By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column
Well, it is over. Over for the voting for the president of the United States.
Over for all of the political voices that were shouting from the roof tops that
allowing a convicted felon, a sexual abuser and a chronic serial liar to return to power would mean a clear and substantial erosion of democratic values.
Over for the NATO members who looked to the US as their bastion of hope and a bulwark against the nefarious designs of Putin.
Over for women’s reproductive rights. Over for those “trashy” Puerto Ricans who
voted in record numbers to stop a racist from placing his heel on their neck.
Over for the rule of law being pre-eminent in this land.
Over for any sense of administrative/regulatory law being applied against
corporate fat cats and the GOP billionaires who backed Don The Con.
Over for a respect for judicial balance and temperance. Over for Trump being
held accountable for his gross sins that are reflective in the lawsuits that for all
practicable purposes are resigned to the judicial dustbins never to see the light
of day.
Over for skilled administrators and civil servants to provide the critical skill sets necessary to keep the government rolling along without being jarred to a near halt due to an army of neophyte Trump loyalists potentially descending like a voracious locust horde on the federal infrastructure.
Over for America to boast that we are a nation of laws and checks and balances. Those statements will be sorely tried and tested in the upcoming
weeks and months.
A certain swath of Americans drank the Kool-Aid of Trump’s despair,
gloom, outrageous lies and images of America being a garbage can that only he can fix it and reverse the course.
The MAGA GOP and its allies in the news media churned out lies, distortions and half-truths for years on behalf of their Dear Leader because they, in their heart of hearts, agreed with his dystopian view of America and were willing to experiment with scenarios straight out of George Orwell’s novels, 1984
and Animal Farm.
And unless Trump is removed from office via the 25th amendment, America
has sown its seed to the wind and will now reap the whirlwind.
Capitals in Russia, China, North Korea, Hungary and Turkey are dizzy with joy because their slugger, Don The Con, hit a bases loaded home run in the bottom of the ninth inning…and they win!
Will the MAGA GOP faithful be exuberant? Of course…until the “policies”
or “concepts” of Trump and his misanthropes come to their hometown and they
only then come out of their stupor and are viscerally gripped
by the awful reality of what they have done.
I have always said that democracy is a fragile butterfly that must be protected at all costs, or it will slowly shrivel and die because eternal vigilance was not the
all-encompassing shibboleth or watchword.
Now, Don The Con and his enablers will have nigh free reign and unobstructed
power to run amuck and feed their darkest impulses to get “revenge” on whomever they believed shorted them, mocked them or did not respect them.
Unchecked privileges and power will plunge this country into further despair
and apathy which is the perfect recipe for an unchecked villain, such as Trump,
to feed his malignant appetite increasingly with an unrequited diet of revenge and political cruelty.
Count on it that as water is wet, Trump will simply be a token president, golfing most days, while his cabal of sycophants actually run the government and run it into the ground. You saw what similar people did in his last
administration. Why would it change now?
And do not place your faith in the resoluteness of the Supreme Court to
check his excesses in light of their recent dreadful decision to give him
immunity for acts done while in office. It is now a Trump court and with any
future appointments coming via the arch conservative Federalist Society.
Yet. All of this was presented to the American voter many months ahead of time as seen in Trump’s cruel and vicious rallies and in the published Project
2025 which was the blueprint of all things evil that would be implemented if he were to regain power.
Well, it happened and now the country will be in the throes of angst and
fraught with anxiety and despair as one part of the political spectrum attempts to rebalance the scales.
Trump won and America lost. What didn’t you and what don’t you now understand?
A secret from me to you: one of the underlying “truths” that MAGA
holds on to (and also many White Nationalist Christian churches) is that they believe that America was designated by God to be a nation for European White Christians; and their actions to affirm that warped belief, undergirds their conviction that Trump is God’s appointed man for this hour. Talk about a false
doctrine emanating from too many churches!
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com