Trump is right there, all over TV and Twitter in his un-American strongman glory, happily doing the kind of things people said could never happen here.
Because, some are still telling themselves, America has laws and traditions that will forever guarantee our rights, check government authority and prevent Presidents from running amok.
There are still some who hang on to the myth that America has learned from other countries who had gone down devastating, horrifying wrong roads.
Believing, at our common peril, that America had also learned from and would always use indelible lessons wrung from our own nightmarish, horrifying past, whether from having enslaved Africans and separated them from their children through violence and sale, or having separated Native American children from their parents and shipped them to English language-only only boarding schools, or having forcibly interred Japanese-Americans for years in camps - - something of a precursor to the subsequent and updated construction and operation of the current US detention facilities network which is the world's largest and can hold 360,000 people, or three times the number of Japanese-Americans imprisoned during World War II.
Trump is not hiding his escalating takeover and take down of fundamental-but-disappearing democratic rights and norms when he patted torch-bearing, night-riding, copycatting-neo-Nazis on the back, insulted African nations wholesale as 'sh*thole' countries, pardoned the convicted racist Arizona sheriff and current US GOP Senate candidate Joe Arpiao, demagogically-cursed, demeaned and endangered the livelihood of NFL players, callously tossed paper towels to a gravely-wounded-and-still-suffering Puerto Rico and has ordered children at the southern border be torn from their legal-asylum-seeking Central American parents.
By and large, Trump's victims and also those of the thugs he eggs on, have one thing in common with, say, the Mexicans he trashed as "murderers...and rapists" in his campaign kickoff speech or the reporters and protesters who were roughed up at his campaign rallies.
And with the Central Park Five whom a consistently-unapologetic Trump wanted executed, despite their youth, and innocence.
And with the prospective, New York City tenants to whom he and his father would not rent apartments.
And to his White House predecessor whose American citizenship, college academic achievements and two terms in office Trump has systematically, relentlessly, enthusiastically demeaned.
Darker skin.
As the man said, can't we let into the country fewer Haitans and more Norwegians?
And there are other targets, including the disabled, or women suing him for sexual assault, and women Trump is out to punish by crushing Planned Parenthood because they have less power, he believes, than does Trump, his cronies and enablers right now.
So we and they get only his repetitive doubling-down, because Trump and his party and his handlers and his valets and apologists are all about wielding and hanging on to power.
So there is only silence-screaming-consent from the band of spineless, power-over-principle, No-More-Party-of-Lincoln Republicans now cowering in the once-co-equal-on-paper-only Congress they've surrendered in service to Trump, his insatiable, endlessly-demanding ego and cash-hungry private property empire he and his family manage from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, and north to 666 Fifth Avenue and 725 Fifth Avenue.
This cowards chorus includes GOP elected like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, and big-state Trump worshippers like Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz, whose family Trump attacked and degraded.
And closer to home, Trump is excused and coddled by weaklings like Ron Johnson, Scott Walker, Jim Sensenbrenner, et al, ad nauseam, whose wasteful, self-serving squatting in public offices insult their earlier occupants - - genuine giants with humane authenticity and selfless, public service compasses and consciences - - like Senator and Governor Gaylord Nelson or US Rep. Robert Kastenmeier
Dropout Ryan, Kastenmeier's complete opposite, is now a congressional caricature winding down a failed Speakership by spending his remaining taxpayer-paid days and fast-evaporating credibility raising partisan money instead of raising his voice for civility. And American democracy.
Walker, certainly no less craven, and sharing nothing in common with the environmental champion Nelson, says he'd welcome Trump here for fall campaigning - - while people have run from Trump and his White House staff by the dozens to save their souls and reputations.
Giving Walker another term would validate his noxious, self-aggrandizing governorship and consign Wisconsin to a further potholed, low-wage, stalled-growth, more-polluted, special interest-driven, red state miasma.
