The multitude of ubiquitous, undemocratic, unconstitutional, and authoritarian acts performed by the ill-fated Presidency of Donald J. Trump, exacerbated by the compliant policies of his menagerie of Cabinet Secretaries and a sycophantic Congress, factually underlie the fear of traditional American citizens for the very survival of their unique and precious Democratic Republic. The unprecedented, and hubristic actions of the authoritarian, power-hungry policies of the “Orange Hazmat” are as plentiful as they are systemically un -American. Unfettered by a catatonic Congress and an unprecedentedly partisan Supreme Court, such misgivings appear to be empirically justified.
As described and delineated in prior writings (and as universally observed), Trump’s executive miscreance has toxicly metastasized to all three branches of constitutionally authorized governance, hubristically destroying all uniformly accepted principles, legal and moral, in pursuit of his megalomaniac lust for power and perceived adoration. Not only have constitutional boundaries been trespassed, but, in addition, international commitments, political, economic, and environmental, have been egregiously disrespected. No less than the existential societal standard of “truth” has been denigrated by this sui generis malefactor, in tactical favor of his self-interested “alternate facts.” Rationally supportable fears concerning the altered character of the Nation have been increasing with every outrageous display of Trump’s miscreance and observable lack of moral compass; exacerbated by the realization that his is the most powerful and consequential office on Planet Earth.
Traditionally free American citizens peering into the frightening historical rear-view mirror see the sad decline of democracies, such as the Republic of Germany, (The Weimar Republic), Hungary, and sundry other Nations, transmogrified to a detestable authoritarian State. The fear is that our precious democracy will, in like manner, empirically suffer the “death by a thousand cuts,” the latter, daily perpetrated under the monomaniacal, authoritarian Trump rule.
However, a more positive and contemplative look at the analogical”rear view mirror” would contrastingly reveal that the unique phenomenon of a Nation, whose historical dedication of a “government, ” by and for the People, however attainable or in the dynamic stage of desired attainment, is a historically unique, “radical” phenomenon. The Nation’s aspirational progress towards its avowed salubrious goals has, admittedly, been slow, but nevertheless, demonstratively progressive.
It is empirically irrefutable that the “American Way of Life,” with its systemic dynamics of individualized liberty and aspirational progress towards the avowed goal of universal equality, is admittedly vulnerable, but, nevertheless, existentially prized and systemically accommodated. In our view, regardless of the temporal persistence of Trumpian anti-democratic toxicity, the empirical experience of the contextual desire for freedom will ultimately endure.
To hazard a mundane analogical reference, for the sake of thematic emphasis, in the face of such a serious contextual subject, we would ask: After the experience of a freshly baked, New York “everything bagel,” could you, at all, conceivably, find an ersatz, out-of-town, counterfeit replication acceptable?
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