The grand experiment is ending. Here’s how it happens:
Donald Trump will soon merge ICE with the US military to become his political police force. Trump is systematically disempowering the judiciary as he prepares to oust, then arrest, his adversaries. Trump justifies all of his actions by claiming that the left is out to destroy America and democracy.
Trump will continue to use the power of his presidency to defund and end those institutions that stand in the way of his unchecked authority. There will be no midterm elections in 2026, as Trump will manufacture false flag crises and then use those crises to postpone or cancel elections that he claims are being undermined by the left. Trump will move to close news outlets that he claims are purveyors of “fake news” and will do so under the guise of saving our nation from lies and treasonous speech. Trump will do all of this and more. He started laying the groundwork for doing these things in 2015, when he began his first run for president.
As a descendent of Lithuanian and Galician Jews, many of whom died in the gas chambers of Hitler’s Germany, and as a student and former teacher of history, I can state with unequivocal clarity that we are on the quite unstoppable road to totalitarian rule. Trump will not only seek and win a third presidential term, but he will transition the United States from a democratic republic to a unitary system.
It’s fascinating to me the depth of cognitive dissonance that Americans possess. Americans seem to believe that our somewhat democratic traditions will save us in the end. Americans are wrong.