This is an excellent article regarding the chaos across our nation, and how the Republican Party has digressed over time. In 2024, I would not even call the Republicans a "political party" but a cult created through lawlessness, coercive and repetitive control techniques (aka brainwashing), and mindless vulgarity. The Trump-appointed Supremes - the highest judiciary in our land, are a stark reminder that anyone can be "bought" - the bottom-line of Trump's approach to life. Their support of Trump - a man with 91 felony charges - with solid supportive evidence, a conviction as a sexual predator, a conviction of fraud - with endless documentation and proof, and perhaps most importantly a man who admires and wishes to emulate Vladimir Putin - is PROOF that those hard-working and honest folks in red states are running on prepared-propaganda and mass mind manipulation.
I spent the majority of my career living and working in communist and dictator-led countries. They all have two things in common - brainwashing and fear. Mitt Romney commented on the level of fear in Trumpism. As a student of Vladimir Putin's, Trump operates with threats and violence. There were ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. Gonzales (R) from Ohio then refused to run for re-election and hired 24-hour armed protection for his family. The Russian Congress is elected every five years. No member of their Congress would dare vote or speak out against Putin for fear that they or a member of their family would be murdered or imprisoned. When a leader rules by using fear it is called a dictatorship and NOT a democracy. Our country is half way there to loose our democracy.
Trump's many-sided destructiveness has invaded the minds of millions of Americans and will continue to do so. Brainwashing is defined as "telling lies over and over until it is perceived as the truth." About 70% of the Republicans still believe Trump's lie that the 2020 election was stolen, when Biden won by over 7 million votes. Brainwashing began in totalitarian countries about 100 years ago and was used in: Italy, Germany, China, Austria, Russia, and a host of other countries. IT WORKS. Lo and behold, it is now found in the United States and used daily by Trump. Where do you suppose he learned this skill?
The Mueller Report failed miserably. Barr appointed Mueller - a lifelong friend - to produce this report due to pressure from Democrats. The "report" did not inform the American public about the Trump-Russian relationships and their impact of the daily lives of Americans. Barr probably did not want to deal with a presidential treason trial on his watch as the AG.
The Supreme Court's reaction to keeping Trump off the ballot in Colorado, and the MAGA Congressional members in Congress refusing to vote for a border protection bill which they demanded be created - are all due to Trump's cult's adherence and demands. Jim Jones, who thought he was God, created a cult of about 900 people. He ordered them all to drink Koolaid laced with poison and they all died. The Supremes and the MAGA people do not understand that they are supporting a dictatorship form of government or that Trump's strings are ALL pulled by Putin.
Read: From Democracy to Democrazy by Graham. It provides the evidence and proof of what is happening in our country.
Sorry I can't find another way of alerting you to this, but the following jumped out at me in an otherwise stellar article: "...undue [undo] the outcome of the election." It's in there twice and I thought you might want to correct it.
You hit the nail on the head. I just ordered your book on Amazon.
We have corruption at the highest level of the food chain. The Supreme Court. Leonard Leo and his gang of thugs groomed certain members for decades to guarantee outcomes that they benefit from.
We have our own American Apartheid. This is about race. That comes straight from the mouths of MAGA supporters. They told me that.
This is about alt-right Billionaires ownership of the masses. Project 2025 is the guide to how dismantle democracy and install an autocratic government. The rich get richer and the rest of us can go straight to hell if we don't like it. This is Republican/Putin playbook.
Why aren't we talking about Project 2025? Why is MSM not talking about this? It's all there in black and white what they are going to do. Billionaires are protected by our laws. We value wealth and fuck everyone else.
I think you completely misunderstand the potential outcome here. It’s not 4 years of chaos of Trump wins, it’s the end of the American experiment and a total repudiation of the Constitution and the rights therein to be replaced by white Christian nationalist minority rule. And it’s time that everyone with a platform make those stakes clear.
