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Bleak Times for Trump’s USA? by Bill Lee

“If we don’t put a stake into the heart of this administration, there may not be an election in 2028.” Gavin Newsom, Governor of California


The news from the US of A about the wild and weird pronouncements and actions of the abhorrent individual sitting in the most powerful seat in the land, DJ Trump, is bleak. There is his destructive mania for imposing tariffs on every nation in the world: his corrupt attempt to block public knowledge of the truth of the sordid matter of the Epstein files; his racist hatred of Brown and Black people and his inhumane policy of arresting them willy nilly and illegally deporting many; his war on the hard won rights of women and other minorities; his ignoring of court orders (he owns a more or less corrupt Supreme Court); his impossible and unhinged comments on wanting Canada to become the 51st state of the USA; and his increasingly wacky and garbled speech, are only the most recent concerns. But probably the most dangerous of his right-wing campaigns is to destroy any effort to moderate, let alone halt, the march toward the looming climate catastrophe. Just this week it was reported that he was using the opportunity of his trip to England to absurdly criticize that country’s use of windmills.


Under this short but baleful Trump rule, the USA has staggered to the point of now teetering dangerously on the edge of chaos and plunging into the depths of oligarchy and dictatorship. This is at the hands of someone who is a not very intelligent, second rate grafter, along with a bunch of his avaricious and clearly enthralled sycophants. Through his placing these sleazy incompetents in powerful government positions, this immoral and abhorrent individual controls the key governing institutions, the Justice department, the Supreme Court, the Department of Health, the armed forces, Foreign aid, etc., etc.. There are no checks or balances on how presidential power is functioning. There is, one supposes, the hope that the apparently confused Democratic Party will recapture the House of Representatives (but not likely the Senate) at the midterm elections, which are more than a year away. They, one again assumes, expect to mount a third successful impeachment process. However, that would require that Trump and his minions not successfully bully their way to messing up the “normal” voting process so that the Democrats hopes will be dashed. And in any event should the Democrats not gain a sufficient number of Senate seats, they cannot hope to meet anything but a blockage in the Senate.


I have of course been wrong before but I’m much afraid that the long struggle back to some form of normalcy and human decency in the USA will be an exceedingly difficult one, and I fear the possibility of it being a bloody one.

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