law and become concerned – lynch the wrong person? 

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And the worst part about all of this is, Donald Trump’s former attorney, Sidney Powell, admits that the “Big Lie” that led to the insurrection was just that – a Big Lie. 

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Law & Crime reported, “Facing more than $1.3 billion in liabilities over her post-election conspiracy theories, lawyer Sidney Powell told a judge that the defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems filed against her earlier this year should be dismissed because ‘no reasonable person’ could believe that her well-publicized comments about an international plot against former President Donald Trump were “statements of fact.” In other words, the people who believed Trump's claims had to be less than intelligent. So now that they're under the gun, she’s calling the Trump insurrectionists stupid. Thus, the Trump faction is not only disloyal to the nation, they’re not even loyal to one another. 

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So it is clear that Donald Trump and his band of motely lunatics are nothing short of American traitors. They did everything in their power to overthrow this government and shove Trump down our throats, whether we wanted him or not. Thus, if America is anything close to what it professes to be, Donald Trump will be America's first former President to go to prison. He conspired, carried out, and refused to intervene in an insurrection against the United States. 

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CNN reported that "In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the US Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did." And prior to the insurrection, Trump's two calls to Georgia election officials alone, demonstrates the depth of his desperation, corruption, and gross disregard for American ideals. So, Trump is totally corrupt, and was willing to overthrow our government to remain in power.
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And Trump is perfectly symbolic of the Republican Party as a whole. He's so symbolic, in fact, that I now refer to the party as the "Retrumplicans".  They’re recklessly dangerous, and un-American fascists. These people couldn’t care less about either the country, or the American people. All they’re concerned about is their bigotry, power, greed, and serving their own interests - and as we’ve seen, like Trump, they’re willing to go to any length to obtain their goals. This has always been a conservative trait, but only now under Trump, has it become so blatantly pronounced, clumsy, and out in the open. In my article, Conservatives Have Always Been the Enemy of American Democracy, I point out the following:  

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Conservatives have always been known for walking around with flag pins in their lapels and spewing their "bone-spur" brand of patriotism. Going all the way back to the very founding of this nation they’ve always used false patriotism and deception as weapons to promote a self-serving agenda to undermine the interests of the average American. As a result of that attitude, they have always been the most insidious enemies of American democracy. And for precisely that reason, when our founding fathers spoke of American enemies, they inserted the phrase, “both foreign and domestic.”  
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When conservatives first arrived on these shores, they brought with them the European notion of class distinction. They have always suffered from the distinctly undemocratic attitude that the only inherent value of the average American was as servants to cater to the whims of the upper class. Alexander Hamilton, one of this nation’s conservative founding fathers, believed that the rich and "wellborn" should be given a permanent share in government. He said: 

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“All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people…. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government.” 
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Hamilton supported a lifetime appointment of the President (after being selected by congress, instead of the people). Can you just imagine that - Donald Trump FOR LIFE!!!?  But America dodged that bullet during the Federalist Convention that took place between May 14 and September 17, 1787. 
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Since most of the founding fathers came to America to escape the aristocratic class system in Europe, Hamilton’s desire to preserve the class system was resoundingly defeated in favor of an unfettered democracy, but that didn’t mean that people of Hamilton’s point of view would quietly go away. Instead, they became the conservative coalition, and lowered their profile as blatant aristocrats, but they continued to pursue their agenda by using their wealth, power, and various other strategies to divide the people to achieve their goals, and that’s what we see today. As we speak, they're currently in the process of trying to disenfranchise large segments of American voters.
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MITCH MCCONNELL'S
CONSTITUENTS

That accounts for why conservatives always feign anger, claim victimization as they victimize others, and tend to specialize in obstructionism and division. It’s also why the American people ALWAYS suffer under conservative governance. If you ever want to know what conservatives are up to, simply listen to what they're accusing others of doing. They fought like rabid dogs to get a tax cut for the rich, and then they fought just as hard against providing relief for the America people during the Covid - 19 pandemic. When it came to helping the average American, all of a sudden they became concerned about the national debt. And in an act that says it all, Republican senator, Ted “Cancun” Cruz went on vacation to a warmer climate while his constituents were freezing to death without utilities during a severe snowstorm.   .