I don’t think this is a shift in Republican rhetoric at all. Think about their panic over “the border.” What law and order has always meant to them is “a police state for brown people, free rein for the white propertied class”. It’s just that Trump’s own way of speaking and behaving makes it clearer that the latter really does extend even to violence—which is why his base is so devoted to him.
"Trump, and the Republicans marching in lockstep behind him, are gambling that the public retains no memory of Trump’s earlier stint in the White House,"
Republicans aren't gambling that the public retains no memory, they're gambling that enough of the public are so desperate and vulnerable to having their entire memory of even their own experiences obliterated by what Trump tells them to believe. I think we have severely underestimated just how vulnerable and desperate MAGA Americans are, to be willing to adopt Trump's cynicism, refuse to acknowledge his criminality, deny his collusion with Putin, and believe that after it's all burned down with their help, that their lives will be better. This is a full on coup from the bottom up and Republicans are gambling that they'll get credit for starting the fire that burned it all down from enough Americans who really do want to burn it all down and start over, they're that desperate and diseased with delusion and despair.
"Trump, and the Republicans marching in lockstep behind him, are gambling that
the public retains no memory of Trump’s earlier stint in the White House, during which he behaved remarkably similarly".
A more accurate statement would be that "Trump, and the Republicans marching in lockstep behind him are gambling that he will successfully take the presidency by force in 2024". Clearly, the plan is to again overturn a Biden win, but this time it will work after all the laws they changed in swing states in 2020.
No one seems to understand that it is too late to vote our way out of a Trump presidency. The doubt has already been sown, the institutions already have cracks in them.
Lankford is mad because he went to all that trouble for nothing but criticism. Just like all the rest of the hangers-on will be when citizen trump turns on them.
Do you think that, when push comes to pen on ballot, this issue will turn any of the "safe red" states to Biden? There doesn't need to be a GOP/red vote FOR Biden, just a refusal of enough voters to tick the Trump box.
This is an excellent article regarding the chaos across our nation, and how the Republican Party has digressed over time. In 2024, I would not even call the Republicans a "political party" but a cult created through lawlessness, coercive and repetitive control techniques (aka brainwashing), and mindless vulgarity. The Trump-appointed Supremes - the highest judiciary in our land, are a stark reminder that anyone can be "bought" - the bottom-line of Trump's approach to life. Their support of Trump - a man with 91 felony charges - with solid supportive evidence, a conviction as a sexual predator, a conviction of fraud - with endless documentation and proof, and perhaps most importantly a man who admires and wishes to emulate Vladimir Putin - is PROOF that those hard-working and honest folks in red states are running on prepared-propaganda and mass mind manipulation.
I spent the majority of my career living and working in communist and dictator-led countries. They all have two things in common - brainwashing and fear. Mitt Romney commented on the level of fear in Trumpism. As a student of Vladimir Putin's, Trump operates with threats and violence. There were ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. Gonzales (R) from Ohio then refused to run for re-election and hired 24-hour armed protection for his family. The Russian Congress is elected every five years. No member of their Congress would dare vote or speak out against Putin for fear that they or a member of their family would be murdered or imprisoned. When a leader rules by using fear it is called a dictatorship and NOT a democracy. Our country is half way there to loose our democracy.
Trump's many-sided destructiveness has invaded the minds of millions of Americans and will continue to do so. Brainwashing is defined as "telling lies over and over until it is perceived as the truth." About 70% of the Republicans still believe Trump's lie that the 2020 election was stolen, when Biden won by over 7 million votes. Brainwashing began in totalitarian countries about 100 years ago and was used in: Italy, Germany, China, Austria, Russia, and a host of other countries. IT WORKS. Lo and behold, it is now found in the United States and used daily by Trump. Where do you suppose he learned this skill?
The Mueller Report failed miserably. Barr appointed Mueller - a lifelong friend - to produce this report due to pressure from Democrats. The "report" did not inform the American public about the Trump-Russian relationships and their impact of the daily lives of Americans. Barr probably did not want to deal with a presidential treason trial on his watch as the AG.
