Paul Krugman made a valid point June 2 in his NY Times op-ed: 2024, barring a civil war (that comment’s from me), could be the last US election if Donald J. Trump is elected. (The civil war could occur either before or after that, of course.) Because he was convicted of thirty-four felony counts of election interference in NY state (that’s 34 counts for interfering in the 2016 election, folks!—and he claims the Dems stole the election from him in 2020!), many of his sycophants cry foul and are promising to join him in seeking retribution for all his falsely claimed grievances. For Trump, that means becoming an amalgam of Kim, Putin, and Xi, a nefarious trio he admires a lot, as well as a few lesser autocrats, making him a much worse real-life and dangerous character than Garcia Marquez’s patriarch. (Of course, someone will have to explain that reference to Narcissus le Grand because he’s a “f&^%ing moron” like all his MAGA maniacs who rarely read anything.) He can’t really emulate that trio of infamous dictators unless he becomes US president-for-life too, so he consequently aspires to do that as well. Hence, if he wins, 2024 could very well be the last true election we’ll have in the US!
My qualifier “barring a civil war” is important, though: It might be what the country needs and what will occur if decent folk decide to take up arms against the hordes of fascist MAGA zombies in order to protect US democracy. The party of Lincoln that waged a civil war to save American democracy nearly two centuries ago has morphed into an evil fascist tool that I call the FPA (that’s “Fascist Party of America”); and its leader, the wannabe dictator-for-life Donald J. Trump (he’s announced the dictator part of that aspiration, and January 6, 2021 proves we’d be absolutely stupid not to believe him!), will lead his supporters to destroy what Lincoln once gave his life to save. (You’ll never see Trump do the latter…yet he calls those who have done so “losers”!)
Of course, we’ve all seen it occur, many times, in fact: An autocratic leader loses favor among his ambitious and sycophantic lieutenants, and they organize a coup, putsch, revolt—whatever you want to call it—against him. In Gaddafi’s case, for example, they tore the dictator apart. In Hussein’s case, they left him in a well to die. In Bolsonaro’s case, he had to flee into exile. Yes, some of these monsters go into exile, but then they’re always looking over their shoulders, worried about the mobs that are after them.
Envy, greed and desire for power, they’re the basic motivations for every evil dictator and their followers. Trump’s, from the very top all the way down to the lowliest MAGA maniac, are just as willing to use violence as Trump was, and still is, ready to spur them on to commit it; January 6, 2021 is all the proof any sane person needs! (Emphasis on “sane.” Every MAGA maniac is insane, of course!) If their rage, or even the rage of good people, is turned on that “f%$#ing moron” Trump, what will that damn coward do? A small group of Secret Service agents won’t be able to save his ass, or prevent him from fanning the flames again with his few remaining followers. They could barely stop him on January 6. The Secret Service almost lost the VP on that occasion, after all, which would have made Il Duce jump for joy. The Secret Service could very well lose their Il Duce in some future protest or civil war! Or, just turn him over to the mob and wash their hands of him for the good of the country?
In other words, who’s to say that Narcissus le Grand doesn’t deserve to be torn into pieces like Gaddafi? He’s done so much damage already to America, before, during, and after his first term! No “Make America Great Again,” just “Let’s End American Democracy!” You can be certain he’ll do much more damage if he wins in 2024! He’s out for revenge now!
And he’s such a damn coward that he’ll run as fast as he can with his tail between his legs to avoid the retribution sought by lovers of the democracy that he’s out to destroy. But he could commit suicide like Hitler rather than run because he’s such an old and fat slob (he can afford those MacDonald meals!) who’s not in the best of shape…that has-been never has been in good shape! Either action will help clean up the mess he’s made.
Paul Krugman didn’t have the courage to consider a new civil war, much less offer to fight the good fight for American democracy. Of course, it’s terrible that we might come to that! But if we do, will you be ready? I for one don’t want to live in a fascist America run by Trump and his fascist MAGA maniacs—moronic white supremacists; radical Catholics and extreme evangelicals; other bigots and haters like the six SCOTUS FPA judges, the Speaker of the House and his slim fascist majority, and privileged old, incompetent, and useless senators like McConnell, Graham, and so forth who can’t get anything done that’s positive and good and never could, as they all fall in line behind Narcissus le Grand.
If it’s the only solution I can see, I will fight to keep this country free. Will you!