Tuesday, July 18, 2023

The party of Lincoln is dead



What shall we name the new lawless party that has taken the place of the Grand Old Party?

Mr. Trump and his allies have been laying out an expansive vision of power for a potential second term. Credit...Christopher Lee for The New York Times

This new party would enslave those whom Lincoln freed. This new party would deny equal voting rights to people of color. Lincoln attempted to unite the North and South after the Civil War.  His vice-president, Andrew Johnson, who took over after Lincoln was assassinated brought on the further oppression of the South, and the old Democrats eventually became the new Republicans; what remained or what was developed after this include the KKK, the white supremacists, and the extreme religious Christian bigots (Christian Nationalists) who would crucify Jesus again, rather than live by the ways Jesus taught.

Let's call it Reich Americana. 

Among those who would turn our country into a dictatorship (some hope that Trump will be the first President for Life) are these people, not necessarily in any order of power or influence.

•  John McEntee, a former White House personnel chief who began Mr. Trump’s systematic attempt to sweep out officials deemed to be disloyal in 2020 and who is now involved in mapping out the new approach.

    Russell T. Vought, who ran the Office of Management and Budget in the Trump White House and now runs a policy organization, the Center for Renewing America. 

    Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s campaign, said in a statement that the former president has “laid out a bold and transparent agenda for his second term, something no other candidate has done.” 

     Stephen Miller, the architect of the former president’s hard-line immigration agenda.

    Stephen K. Bannon, promised a “deconstruction of the administrative state.” And he is now actively pursuing this deconstruction in the 2025 plan.

Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025. This article from the NY Times is a good starting point. If you've been listening to Trump in his speeches, as we get closer and closer to his upcoming indictments in the January 6th Coup Attempt and the attempt to steal the election in Georgia (Fanni Willis AG), Trump's speeches are becoming more and more like Mussolini and the modern Victor Orban of Hungary. 

Some commentators and pundits are content to say now that Trump is desperate and is lashing out, and while this may be true, he is also deep into planning for the second coup attempt, and he has had six years of practice and dress rehearsals, and has the backing of an unseen group of conspirators, those who stay behind the scenes and work within the confines of places like The Federalist Society, billionaires who wine and dine the conservatives of the US Supreme Court, The Heritage Foundation, and other men like Roger Stone, General Flynn...