Never in my long life have I been as enraged and sickened about American politics as I am now. I am close to utter despair at what I’m seeing. My beloved country is becoming an insane asylum, filled with people who want to see the American experiment in democratic-republican government destroyed and replaced by dictatorship. Actual, tangible, real, genuine dictatorship. A dictatorship led by one of the most hideous, vile people our nation has ever produced. As News Corpse’s brilliant diary summed up, Trump’s lawyer at the Supreme Court has said a president should be within his rights to do the following:
--ASSASSINATE POLITICAL RIVALS
--STAGE A MILITARY COUP
--CREATE A FRAUDULENT SLATE OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
--SELL NUCLEAR SECRETS TO A FOREIGN ADVERSARY
And as someone on Twitter pointed out, a president with such powers could, with complete impunity, exterminate the population of a city that voted against him.
The gutter slime Right-wingers that support all this make no secret about it. They intend to destroy American freedom if they win. Examples below:
The people that know Trump best are trying to warn us:
Religious fanaticism will be given free reign in the Right Wing Dictatorship Trump and his people want. This story about Christian Nationalism and Project 2025 needs the widest audience. Excerpts:
Approximately 100 right-wing organizations have signed onto Project 2025, an expansive plan for controlling (and in some cases dismantling) federal agencies in the event that Trump or another Republican wins the presidential election this year. Many of these organizations are led by Christian fundamentalist political operatives, suggesting that they may use the plan to force all Americans to submit to their extreme religious beliefs.
[Reporter Heidi] Przybyla further reported that CFRA [Center for Renewing America] founder Russ Vought, a Project 2025 co-author, had stated last year on X (formerly Twitter) that he’s “proud” to work with William Wolfe, a former Trump official and Visiting Fellow with CFRA, “on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.” In a social media post, Wolfe had called for an end to no-fault divorce and abortion and for reduced access to contraception. (Link to archived tweet.) Wolfe, who has attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has also called himself a “Christian Nationalist.”
The very fact that the Supreme Court is even considering Trump’s outrageous immunity claim is an ominous sign. They are deliberately helping Trump delay his criminal cases. THE RIGHT WING SUPREME COURT IS NOW AN ENEMY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
There will be no magical rescue, there will be no cavalry riding in to save the day, there will be no deus ex machina that makes everything right, there will be no divine intervention. Everything is up to us, the freedom-loving voters of America.
GET OUT THE VOTE! THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD DEPENDS ON IT.
ADDENDUM: I just saw this. It made me even more determined to beat these people: