Of all the dumpster-full loads of egregious actions, none, in our estimation, equals the asinine irony of Donald Trump’s illegal (ref. posse competitatis) utilization of the National Guard to flaunt his hubristic assertion of monarchial power.
The same has been effected by Trump’s unsupported declarations that certain major cities in the Nation (by sheer coincidence, “blue” voting, black mayorial metropolises) are rife with crime and in need of the military to restore the peace. The respective Governors and Mayors have loudly voiced their opposition to such unconstitutional and autocratic expressions of excess power to no avail. This reprehensible exercise of atavistic-style monarchial power is historically unprecedented and inarguably antithetical to the Nation’s systemic Federal System.
Such egregious policy, while consistent with Trump’s consistent disregard for the Constitution and the American traditional way of life, seems, in principle, to overshadow his plethora of egregious dictates by its exquisite irony and empirical dissonance.
It seems to be of little moment. In the selected cities, publicly declared by Trump to be targeted by the National Guard, the objective data, respectively, demonstrate a notable decrease in the rate of crime; what does seem to matter is Trump’s hubristic assertion of power and thirst for political “retribution.”
The Nation’s previous violent and bloody insurrection was terminated only when requested by its instigating source, Trump, himself. Yet, the truly telling dynamics and nature of the violent event were unquestionably and incriminatory articulated by Trump’s indication of gratitude and his arbitrary grant of pardon to the violent participants, responsible for death, great injury to Capitol policemen, intimidation of the legislators and staff, present during the riot as well as property damage to historical artifacts. More to our contextual point, Donald Trump, pending the lengthy course of the bloody violence ( nor thereafter) of which he was the inciter and director, did not deem it appropriate to have the Washington, D.C. National Guard called in by the authorities to quell the uprising
The disturbing facts referenced in this writing indicate Trump’s egocentric and ignorant delusion that the military’s assigned role in our Democratic Republic is to act as a Royal Guard dedicated to monarchical compliance. The notable distinction is that, while Trump egoistically aspires to the status of worshipped royalty, in reality, he empirically replicates the status of a deluded and hubristic neurotic.
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