An Old Facebook Post from June 30, 2020


 I was looking through some stuff on my Blog, editing etc. and found this thing from June 30. Never for one single minute have I been shocked at anything Trump has done, then or since. Why? Because this has been the "gestalt" from which I've proceeded from the beginning.

"You have all seen the Paranoia and Rage of Trump over the past 3 years, and its progressive worsening. You have read his accusations of Treason against multiple people, Bolton, Obama, Black Lives Matters, Hillary Clinton, and others. He has even mused that in the "old days" traitors were executed. He has attempted to Nationalize the Police under the Military, using the 1807 Insurrection Act as his "legal Justification". He wanted to deploy the Military to shoot protesters in the street outside the White House.Thankfully, the Military leaders who refused to carry out the order had not been purged. Yet. He has attempted to circumvent the Constitution and Separation of Powers by ruling though Executive Orders, and has been more and more blatant in the aftermath of the failed Impeachment. He has also threatened to jail reporters, and current or former White House officials if they release information to the public which is critical of him. He has governed the Country through largely one Party, freezing out the opposition from any policy deliberation or cooperation, with the help of his nearly Nazified Republican Senate.

Remember as well, that in his earlier phases, Hitler was ridiculed as a clown, a buffoon. People made fun of his Charlie Chaplin mustache, never believing he would ever try to do what he set out in his book, Mein Kampf. It was argued that his ascendancy would tame him, civilize him, that he would be forced by traditions to deal and compromise. It was assumed he would fail because of his shortcomings, and Germany would move on. And of course, we all see in hindsight how deluded people were. Week after week, month after month, Hitler and his Nazis pushed the envelope further and further, and every step of the way, people were shocked. "He can't do that"! "He can't get away with that". "Is that even Legal? "people asked. And Hitler said, "Its legal if I say it is, because I am the Fuehrer, and the Fuehrer IS the Law". And he was supported in this by Germany's leading Jurist, the top Law Professor of Germany, Carl Schmitt, who to this day is the personal Intellectual model of our Attorney General, William Barr.

You all have seen what he is, what he has said, what he has done since taking office, more than three years ago. What do you think he will do if he has a second term? Or worse, what if they contrive a National Emergency to disrupt the Election in order to keep power?"

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