If we are to use the phrase “enemy within” we should ask ourselves a few questions. Questions like who exactly had his jackbooted, brownshirt like Proud Boys, and other right wing groups attack, on 1/6? Try to hang public servants like our now former VP, who wasn’t loyal enough for the sequel 4 years later? Of who Trump said, if he was hanged, “He probably deserved it!?”
During his first term MAGA posters kept posting the memes that asked, “What don’t you like about Trump?” One of the options being, “No war?”
Ignoring the Afghanistan war (“No war?”), the truth is we have been at war. We have been at war ever since Trump ascended the first time. We have especially been at war since the sequel most sane and true patriots DIDN’T want. The executive branch has been at war and perpetually expanded that war. The executive branch has been at war with those who have been labeled “the enemy within.”
The Trump administration is at war with us: the American people. At war with all who dare to disagree with him. And at war with the Constitution, our system of justice, our economy, at war with America itself. The administration IS “the real enemy within.”
People want to claim he so bad at what he should be doing because he’s ignorant, he’s stupid. No, it’s because the rabbit hole gets infinitely deeper when an administration makes the REAL enemy their own citizens.
Please remember while Trump certainly doesn’t have the brilliant brain he claims to have, he does get advice from probably the most brilliant, the most evil, the long term American hating despots in the world. Like Putin. Especially Putin. He is in love with them because he WANTS TO BE THEM. You might want to note his tariff/economic plans are INTENDED to bring on recession, and if hugely successful we will no longer have just a recession. It will be bigger than 1930’s depression.
A lot of uber rich got even richer in the first Great Depression. Now even more so, despite any attempts to stop them. You know there won’t be, right? Trump STOP his true benefactors from taking advantage of anything? Don’t make me ha… ha… ha ha hahahahhahahhaha….
What EXACTLY is guaranteed to stop them? The courts? All they have to do is keep keeping up with the “The court made its ruling now let them enforce it” strategy first employed by Trump’s favorite president: Jackson. Protests? They’re already ignoring them and if on 4/20, or some other date, they decide to find some, nonsensical, BS, excuse (they’re good at that) to declare martial law… former peaceful protests become overly decorated… with a bullet! Excuse me, “bullets.”
I suppose all those 1/6 groups like Proud Boys have to do is set a few Teslas on fire and… excuse! It’s only done by dem lib-ur-als, ya know?
Those who have spread hate EV memes all over social media for years now get rid of a few and get to blame them on “li-bur-als!” A PLUS PLUS.
Next year’s elections? Well, apparently Trump wants Musk to get into EVERY STATE’s voting. I assume partially with this perpetual right wing BS that when any election that doesn’t go their way it’s because busloads of (invisible, never filmed or caught, apparently) illegals trying to get caught show up at the polls. Of course states have already been happily purging and getting rid of politically inconvenient polls.
2028? REALLY? They’ve already proven the Constitution means nothing to them. If they can’t, by executive order, if nothing else, negate the no three term amendment… then Vance or someone else will stand in. Like Putin did for a few years. A 4 year place holder while Trump/Putin pull marionette strings.
”Ken, Ken, Ken, you know he can’t executive order an amendment away!”
Have you not been paying attention? Neither Trump nor MAGA, nor Musk, care about the Constitution. “Now let them enforce it” applies there too, even if the Trump packed Court didn’t side with him. BTW, we now have 4 more years for them to pack it even more. Pack it so they would rule for him in such cases.
BTW, I disagree with most assessments regarding how Democratic leadership failed us. I think Harris did almost everything right, except after. She’s pretty much abandoned us. Should have been making noise like Trump did after 2020, only about how the Republican Party has had a long term, long before Trump, policy, of doing ANYTHING to get rid of politically incorrect voters. Especially voters in politically inconvenient groups like BLACK. Of course the rest: extreme gerrymandering.
Short list of their methods to screw voters.
Where does this leave us? If the administration can admit they made a mistake but still leave a wrongly arrested fellow to rot in a brutal El Salvador prison: where does that leave those of us in Trump’s America? Think you’ll like the weather in a cell in El Salvador, Guantanamo or…? Maybe you’ll be one of the lucky ones: a victim of martial law? Dead?
You know where this is leading to. I think you know where this is headed. And who really is the real “enemy within.”
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