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Charles Pearce in Esquire:
Donald Trump Cannot Be Allowed to Be the President* of the United States For a Single Second Longer
Any elected officials who do not agree with this simple and obvious fact dishonor the offices they hold with every second they decline to do it hereafter.
He has to go. Now. This moment. Donald J. Trump cannot be allowed to be President* of the United States for a single second longer. It’s not simply that he is unfit for the office he holds. I mean, that’s true of Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, too. Trump is something worse. He has proven himself to be a national security threat, the most serious one in Washington since the Royal Marines burned the place. He’s a traitor to his oath and to his country. He needs to be forced out, either through the provisions of the 25th Amendment or through an accelerated impeachment process. Any elected officials who do not agree with this simple and obvious fact dishonor the offices they hold with every second they decline to do it hereafter.
He is responsible for all of it. He is responsible for the assault on the Capitol and for the incredibly lax response from the Capitol Police. He created an atmosphere in which the worst impulses in the worst cops all over the country are inflamed and encouraged until the Capitol Police refused to defend…the Capitol. He has to go. Now. This moment.
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He is responsible for all of it. He is responsible for everything that comes of it in the future, too. He is responsible for whoever the next authoritarian who comes along is, and that person is likely to be a smarter and more competent authoritarian than this dangerous charlatan. He has to go. Now. This moment.
He is responsible for all of it. This country has a serious fascism problem now. It has a fascism problem that is fed and encouraged by what is at best a fascist-adjacent media ecosystem and, at worst, a communications network that would embarrass Goebbels. There is a genuinely subversive rightwing movement in this country that found its focus in this president*, and that will be rested and ready when the next one comes along. There is no Republican politician with either the courage or the clout to cure the prion disease that has now eaten away all of the party’s higher functions and reduced it to a rough beast that is no longer anything but an accumulation of base and abandoned appetite. History has turned down a dark alley and he sent it there. He has to go. Now. This moment.
Everybody knows it. By seven o’clock Wednesday night, rumors ricocheted all over Washington that powerful people were meeting in whispers, making plans to pry the government out of the crazy man’s hands. Leaving him in place even for an hour would be the final dereliction of duty, and we have had far too many of those. Force him out. Do it now. Complicity is its own dark reward.
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I’d never want to minimize Trump’s treason. But, Charles, it’s really the GOP and their supporters who are responsible for this grotesque “mini-Mussolini” who has brought our democracy to its knees.
Hearing Moscow Mitch and (some of) his fellow spineless GOP toadies self-righteously protest the violent attack on democracy today made me want to puke! Moscow and his GOP cohorts were more than happy to “go along to get along” and enable “The Demented Traitor” for the past four years.
In addition to failing to legislate in the public interest and covering for Trump’s grift, overt corruption, cruelty, stupidity, racism, nepotism, and immorality, they “rubber stamped” scores of unqualified righty judges, including some of the worst Supremes’ nominees since Thomas and Alito.
The abject failure of the Supremes’ GOP majority to stand up against subversion of our Constitution by “The Demented Traitor” and his racist cronies has a lot to do with the attack on our Republic today! The “Robert’s Six” should tender their resignations as of noon on Jan. 20! There are only three qualified Justices on today’s Supremes.
Yeah, we need a “loyal opposition.” But, today’s spineless, corrupt, nihilistic, anti-American GOP doesn’t fit the bill. Not even close!
Take back our America from the GOP traitors! It’s finally time for some competent, humane, honest majority rule in our downward spiraling nation! Thank goodness for Joe and Kamala and those of us who gave our nation “a shot for survival” by voting them in and “The Demented Traitor” and his neo-Nazi regime of thugs and malicious incompetents out! We have to work like hell to make sure the GOP traitors never get political power over us again!
“Rev up” NDPA! Your and your kids’ futures are at stake in overcoming the ugly, immoral nihilism, ignorance, selfishness, hate, and misgovernance of today’s GOP and making due process, equal justice for all, and a better world a reality!
Due Process Forever! Traitors and their enablers, never!
PWS
01-06-21