Let’s look at what happened.
- As soon as he achieved office, he pardoned hundreds of individuals who openly supported him in the past, despite their crimes being against the state over which he now resides.
- He oversees the discharge of long-term administration officials, most of whom have vast knowledge of their positions and responsibilities, and replaces them with sycophants who have little or no government experience and indeed no experience with the positions they are now placed in.
- He begins an assault on universities and colleges, claiming they are responsible for allowing student unrest and offering courses inconsistent with his government’s newly espoused positions.
- He acquiesces to similar assaults against primary and secondary education by eliminating departments that aid those institutions, thereby driving students into carefully controlled and orchestrated environments where the curriculum can be more easily manipulated.
- He expands the responsibilities of the military and orders it to intervene in domestic law enforcement despite constitutional limits that prohibit it.
- He manipulates the country’s governing body by offering emoluments to his supporters and removing support from those who oppose him.
- He falsely creates national emergencies and uses his newly activated military forces to enforce his edicts.
- He creates and foments hatred against certain segments of society and encourages his followers to take whatever actions are necessary to keep those segments under control.
- He belittles local and regional leaders who vocally oppose him and suggests they should be jailed.
- He vilifies the media when it exposes his excesses, prompting his legal administrative arm to seek methods of curtailing public opposition.
- He decries intellectualism in any form and appoints followers to positions that enable them to overturn and remove scientific findings that do not support newly formed opinions, which are, at the very least, anti-scientific.
- He works, through his appointees, to secure support from the military establishment, even to the extent of dismissing high-ranking officers to appoint others who he knows will support him.
- He creates hatred of all those who oppose him by labelling them Marxists and socialists.
President Trump, 2025?
Nope.
Adolph Hitler, 1930s.
Anyone who cannot see that this country is in the throes of national socialism simply hasn’t been paying attention. And for those who don’t know, national socialism was the name of Hitler’s movement before it became simply Nazism.
The parallels cited above can also be seen in the history of Russia and in what is ongoing there under Putin.
The recent “No Kings” rallies around the country are too focused. They should not be limited to working against the inauguration of a king in this country. They should take up the cry of a disappearing democracy. They should expose the corruption of elected officials who kowtow to the ministrations of someone seeking ultimate and unfettered power, simply to ensure their own continuation in office. They should decry the despicable fealty to party over country and the obeisance of a Supreme Court that sits idly by while the basic tenets of our Constitution are whittled away.
The No Kings rallies will accomplish nothing if those who so readily participate in them fail to go to the polls during the next elections and turn out of office those who have been complicit in the situation that now embroils this country.
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Written by Chuck Witt, a retired architect, a former newspaper columnist, and a lifelong resident of Winchester. Cross-posted from WinCity Voices.
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