Recent news about the recordings of Kevin McCarthy, minority speaker of the house, conspiring with other Republicans about ways to overturn the 2020 election. These recordings are confirmation of what most of us realized was happening on January 6: that the storming of the capitol was a planned event to prevent the confirmation of Biden as president – i.e. to overturn the 2020 election.
This attempted insurrection was the end result of four years of trump, in which all the norms of civilized behavior went south. Trump awakened the dark pockets of the human psyche. Suddenly, it was okay to act like an asshole in public – disrupt flights over masks, disrupt official meetings at the local and national levels about vaccinations, refuse to pay taxes….Suddenly, the racists and White Nationalists came out of the closet, the Evangelicals got as nutty as QAnon about trump as a savior, a messiah, the guy who would rescue the world from…well, something. Immigrants, gays, Muslims, abortions, Hispanics, Black, Native American.
In trump’s world, if you aren’t a white dude, you don’t count. Rich white dudes, of course, count more than middle class white dudes, but even they and their poorer white brothers can be useful. The white women across the board can be useful, too, if you promise them shit like apple pies and parental rights so their kids don’t all become gay.
I taught for many years before I became a full time writer – grades K through college. I never heard of critical race theory. Pundits have explained it. In November 2021, Forbes had an article about it: Why Are States Banning Critical Race Theory? The article begins by saying that in the last four months – around August 2021 – that Fox News had mentioned critical race theory 1300 times.
“Why? Because critical race theory (CRT) has become a new bogeyman for people unwilling to acknowledge our country’s racist history and how it impacts the present.” You can find the entire article here .
Trump normalized illegal behavior and acts. But he has yet to be held accountable for any law he broke. He just files another lawsuit. My sense is that the democrats don’t want the whole thing to look political. But hell, it IS political. If trump and his cronies aren’t held accountable for at least some of the laws they’ve broken – then there will be another coup attempt. Don’t like the results of the election? Then sue. Find new electors. Replace your secretary of state. Complain, don’t concede.
Good ole orange man fat boy did a lot of damage to this country. He wanted to be Putin, riding bare chested on that horse, his abs in full view. He wanted to be Kim Jong-un, that little guy with such brutal power.
Please vote in November. If the republicans take back the senate, then Democracy probably is going the way of the DoDo bird. It means that in 2024, Governor DeSantis of Florida vs. Disney or trump himself will be king. If it’s trump, he’ll probably slate DeSantis for execution. If DeSantis is king, he’ll probably do the same thing to trump. Either way, we’ll be stuck with a narcissistic idiot running the world again. And this time, there may not be any sane adults on the cabinet.
But. A glimmer of hope, Recently, reps of 40 nations met in support of Ukraine. That means these 40 nations believe in some form of democracy. It means they’re sending weapons to Ukraine. Now, if only democracy could rise in this country again. If this democracy crumbles under the current supreme court, will any of these 40 countries accept American immigrants?
