Trump And His Senate Cult Followers Hate Democracy

The Trumpty Dumpty Report

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act- George Orwell

No legacy is so rich as honesty-William Shakespeare

Let us not become the evil we despise.

Perception can be more powerful than reality

    The Senate Republicans fear Trump and, worst of all, fear democracy, as well. If the didn’t fear either one, then they’d be voting for additional witnesses and for documents and evidence to be presented at the Impeachment Trial of Donald Jerk*ff Trump. But instead, they have become the Senate’s anti-democratic “jurors” at the trial. Romney and Collins won’t stand up for democracy, but will sit down for autocracy, fascism and Market Leninism as they bow down at the feet of their cult party leader pretending to be president.

    A real honorable president would not insult the injured soldiers who suffered concussions and/or head injuries when they were attacked by the Iranians, as they retaliated following the assassination of Soleimani. The Cretin said, “they have headaches” dismissing their suffering. And, The Cretin gives 51% of Americans a really Yuge headache.

    One Iranian government official has put a “hit” out against Trump and offered $3M for the job. That probably is giving The Cretin a Yuge headache, too. Once *RUMP is kicked out of office, that worrisome headache will follow him as he retreats down to his Florida golf course. Now that drones can be outfitted with weaponry, The Cretin might be a sitting duck in the rough as he plays his rounds of golf.

    In the NYT, Jonathan Chait wrote in his piece “GOP Leader Has One Chart Showing Why Republicans Hate Democracy”, “…Donald Trump’s gross, overt authoritarianism has both accelerated and dramatized a much deeper hostility to democratic principles on the right that predates him.”

    House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy layered together in a map image of the U.S. as nearly all red illustrating Trump’s fascist supporters as being “dangerous on their own, and perfectly absurd in combination.”

    Also, Paul Krugman wrote in his NYT’s opinion piece called “Republicans Don’t Believe In Democracy”. He wrote “…in 2016 the voters of North Carolina chose a Democrat to govern the state; the immediate G.O.P response was to try to strip away most of the governor’s power.”

    In Jacobinmag.com “Why Conservatives Hate Democracy” by Miles Culpepper, he wrote “…Trump’s time in office has also revealed a more mundane truth: the president, for all his illiberalism and comtempt for democracy, is a product of the mainstream American movement.” “…they have proven time and again that they are willing to go after democracy itself in a bid to preserve the oligarchs’ stranglehold on power and wealth…”. “…it’s clear that a modern, mainstream conservative movement is openly hostile to democracy.” “Conservatives’ long war on voting rights…” “…the hardline Tea Party faction of the conservative movement has been calling for the repeal of the 17^th Amendment for the better part of a decade, in a bid to strip voters of their ability to select senators at all.” “Conservatives’ today rely on political institutions that brazenly undercut majority rule’’…“conservatives’ contempt for majority rule in the Right doesn’t expect a majority of Americans to support their policies, nor do they particularly care. The Right is afraid of the people because they know that a mass democratic movement can win.”

    In Michael Tomasky’s “The Secret Reason Republicans Won’t Impeach Trump”, written in the Daily Beast, said, “The modern GOP is an un-American party. It is not interested in democracy, it is interested in power and it doesn’t care how it gets it.”

    “…there are two Republican defenses of Donald Trump. The first is the hard–shell…variant: This is all outrageous and real criminals are Democrats…” “The second, soft-shell variant is… what he did was bad, or a little bad, or maybe not what I would have done, but it doesn’t rise to the level of being impeachable.” “This is the attempt to sound reasonable…it’s not reasonable at all.” “It is an authoritarian party…the soft-shell defense of Trump is grounded in that authoritarianism.” “These Republicans say that what Trump did was bad but not impeachable….They are afraid of Trump and his voters…[and would] turn his people against them and defeat them.” “They do not want to admit [he] is capable of doing anything [that is] illegal or impeachable while in office.”

    The un-American GOP party “doesn’t care how it gets [power]. Twice in the last five elections, they lost the popular vote. Power is more important than democracy.” And they try and steal it anyway possible, even claiming voter irregularities, when it cannot be proven, as claimed by Matt Bevin; or by gerrymandering as was seen in North Carolina and Wisconsin making the Democratic governor’s policies lose in the Republican state legislatures.

    They have “Reichstag-ish ideas like ending direct popular elections of senators.” Nikki Haley believes that because Trump’s plan to hold up military aid in exchange for investigation, or even the public statement that there will be an investigation, of his political rival was tried, but failed, can’t be a crime because it didn’t succeed in the end. This belief “is rooted in the party’s authoritarianism DNA. It’s a desperate rationale for holding on to power at all costs.”

    “David Frum wrote…”If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy. (From the book “Dead Right”).

    Republicans fear Trump. And, because they fear their cult leader, they will sell their souls and legacy reputations to follow him into authoritarianism. They will place their power ahead of democracy. Alexander Hamilton in his document, The Federalist, stated that what Trump did actually fits the definition of impeachment. If Trump abused his power and violated the trust of the society, then it mounts to a high crime and misdemeanor. This will be explained in an upcoming post.

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.” Abraham Lincoln