The current Republican Party is made up of three factions with confluent interests. First, there’s the rich and powerful. They control the party - or, at least, used to control the party. Then, there’s the White supremacists. They’re the party’s militant army and the people who attacked our capitol. And the third faction is the gullible, or the rank-and-file Republican who’s bought into the rhetorical nonsense of the first two factions. They've been convinced that anything other than giving to the rich constitutes socialism. But now, the party is facing a crisis. Under Donald Trump, the second faction, the White militants, have wrested control of the party away from the rich and powerful, and that creates a problem for America as a whole.

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Thus, the nation has got to get a handle on this situation immediately. If we don’t, the militants are only going to become increasingly more aggressive and we're going to have a second Civil War on our hands.  So, the first thing we must do is cut the head off the movement. It's essential that we charge Donald Trump with insurrection, along with every other crime he’s guilty of, and throw him in prison. That’ll serve to reestablish the rule of law, and send a clear message to all of the budding Donald Trumps in the wings.

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If we had sent Nixon, Reagan, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to prison, we wouldn’t be having the problem we’re having today. Our failure to act in those cases set a precedent. It says if you’re rich and powerful enough, you’re free to ignore the law. There's a mountain of evidence that Reagan made a deal with the Iranians to hold American hostages until he won the election, George W. Bush engaged in torturing prisoners, and Dick Cheney even outed a CIA agent - and they all did it with complete impunity.
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Note that these gross abuses of American ideals are always committed by Republicans, because they lack limits. They'll do anything to promote their agenda, whatever that agenda might be, and their current agenda is to destroy our democracy, because it threatens their stranglehold on society.
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Thus, it is essential that we get to the bottom of who all conspired – including the people in congress and the Pentagon - to make the capitol insurrection possible. And finally, we must round up all who participated in the insurrection and throw the book at them all. 
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All of these people engaged in treason against the United States, and we can’t afford to take their actions so lightly. The insurrectionists weren't just "good people" who got overzealous and out of hand, they are our domestic enemy, and we must fight them with just as much zeal as we would a foreign enemy.
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Donald Trump, as mindless as he is, has the potential to become Hitler reincarnate. Look at the violence he's spawned against Asian Americans, and he's flooded our government with his minions. While Trump may be lacking in personal intelligence, his ally, Vladimir Putin, has proven himself to have the intelligence to run our government from Russia. He's been doing it for past four years. Look at how Trump has tried to direct our attention away from Putin's malevolent actions against the United States, including placing a bounty on the heads of our troops.
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Donald Trump will do anything to attain and maintain power, and he undoubtedly has delusional visions of joining Putin in ruling the world. That's why he's so hostile towards China, while so oblivious to all the atrocities committed by Putin. That's also why he tried to establish a secret "back-channel" of communicating with Russia. He tried it twice - once through Jared Kushner, and a second time using Erik Prince in a secret meeting in the Seychelles. The reason for that is China and our own intelligence community was Putin and Trump's only obstacles to world domination - at least, as Trump saw it. That explains why he tried to get the intelligence community to declassify their intelligence for former Attorney General Bill Barr. He wanted to see how much they knew. 
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So, again, it is essential that our justice system make a glaring example of Trump. We must break him financially, humiliate him to destroy his cult-leader image, and make him spend the rest of his life in prison to contemplate the damage he's done to this nation - and even that, would be an act of mercy, because the founding fathers would have executed him, just like he tried to do to his own Vice President.
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Donald Trump makes Benedict Arnold look like a piker, yet, we're allowing him to sit up at Mar-A-Lago playing the part of a mover and shaker while playing golf in complete comfort. That reinforces his image of a leader in exile. He should be in chains - or worse.

Eric L. Wattree 
Http://wattree.blogspot.com 

Ewattree@Gmail.com 
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA) 
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.