His helping reify Trump, his authoritarianism, and increasingly reckless reign resolutely disqualifies Walker from re-election.
Because, some are still telling themselves, America has laws and traditions that will forever guarantee our rights, check government authority and prevent Presidents from running amok.
There are still some who hang on to the myth that America has learned from other countries who had gone down devastating, horrifying wrong roads.
Believing, at our common peril, that America had also learned from and would always use indelible lessons wrung from our own nightmarish, horrifying past, whether from having enslaved Africans and separated them from their children through violence and sale, or having separated Native American children from their parents and shipped them to English language-only only boarding schools, or having forcibly interred Japanese-Americans for years in camps - - something of a precursor to the subsequent and updated construction and operation of the current US detention facilities network which is the world's largest and can hold 360,000 people, or three times the number of Japanese-Americans imprisoned during World War II.
Trump is not hiding his escalating takeover and take down of fundamental-but-disappearing democratic rights and norms when he patted torch-bearing, night-riding, copycatting-neo-Nazis on the back, insulted African nations wholesale as 'sh*thole' countries, pardoned the convicted racist Arizona sheriff and current US GOP Senate candidate Joe Arpiao, demagogically-cursed, demeaned and endangered the livelihood of NFL players, callously tossed paper towels to a gravely-wounded-and-still-suffering Puerto Rico and has ordered children at the southern border be torn from their legal-asylum-seeking Central American parents.
By and large, Trump's victims and also those of the thugs he eggs on, have one thing in common with, say, the Mexicans he trashed as "murderers...and rapists" in his campaign kickoff speech or the reporters and protesters who were roughed up at his campaign rallies.
And with the Central Park Five whom a consistently-unapologetic Trump wanted executed, despite their youth, and innocence.
And with the prospective, New York City tenants to whom he and his father would not rent apartments.
And to his White House predecessor whose American citizenship, college academic achievements and two terms in office Trump has systematically, relentlessly, enthusiastically demeaned.
Darker skin.
As the man said, can't we let into the country fewer Haitans and more Norwegians?
And there are other targets, including the disabled, or women suing him for sexual assault, and women Trump is out to punish by crushing Planned Parenthood because they have less power, he believes, than does Trump, his cronies and enablers right now.
So we and they get only his repetitive doubling-down, because Trump and his party and his handlers and his valets and apologists are all about wielding and hanging on to power.
So there is only silence-screaming-consent from the band of spineless, power-over-principle, No-More-Party-of-Lincoln Republicans now cowering in the once-co-equal-on-paper-only Congress they've surrendered in service to Trump, his insatiable, endlessly-demanding ego and cash-hungry private property empire he and his family manage from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, and north to 666 Fifth Avenue and 725 Fifth Avenue.
This cowards chorus includes GOP elected like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, and big-state Trump worshippers like Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz, whose family Trump attacked and degraded.
And closer to home, Trump is excused and coddled by weaklings like Ron Johnson, Scott Walker, Jim Sensenbrenner, et al, ad nauseam, whose wasteful, self-serving squatting in public offices insult their earlier occupants - - genuine giants with humane authenticity and selfless, public service compasses and consciences - - like Senator and Governor Gaylord Nelson or US Rep. Robert Kastenmeier
Dropout Ryan, Kastenmeier's complete opposite, is now a congressional caricature winding down a failed Speakership by spending his remaining taxpayer-paid days and fast-evaporating credibility raising partisan money instead of raising his voice for civility. And American democracy.
Walker, certainly no less craven, and sharing nothing in common with the environmental champion Nelson, says he'd welcome Trump here for fall campaigning - - while people have run from Trump and his White House staff by the dozens to save their souls and reputations.
Giving Walker another term would validate his noxious, self-aggrandizing governorship and consign Wisconsin to a further potholed, low-wage, stalled-growth, more-polluted, special interest-driven, red state miasma.
His helping reify Trump, his authoritarianism, and increasingly reckless reign resolutely disqualifies Walker from re-election.
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