Month: February 2026

The literary phrase, “Hoisted by his own petard,” which memorably appears in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” means, in modern vernacular, defeated by your own mischief. It is notable that, in addition to the dual modes of resisting the imminent threat to the Nation of totalitarian power, public demonstrations of dissent and personal, systemic abhorrence of autocracy (see: immediately preceding writings), there yet exists a third, especially effective, weapon, Donald J. Trump himself.

Over slightly less than two centuries of the nation’s history, the American citizen has developed certain fundamental expectations regarding the conduct and public character of the Presidency, regardless of policy or affiliated party. As the discerned face of the Nation, his comportment and choice of policies are empirically required to be rational and consistent, and thereby understandable, enabling relevant reaction, positive or otherwise. In dynamic principle, it would pragmatically appear to be easier to respond to a negative than to an inconsistent motivation. It is said that Nature abhors a vacuum, and by analogous reference, political relations mandate reasonable consistency.

Trump’s irrational and bizarre international behavior has certainly not inspired the unequivocal respect and expected endurance as Chief Executive of the most powerful and consequential Nation on the planet; his equivocation regarding the support of beleaguered Ukraine, his on/off bromance with Russia’s Putin, his hubristic ideations concerning the acquisition of Greenland, and making an American State of our sovereign neighbor, Canada, of inilaterally re-naming the Gulf of Mexico, his unsauthorized bombing of Venezualen boats at sea, his unilateral bombing of Iran, Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, kidnap of Nicholas Madero, without Congressional authorization and his remarkably deluded demand, nonetheless, for the Nobel Peace Prize, affiirms the conclusion that his reality orientation shares the clinically diagnostic level of the proverbial “Emperor With No Clothes.”

Trump’s hubristic and ignorant travesties of human reason and developed standards of societally acceptable behavior have been previously, excruciatingly, and shamefully detailed at length and need no supporting or redundant reprise in this writing. The huge throngs of dissenters angrily occupying the icy cold weather streets and avenues across the Nation, furnish incontrovertible evidence of Trump’s universal disdain, based upon such unconstitutional and immoral behavior.

The most proximately convincing evidence supporting Trump’s permanent removal from office and appropriate punishment is blatantly supplied by the empirically self-immolating Trump, himself, who, in the Elizabethan terminology of William Shakespeare, is “hoisted by his own petard.”

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As loyal and concerned American citizens, we are heartened and encouraged by the copious number of huge citizen demonstrations of opposition to the Trumpian-Fascistic pandemic, toxicly infecting our precious and uniquely humanistic body politic. Ardent opposition to authoritarian governance is irrefutably demonstrated by the spontaneous and outrageous reaction to the dystopic outrageous policies and actions of the egomaniacal neurotic, Donald Trump, and his compliant menagerie of freak-show Cabinet Ministers. Any conceivable doubt about the protestors’ ardency and sincerity is empirically dispelled by the televised view of the many thousands of Minnesotans demonstrating in sub-zero temperatures.

We applaud spontaneous expressions of patriotism for democracy and opposition to the developing autocracy under Trump and deem them of existential importance to the restoration and endurance of America’s historically venerated Democratic Republic.

Yet, contextually, we would responsibly urge the simultaneous opposition to autocracy on an internally resolute basis. An autocratic seedling cannot take root and grow in resistant environmental conditions, and internally principled resistance to the noxious weed is vital to its necessary withering and non- invasiveness. It would be ultimately tragic to ignore or facilely accept or haplessly adapt to the democratically debilitating toxicity of this politically lethal disease, whose predictable etiology is to sicken the body politic with its insalubrious deprival of natural liberty and freedom of action. A totalitarian polity cannot empirically exist without a compliant population.

The ultimate guard rails of our precious Democratic Republic is the systemic existence of individual freedoms; matters to be internally established and, when appropriate, publicly expressed. No mainstream citizen is responsibly exempt from its assertion, publicly as well as its fundamental assertion, as preventative internal medicine.

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