We had a chance to get rid of His Malignancy before.
Are we now going to blow our last chance, and sleepwalk into Dictatorship?
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Dear Norma and Byron,
Muy buenos días, I am not sharing this email with Willard, at least not at the moment. In case he is still upset by last night's conversation, better there be a cooling off period.
Whenever Willard criticises liberalism and the Democratic Party, I have long thought it odd of Willard (as I think it odd of other Old Guard Republicans) that they "never" take any responsibility for having created (or acquiesced to) the conditions that lead to the collapse - indeed the putrefaction - of the Republican Party.
At one time, the GOP was called "The Party of Personal Responsibility."
Now, and I take this view of mine to be self-evidently true, we have a Domestic Enemy in the White House, bent on destroying the Constitution; imposing a fascist (and increasingly murderous) dictatorship; ensconcing himself (with the hearty approval of his kangaroo court) entirely above The Rule of Law.
Trump Is The Most Gifted Criminal Genius In The History Of The World - A Houdini Who Can Make Personal Responsibility Disappear. "Malignant Messiah" Can Shoot Someone On 5th Avenue -- In Broad Daylight -- And Not Lose Any Voters. But "Getting Away With Murder" Is The Least Of It. "Lingering Orange Fart" Attempted A Coup D' Etat And Then Persuaded Half The People That He Deserves A Mulligan
I believe that every member of the American military is bound by sacred oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic... so help me God."
If Trump is not a Domestic Enemy, the words mean nothing. Zero. Zilch. Niente. Nada. Nihil.
However, if these words mean what they clearly say, then every "soldier" - from Private through General - is oath-bound to topple His Malignancy. (I wonder if this oath still pertains to retired members of the military. An oath is an oath.)
Again, it seems odd to me that old guard, stalwart Republicans never say anything like: "We were complicit in bringing about Trumpism -- and what may well be the collapse of the Republic -- by going along with "everything," including Nixon's "Southern Strategy" which deliberately created an electoral base out of aggressively-ignorant, spiteful, uneducated, bigoted people, simultaneously inflaming their spitefulness and bigotry, making them feel good about expressing their political, economic, social and religious opinions, as if those opinions were at least equivalent - if not superior - to the informed (dare I say "knowledgeable" views) of "you elite assholes!"
It's almost as if Willard expects us to get them (and us) out of the jam they've created.
Clearly, escaping out peril is bipartisan work, but it seems to me that there's a kind of undue presumption in play.
And, lest we forget:
Where The Right Went Wrong
by Pat Buchanan
In closing, I will say that the Democratic Party is one wing of our bipartisan Capitalist Party.
But I must also clarify that I see a categorical difference between the putrescence of the GOP and the bumbling, out-of-touch beliefs and politics of "the donkeys" (especially as their/our beliefs and world views relate to blue collar workers and desperate, implicitly suicidal rural people.) I mean! Spending political capital to enforce male-to-female trans people competing with women athletically --- as a fundamental plank in the Democratic platform! --- makes me want to dismantle the platform to hit them over the head with that particular plank.
Bill Mahar observed, "It's no longer about Democrats and Republicans. It's about human beings and The Lizard People." (See the Jordan Klepper video clips below. And after you watch them, "Prove me wrong.")
That said, I also think that Joe Biden (whom I have loved for 50 years) -- along with Trump -- should be brought to trial for war crimes against Humanity.
Onward, to the "main event."
Thanks for your email.
Also apropos of last night's tertulia...
Please note that Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower (on whom I focus below) are three of my five favorite presidents - all of them Republican.
I am not a Democratic extremist, although I am, on balance, a "radical," a word whose "true" meaning is to "get to the root" -- the radix/radish -- of "things." https://www.
Back when Republicans were Republicans:
Yes, the above quote fact-checks.
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum AddressWikipedia
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
Wikipedia
Unregulated "Cowboy" Capitalism (In Memes): Capitalism Is The Foremost Propellant Of Moral And Environmental Degradation In America And In The World -- A Propellant Rendered Nearly Invisible By Plutocrats (And Now, Kakistocrats) Who "Divide And Conquer" Via The Idiocracy's Age-Old Manipulation Of Public Opinion
Compendium Of Best Pax-Barbaria Posts About Abraham Lincoln (... And The J-6 Insurrection That Lincoln Prophesied)
Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters From An American" Probes The Motivation Behind Republican President Teddy Roosevelt's Full-Throttle Commitment To Progressivism
"The merely rich are not rich enough to rule the modern market. The things that change modern history, the big national and international loans, the big educational and philanthropic foundations, the purchase of numberless newspapers, the big prices paid for peerages, the big expenses often incurred in elections - these are getting too big for everybody except the misers; the men with the largest of earthly fortunes and the smallest of earthly aims.
There are two other odd and rather important things to be said about them. The first is this: that with this aristocracy we do not have the chance of a lucky variety in types which belongs to larger and looser aristocracies. The moderately rich include all kinds of people even good people. Even priests are sometimes saints; and even soldiers are sometimes heroes. Some doctors have really grown wealthy by curing their patients and not by flattering them; some brewers have been known to sell beer. But among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." G. K. Chesterton
Eisenhower Reveals THE DEEP STATE: Ike's Farewell Address Televised From The Oval Office Sounds The Alarm That The "Military-Industrial Complex" Comprises The Greatest Threat To American Democracy By Making Us A Murderous Corporatocracy
What our "educated" children look like now:
I encourage you to watch the first of the following video clips
.
It will, I believe, be the most informative thing you do today.
Jordan Klepper Superclip - Interviewing Trump Supporters
12 Minutes
Jordan Klepper Superclip - Interviewing Trump Supporters
56 Minutes
Wishing you all good things.
Con cariño,
Alan
PS Willard was right to point out that United States officers' oath is slightly different: "I (state your full name), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of Second Lieutenant, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God."
The Normalization Of Cruelty During Donald Trump's Administration: A Compendium (Updated July 6, 2025)
