By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column
Not trying to give anyone goose bumps but if you have been reading the latest dystopian rants from Dear Leader, you would think that we are resurrecting the very innards of the prescient novel, 1984, written by George Orwell who also penned Animal Farm.
Both the malevolent tone of 1984 and the tongue-in-cheek Animal Farm novella is beginning to take form in these United States via the auspices of Donald Trump and his likeminded cabinet members who are under the tutelage of the Project 2025 document.
Recently, Trump announced a “crack down” on a vast left wing terrorist movement that he believes caused the death of the now patron saint of the GOP…Charlie Kirk.
As usual, Trump was woefully short on details of the names of these so-called terrorist groups, their locations and the names of their leadership. But, that is intentionally done because Trump’s main goal is to spread both fear and chaos into the ether and have people fearful to speak out on his mindless tirades about bogeymen in your closets.
One would think that after Trump says he wants the nation to heal after this regrettable shooting of Kirk, that he would go on national prime time television and offer constructive words of reconciliation and healing.
But not Trump. And that is because such feelings of empathy or compassion or caring about all citizens is not in his character or nature. His appetites are division and chaos hooked together by rambling sentences that amount to nonsensical chatter.
He is now threatening to march into Memphis but is also keeping his options open to take over Chicago and make it, “a great city again.”
As you can discern, Trump is all over the board and map because he is clueless about governance and has no working knowledge of how it is done. His stock in trade is insults, caustic remarks to anyone who questions him and threats to your financial well being via firings and the cutting off of aid.
With the Epstein FileGate scandal not receding, Trump is in overdrive trying to get you to watch the silver shiny object and not focus on his deplorable record regarding the economy and his vendettas against any institutions that do not kiss his ring finger.
From my viewpoint, Trump is disdainful of America as it is now constituted and he wants it remade in his image of the 1940’s and 1950’s where only white males ruled the roost and everyone else, including foreign nations were and are mere benign place settings for his ramblings and incoherent statements about windmills.
Sadly, the castrated GOP is now signing as a falsetto choir to his foolishness…
and they do not mind! If you ever wanted to see a bunch of eunuchs prancing and parading around Trump, it is the GOP aka: The MAGA Party.
And before anyone runs and tries to make Charlie Kirk a saint and place a halo on his head, remember, Kirk was disparaging of people of color and other
groups he found offensive. Kirk had harsh words for Black women, Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Acts and had nothing but contempt regarding the underlying reasons for the mass nationwide George Floyd protests. More can be learned of Kirk by visiting the websites that publish his proclamations and his baseless dribbles about DEI and fairness in America.
The GOP/MAGA base apparently is striving to have Charlie Kirk as their rallying cry against unknown left wing news agencies and financiers, i.e. George Soros but their myopic vision does not include the right wing fanatics and overlooks one of the major acts of political violence ever conducted in this country…January 6!
For obvious reasons, the GOP members shut down their reasoning processes when it comes to ferreting out the instigators of that attempted coup because that agitator now sits in the White House as a convicted 34 times felon!
And it is this felon who pardoned 1500 mobsters who stormed the Capitol building and nigh took down the US government. Oddly, the GOP/MAGA people conveniently suffer from amnesia when this debacle is mentioned as being a planned right wing conspiracy.
Political violence by anyone is wrong. Full stop. But…when either side tries to portray its position as altogether righteous and noble as against the other political party, everyone loses.
I do not see any personality or a religious leader who has the vibrancy and character and guts to take a stance against this current wildfire and speak to those acts that can bridge the chasm that is growing wider and wider.
Trump is totally incapable of such acts because it is not in his DNA or character or moral underpinnings to soothe and create harmony. He is a small person with base impulses that do not lend themselves to be a rallying or unifying figure on the national stage for a time such as these.
America is in the valley of decision and with sounds of resentment and fury that bespeak of further agitation and needless drama because each political house has not spent their capital of vengeance and vindictive pride.
JUST IN: Trump is using his office to both intimidate the major networks by impliedly threatening them with “license problems” if they continue to host comedians who criticize his authoritarian rules. Unless the courts step in or there are mass protests by Congress, freedom of speech is being gagged by a bully who is terrified of what the Epstein Files will reveal about him and his best buds.
The Almighty Dollar reigns and rules. The corporate bosses at the groveling news networks have no shame or self respect.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com