Niemoller's often repeated prescience, "First they came for..." contains no refuge for anyone, not even most of 'them'
Trump's clumsily constructed political pyramid is actually a bonfire which threatens to consume everything that supports it underneath; ignited from the bottom and engulfing, even, those near the top who believe they are doing more than just keeping a near-dead Trump in place at the pinnacle.
As Trump moves to eliminate all of the product of previous Congresses, and replace that infrastructure with a construction that only serves his own interests, he and his minions from VP on down are saying out loud that they intend to defy the rulings and authority of our third branch of government; indeed denying the authority of the Constitution itself as they would defy the courts which interprets those precepts.
What becomes of a Supreme Court of just nine individuals, albeit, six of them Trump or republican loyalists when Trump decides their authority over him has been made moot by the evisceration of any enforceable checks and balances on his power and authority?
Is this Supreme Court, even with the power they wielded in enabling Trump to avoid trial before the election, prepared to be nothing more than a rubber stamp of contrived authority subject to the will and whim of an unchecked megalomaniac - rather than function as an independently operating body in an equally balanced democratic system of government?
Are they as stupid as the republicans who are presently sleepwalking through the evisceration of their own power and authority?
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
— Martin Niemöller
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