I agree. It's easier to imagine the house of cards falling down tomorrow, than trump and his flunkies still in charge of a functional majority in the second week of november.
There's an apocryphal story I've seen bandied about. A pastor at some evangelical church delivers a sermon about the Beatitudes. After the service, a woman from the congregation comes up to him and asks what all that communist stuff was about. The pastor tells her that it was from the Sermon on the Mount, as preached by Jesus of Nazareth. The woman says Jesus sounds like a communist.
The men who tried to own the Republic are fighting each other now because angry and fiercely loyal, patriotic Americans from all classes, ethnicities, generations, and parties have turned on them. John Thune has purchased citizenship in New Zealand, and Republican members of Congress are retiring and preparing their offshore accounts and boltholes. Trump's minions are hiding out on military bases with their families. Maybe they thought that no one would notice being robbed and driven into generational poverty, or that a majority of people would support a corrupt, grifting, totalitarian regime, or that they could suppress 285m adult Americans with 50k ICE agents. Whatever stupid beliefs they held, their days of freedom are now numbered.
Sound analysis, but mistaken on the place we are now: under the dictatorship’s seizure of power, coalitions don’t matter. Polls and voting attempts don’t matter. Because the state secret police and Gauleiters have been deeply centralized and compromised by purposeful illegality to compel them to fight and prevent any democratic transition and accountability.
Your writing uplifts me, gives me hope. Thank you.
I agree. It's easier to imagine the house of cards falling down tomorrow, than trump and his flunkies still in charge of a functional majority in the second week of november.
The animating faith was never Christianity: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3loqsfhswjk2r
There's an apocryphal story I've seen bandied about. A pastor at some evangelical church delivers a sermon about the Beatitudes. After the service, a woman from the congregation comes up to him and asks what all that communist stuff was about. The pastor tells her that it was from the Sermon on the Mount, as preached by Jesus of Nazareth. The woman says Jesus sounds like a communist.
Evangelical Protestantism especially is becoming much more a political movement than a religion: https://theweek.com/christianity/1016833/is-us-evangelical-christianity-more-a-culture-than-a-religion
The men who tried to own the Republic are fighting each other now because angry and fiercely loyal, patriotic Americans from all classes, ethnicities, generations, and parties have turned on them. John Thune has purchased citizenship in New Zealand, and Republican members of Congress are retiring and preparing their offshore accounts and boltholes. Trump's minions are hiding out on military bases with their families. Maybe they thought that no one would notice being robbed and driven into generational poverty, or that a majority of people would support a corrupt, grifting, totalitarian regime, or that they could suppress 285m adult Americans with 50k ICE agents. Whatever stupid beliefs they held, their days of freedom are now numbered.
Evil shall not overcome the people.
That will be a relief.
We will have a lot of work to prevent others from trying the same tricks.
And even more building a new government of, by, and for the people.
Mike, you’ve given me new eyes to observe what is happening with Trump’s bases.
Thank you for your thoughtful interpretation of events and historical trends. As an analyst,
I appreciate the enormous amount of work that goes into each piece.
Thank you sir♥️🙏🏻🇨🇦
Thank you. I am with you on this prediction.
Sound analysis, but mistaken on the place we are now: under the dictatorship’s seizure of power, coalitions don’t matter. Polls and voting attempts don’t matter. Because the state secret police and Gauleiters have been deeply centralized and compromised by purposeful illegality to compel them to fight and prevent any democratic transition and accountability.
Mike, thanks for this great piece. I wrote something with the same title, also a year ago. Hope it is ok to share it with your readers. Warm wishes!
https://jill699.substack.com/p/the-plot-against-america
Jill, thanks for the link to your piece. Now I’ve got to read that novel!
It's really good--one of Roth's best. And so much more powerful now than when it came out 20 years ago. Fiction's prophecy!