We are alarmed about the propagandistic deceit practiced by the Trump Administration upon an apparently haplessly naive American public. The tactics amount to a tactical reprise of a model, stereotypically employed to achieve the ultimate goal of fascism. A recent illustration of this mode of nefarious tactics was demonstrably successful in creating the authoritarian government of Hungary, where the proponents of authoritarianism used a similar pretext of “the immigration problem” to destroy Hungarian democracy and install the tyrant, Viktor Orban. History recounts a plethora of tactically enunciated counterfeit issues, such as preventing the growth of “communism” and scapegoating the Jews as responsible for Nazi Germany’s economic adversity in 1930’s.
It is the present theme that analogous dynamics are contemporaneously employed relative to the sub rosa intentions of Trump and his MAGA sycophants in the pernicious incitement of the issue of immigration, and in their sham concern relative to the subject of antisemetism. Underlying the purported issues of preventing the entrance of undesirable immigrants, and that of combating “anti-Semitism” (which itself is productive of a responsive anti-Semitism), is the disguised motive for the program of destruction of American democracy and the establishment of an authoritarian government under the Orange Hazmat and his MAGA lemmings.
Any rational observer of the current political scenario is aware that Donald Trump has demonstrated no political, economic, or sociological doctrinaire belief, and has empirically demonstrated a personal interest, solely in himself and the acquisition of ego-enforcing political power. All public and governmental issues, sincerely supported or opposed by him, are seen through the limited and exclusive lens of his lust for unlimited power and demonstrated wealth. His inequitable support of the richest people in the Nation, to the detriment of the middle and poor economic classes, is not doctrinal but transactional, based upon their financial support.
Trump’s catering to xenophobic bigotry, his faux concern relative to anti-Semitism, his catering to the religious lobby by the opposition to abortion, his approval of censorship, derogation, and financial withholding of funds for higher education, his encouragement and support of the Washington insurrection, his support of White Christian Militias, his criticism of NATO, his reprisals against political opponents, his derogation of truth in favor of conspiritorial ideations and promotion of the propriety of “alternate facts,” his castigation of the free press and institutions of enlightenment are all, irrefutably, founded in his excess of hybris concerning his entitlement to power and nothing else.
Particular notice is to be taken of his contextual failure to recognize the Constitution and the accepted rule of law. Judicial determinations are not adhered to by him; rather, the Nation’s Judiciary is maligned, and Constitutional, statutory, and precedential law is seen as subject to personal cancellation by the egoistic and hubristic employment of his felt-tipped black “Sharpie.”
The would-be autocratic tyrant, in his reductive ignorance and half-vast egotism, presumably looks down, from his singularly myopic bubble, on all Americans, (inclusive of his submissive MAGA cultists), as incapable of discernment of his singular and reductive hubris, which should be as empirically evident as the repulsive sight of highway roadkill.
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