The Tactics of Despots

I think therefore I rant.

 

If Donald Trump has incredibly made me nostalgic for the likes of Dick Nixon and Ronald Reagan, Attorney General Bill Barr has made me nostalgic for John Mitchell and Ed Meese. Indeed, Barr has turned into such a corrupt errand boy for The Donald that his total sycophancy induces feelings of genuine pathos. Three years ago, by means of electronic mischief and other form of skullduggery, a hostile foreign nation interfered with - and may very well have altered - the American election. Naturally, the FBI launched an investigation. Fast forward three years and we learn that the attorney general, at Trump's behest, has launched his own criminal investigation - into the investigators! You know you have stepped one foot into totalitarianism when this sort of thing happens.

 

The very fact that this is occurring in the United States of America at the dawn of the third decade of the twenty-first century would under normal circumstances be shocking. But it's not shocking. As a matter of fact, three years ago in one of his debates with Hillary Clinton, he openly threatened to send her to jail if elected. On what charges he was somewhat vague on. Perhaps it was the crime of being Hillary Clinton that so offended the common pervert and tweeting twit who now resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Only last summer he attempted to extort the president of Ukraine into manufacturing a criminal case against the son of the man whom, in all likelihood, will be the Democratic nominee a year from now. This is an abuse of power that is so monumentally blatant that it should outrage and offend every American. Still, alarmingly, his approval rating stands at roughly forty percent.

Idiot Nation.

One must wonder if Bill Barr ever ponders his historical legacy. Does he understand that posterity will view him with utter contempt? Or are they planning to issue in the future state-approved "official" history books? Don't put it past these hideous bastards and bitches. They've already dipped their toes in that rancid water with high school history texts that equate Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis on the same moral plane. Ain't that something?

Eighty years ago the writer Sinclair Lewis wrote a tale of a fascist takeover on the USA. The book was called, "It Can't Happen Here", the overall message was that it could very well happen here. Look out upon America's political landscape. It's happening - with a prescient vengeance. I can just about hear Mr. Lewis doing somersaults in his grave. It's all too strange for words.  

Pay close attention to the doings of your representatives in the next twelve months - and by that I mean TURN OFF FOX NOISE. These are unfathomable and extraordinary moments in history we are now witnessing. Not even during those dark and depressing days of Watergate did things get quite this weird. The bright side is that, for every inch of rope he is given by his enablers, Donald Trump continues the process of publically hanging himself. That very fact alone is more-than-worth the price of the ticket.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

Afterthought:

Since writing the last piece in this blog, I was distraught to learn on the passing of Elijah Cummings. When the history of our time is written, he will be remembered as one of the heroes. It just keeps getting darker.