Trumpers on the rehab trail: Does America just want to forget this happened?

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Trumpers on the rehab trail: Does America just want to forget this happened?
Instead of facing disgrace, Trump regime officials are now deemed respectable. That's no way to defeat fascism

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
APRIL 1, 2021 10:10AM


(Salon) Nothing good emerged from Donald Trump's regime, which combined any number of malevolent tendencies: authoritarianism, white supremacy, neofascism and anti-human ideology. Destruction and political sadism were its instruments and its goals. It was also massively corrupt, a carnival of greed, corruption, self-dealing and fraud.

As part of a coordinated campaign of terror, the Trump regime put nonwhite immigrants and migrants in concentration camps where women and girls were sexually abused. Women in some of Trump's camps were also subjected to forced hysterectomies. The regime also stole migrant and refugee children away from their parents, literally disappearing them into a labyrinthine bureaucracy. Many of these children will never be reunited with their families.

Trump and his movement went so far as to attempt a coup to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, culminating in the infamous assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6. Trump was impeached for the second time (which is unprecedented in American history) because of his role in these events. Of course, his Republican collaborators and possible co-conspirators in the U.S. Senate refused to convict him.

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The mainstream news media wants a return to "business as usual," which in practice means that they can return to the obsolete habits and norms that helped to encourage and then normalize Trump's neofascist regime and assault on American democracy.

The elite consensus, in other words, is clear: The Age of Trump needs to be disappeared, thrown down the memory hole, so that America and the world can go back to "normal." Organized forgetting is a collective project: most Americans are cooperating because they believe (or at least hope) that it will make the trauma and pain of the Age of Trump go away. ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/04/01/trumpers-on-the-rehab-trail-does-america-just-want-to-forget-this-happened/

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1. "Women in some of Trump's camps were also subjected to forced hysterectomies."

Good God people need to be in prison for these crimes and tortures.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R