Sensing his loss, Trump 'goes postal' on voting rights
By Sid Schwab / Herald columnist
Michael Cohens book, the forward of which he just released, wont change anything; wont shake loose a single Trump voter.
For all of Trumps presidency, weve been given every reason to believe it. Plain observation has made clear who Trump is and has always been. Lying about Russia deals? No surprise. Slimy sexual peccadillos? Of course. Hes bragged about it. Tax evasion, mob deals, threats, hush money. Its his lifelong modus operandi. Its why those of us who voted against him, voted against him. Clearly, its why those who voted for him did what they did. No one was unaware.
In Cohens book, we can expect confirmations, not surprises.
But lets assume everything in the book is fake news. Its Cohen, not Trump, whos the pathological liar. We know of thousands of Trumps lies and none from Mr. Cohen since he found a conscience, but we werent there. We are here, though, bearing witness to the most dangerous, un-American, dictatorial acts any president, or in this case, president, has committed.
Theres never been a greater threat to our country; not wars, not al-Qaida, not ISIS, not even Putins Russia. Were on the precipice of allowing dictatorship. Happening in plain sight, its with the de facto approval, by their silence, of the Republican Party; the party of patriots. The party of tough-guys, armed and Kevlared to protect our freedoms against a dictatorial government. The party of Moscow Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham; Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.
We speak of Trumps unbelievable except its Trump attack on the U.S. Postal Service, to prevent mail-in voting. Not just his repetitive lies; hes defunding and physically destroying it, having mail-sorting machines dismantled, mailboxes pulled out of the ground and hauled away. Seeing video of trucks carrying those boxes is looking back at the USSR; its Tiananmen Square, Hungary in 1956. These are the acts of a dictator, strong-arming to retain power by whatever means necessary; a man who believes in nothing America stands for, nothing but himself and maintaining the position he knows he never deserved.
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Turbineguy
(37,353 posts)to avoid prison.
dalton99a
(81,527 posts)Republicans and Trumpists must, finally, ask themselves, do they care about real American greatness or not? Will they accept a dictator and the end of meaningful elections because they share the same hatreds, or will they find the courage, the integrity, to say this is too much, even for them? If witnessing this destruction of voting rights, though its intended to disenfranchise only people whose politics they dont like, doesnt shake them to the core, there was never a core.
Its not just voters; its McConnell and Graham, Susan Collins and Ted Cruz, Jim Jordon and every other Republican in Congress, all of whom but one let this dangerous, impeached president remain in office. If none of them demands an end to his attempt on the life of our democratic republic, even though theyve spent years doing their own brand of somewhat milder voter-suppression, theyre traitors, every single one.
Trumps pandemic response, allowing unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands and tanking our economy, is incompetence and stupidity, but likely survivable. Disenfranchising tens of millions is purely evil, and, for a democracy, fatal. People who dont see it are blind; those who excuse it may as well stiff-arm the sky.
Michael Cohen says Trump will stop at nothing to retain power. Turns out hes the one telling the truth, after all. The question is whether Republicans care. The answer, it appears, is, of course not. Can it happen here? It is.