Let’s
start with a little background information.
White
attendees at a Trump tackled and beat a Black protestor. Trump approved of the
attack, telling Fox News, “Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was
absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”
In 2018, Trump praised then-US Rep. Greg
Gianforte for physically attacking a reporter who asked him questions on the
trail. “Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!" Trump joked at a
rally.
Following
Trump’s orders on January 6, 2021, to “fight like hell and take your country
back”, his mob of thugs stormed the Capitol, terrorized Congress, and beat cops
bloody in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. After watching their
violence and mayhem for HOURS on TV, and realizing they failed in their
mission, he finally told them to leave. In the same message he praised the
thugs.
"I
know you're in pain. I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen. It
was a landslide. But you have to go home now...we love you, you're very
special."
When
the thugs and seditionists were finally locked up for their crimes, Trump would
say they were “hostages, not prisoners”. His thugs were charged and convicted of their crimes.
He was also justly indicted with abundant evidence for his crimes, but the corrupt Supreme Court Justices
in his pocket decided to protect him with the blatantly unconstitutional
concept of “presidential immunity”. Finally, after winning in 2024 he pardoned ALL
of his thugs.
Thus,
Trump became the Godfather of 21st Century America’s political
violence. Half the country and most of the world knows this vile authoritarian has no scruples, decency, or interest in following the law.
So,
here we are in the second Trump presidency, America's first convicted criminal president and administration.
Masked ICE
agents, many in civilian clothes, went on a spree of illegal abductions and mass deportations
to gulags in Central America. Non-violent immigrants were sent to a prison in
El Salvador, built to hold gang members and “terrorists”.
Trump
next targeted Los Angeles, home of the largest immigrant population in the
country.
Not
waiting for a request by the California governor, he sent the military into Los
Angeles in an unnecessary show of force.
Governor Newsom and the mayor knew the local police had the situation in
hand.
His
illegal deportations without due process inspired the massive “No Kings”
rallies attended by millions of Americans across the country. This was the
largest protest in American history. And it scares Trump’s party of fascists.
When
fascists are frightened, they viciously smear, threaten, and demonize
opposition. They would take down and handcuff Democratic Senator Padilla.
This
is what Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said about the California
governor. “I'm not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom
should be arrested, but he ought to be tarred and feathered.”
How "Christian" of him.
Early
on the Saturday morning of the No Kings protests, a gunman tried to kill state
Democratic Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at their Minnesota home.
Soon after, the same gunman shot and killed Democratic state Rep. Melissa
Hortman and her husband, Mark, at their nearby home. Their two children are now
orphans.
They were killed for simply being pro-choice Democrats.
The
so-called “pro-life Christian" nationalist murderer had preached: “God is going to
raise up apostles and prophets in America to correct his church, and those that
are connected to the body, they will come through this mess and they will be
strong again. They don’t know how their sexual orientation, they’re confused. The
enemy has gotten so far into their mind and their soul.” And, “God is going to
raise up apostles and prophets in America to correct his church, and those that
are connected to the body, they will come through this mess and they will be
strong again”.
I’ll
remind you of the type of regime that would ban abortion.
On
October 10, 1936, Heinrich Himmler created the Reich Central Office for
Combating Homosexuality and Abortion, or Special Office (II S), a
sub-department of Executive Department II of the Gestapo.
(“Hitler
did a lot of good things”. – DJ Trump)
Let’s compare the reactions to the assassinations from a few politicians.
Minnesota
Governor Tim Walz asserted, “This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way
that we deal with our political differences. Melissa Hortman was the core of
who our values were. It’s not about hatred. It’s not about mean tweets. It’s
not about demeaning someone. It’s leading with grace and compassion and vision
and compromise and decency.”
Contrast Walz's comment to what Trump said. “Well, it’s a terrible thing. I think he’s a
terrible governor. I think he’s a grossly incompetent person. But I may, I may
call him, I may call other people, too.” (This is why Mike Johnson's calling
for Newsom to be tarred and feathered isn’t a problem for Trump.)
There's a photo of the killer's home-printed sheets of paper with "No Kings" on the back seat of his car, obviously intended to be a decoy to confuse investigators. So naturally Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno tried to pin the assassination on the “extreme
left”. He wrote online, “The degree to which the extreme left has become
radical, violent, and intolerant is both stunning and terrifying.” (Since
when has the “extreme left” assassinated pro-choice Democrats? Never.)
This
projection is how evil fascists like Nazis attack those they hate.
Sen.
Mike Lee (R-Utah) also went full neo-Nazi with his sick justification of the killing, “This is what happens when
Marxists don’t get their way.”
Of
course, Democrats are NOT Marxists, but that has been the go-to fascist smear
tactic since Hitler and Mussolini.
This
despicable mindset of the radical right is not simply conspiracy theories and
misinformation. It is their deliberate propaganda meant to demonize opposition their Felonious Fuhrer termed, “the enemy within”. The day after the murders Trump openly incited MORE VIOLENCE, saying Democrats "cheat in elections", are "sick of mind", and "hate our country".
Trump
and his Republicans have transformed their party into America’s version of
Nazism. Besides the selective persecution of Jews, ethnic groups, and the mentally ill, the main differences between the US and Nazi Germany is we have our educational institutions, (free?) press, (independent?) judiciary, and Democratic opposition, which all happen to be the primary
targets of American fascists.
And
it will get worse. IF we have fair elections in 2026 this fascist scourge can
be attenuated. But it can only happen by overwhelming Democratic and
independent voter turnout.
Good
luck, America. You’re going to need it.