The Supreme Court's reaction to keeping Trump off the ballot in Colorado, and the MAGA Congressional members in Congress refusing to vote for a border protection bill which they demanded be created - are all due to Trump's cult's adherence and demands. Jim Jones, who thought he was God, created a cult of about 900 people. He ordered them all to drink Koolaid laced with poison and they all died. The Supremes and the MAGA people do not understand that they are supporting a dictatorship form of government or that Trump's strings are ALL pulled by Putin.
Read: From Democracy to Democrazy by Graham. It provides the evidence and proof of what is happening in our country.
Sorry I can't find another way of alerting you to this, but the following jumped out at me in an otherwise stellar article: "...undue [undo] the outcome of the election." It's in there twice and I thought you might want to correct it.
Thanks I will fix
You hit the nail on the head. I just ordered your book on Amazon.
We have corruption at the highest level of the food chain. The Supreme Court. Leonard Leo and his gang of thugs groomed certain members for decades to guarantee outcomes that they benefit from.
We have our own American Apartheid. This is about race. That comes straight from the mouths of MAGA supporters. They told me that.
This is about alt-right Billionaires ownership of the masses. Project 2025 is the guide to how dismantle democracy and install an autocratic government. The rich get richer and the rest of us can go straight to hell if we don't like it. This is Republican/Putin playbook.
Why aren't we talking about Project 2025? Why is MSM not talking about this? It's all there in black and white what they are going to do. Billionaires are protected by our laws. We value wealth and fuck everyone else.
I think you completely misunderstand the potential outcome here. It’s not 4 years of chaos of Trump wins, it’s the end of the American experiment and a total repudiation of the Constitution and the rights therein to be replaced by white Christian nationalist minority rule. And it’s time that everyone with a platform make those stakes clear.
Front page of every newspaper, please.
I don’t think this is a shift in Republican rhetoric at all. Think about their panic over “the border.” What law and order has always meant to them is “a police state for brown people, free rein for the white propertied class”. It’s just that Trump’s own way of speaking and behaving makes it clearer that the latter really does extend even to violence—which is why his base is so devoted to him.
"Trump, and the Republicans marching in lockstep behind him, are gambling that the public retains no memory of Trump’s earlier stint in the White House,"
Republicans aren't gambling that the public retains no memory, they're gambling that enough of the public are so desperate and vulnerable to having their entire memory of even their own experiences obliterated by what Trump tells them to believe. I think we have severely underestimated just how vulnerable and desperate MAGA Americans are, to be willing to adopt Trump's cynicism, refuse to acknowledge his criminality, deny his collusion with Putin, and believe that after it's all burned down with their help, that their lives will be better. This is a full on coup from the bottom up and Republicans are gambling that they'll get credit for starting the fire that burned it all down from enough Americans who really do want to burn it all down and start over, they're that desperate and diseased with delusion and despair.
"Trump, and the Republicans marching in lockstep behind him, are gambling that
the public retains no memory of Trump’s earlier stint in the White House, during which he behaved remarkably similarly".
A more accurate statement would be that "Trump, and the Republicans marching in lockstep behind him are gambling that he will successfully take the presidency by force in 2024". Clearly, the plan is to again overturn a Biden win, but this time it will work after all the laws they changed in swing states in 2020.
No one seems to understand that it is too late to vote our way out of a Trump presidency. The doubt has already been sown, the institutions already have cracks in them.
Lankford is mad because he went to all that trouble for nothing but criticism. Just like all the rest of the hangers-on will be when citizen trump turns on them.
All the reputable sources I can find deny that Trump held the Bible upside down.
Do you think that, when push comes to pen on ballot, this issue will turn any of the "safe red" states to Biden? There doesn't need to be a GOP/red vote FOR Biden, just a refusal of enough voters to tick the Trump box.