Saturday, July 13, 2024

My view... 2024-07-13-0001


 

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  1. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 14, 2024 at 7:56 PM

    O.K. "Li'l Donnie", we believe you this time, as we know you couldn't be lying, because only a really stupid moron, like you, could lie like that. Besides, we never believed all the disgusting, evil things you’ve said at your campaign rallies...! That was just rambling, cognitive deficient, old man stuff. All that said, thank God you're alive, as maybe now you've seen the light and will change your ways and become a "true" believer and ask God to forgive all your sins, while you still can… given a second chance.

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  2. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 14, 2024 at 8:29 PM

    Thank God, as all Americans are thankful that Donald Trump survived the attempt on his life, as all of his supporters now want him to inflict revenge and retribution on any and all of those who he dislikes... while all the rest of us would like to see him live a long and healthy life... in prison... for his crimes against America, The Constitution and all those he has harmed throughout his life...!

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  3. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:14 AM

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    The Gunman and the Would-Be-Dictator
    Opinion by David Frum

    When a madman hammered nearly to death the husband of then–House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump jeered and mocked. One of Trump’s sons and other close Trump supporters avidly promoted false claims that Paul Pelosi had somehow brought the onslaught upon himself through a sexual misadventure.

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  4. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:15 AM

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    After authorities apprehended a right-wing-extremist plot to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Trump belittled the threat at a rally. He disparaged Whitmer as a political enemy. His supporters chanted “Lock her up.” Trump laughed and replied, “Lock them all up.”
    Fascism feasts on violence. In the years since his own supporters attacked the Capitol to overturn the 2020 election—many of them threatening harm to Speaker Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence—Trump has championed the invaders, would-be kidnappers, and would-be murderers as martyrs and hostages. He has vowed to pardon them if returned to office. His own staffers have testified to the glee with which Trump watched the mayhem on television.

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  5. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:16 AM

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    Now the bloodshed that Trump has done so much to incite against others has touched him as well. The attempted murder of Trump—and the killing of a person nearby—is a horror and an outrage. More will be learned about the man who committed this appalling act, and who was killed by the Secret Service. Whatever his mania or motive, the only important thing about him is the law-enforcement mistake that allowed him to bring a deadly weapon so close to a campaign event and gain a sight line of the presidential candidate. His name should otherwise be erased and forgotten.

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  6. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:17 AM

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    It is sadly incorrect to say, as so many have, that political violence “has no place” in American society. Assassinations, lynching’s, riots, and pogroms have stained every page of American political history. That has remained true to the present day. In 2016, and even more in 2020, Trump supporters brought weapons to intimidate opponents and vote-counters. Trump and his supporters envision a new place for violence as their defining political message in the 2024 election.

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  7. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:18 AM

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    Fascist movements are secular religions. Like all religions, they offer martyrs as their proof of truth. The Mussolini movement in Italy built imposing monuments to its fallen comrades. The Trump movement now improves on that: The leader himself will be the martyr in chief, his own blood the basis for his bid for power and vengeance.

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  8. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:20 AM

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    The 2024 election was already shaping up as a symbolic contest between an elderly and weakening liberalism too frail and uncertain to protect itself and an authoritarian, reactionary movement ready to burst every barrier and trash every institution. To date, Trump has led only a minority of U.S. voters, but that minority’s passion and audacity have offset what it lacks in numbers. After the shooting, Trump and his backers hope to use the iconography of a bloody ear and face, raised fist, and call to “Fight!” to summon waverers to their cause of installing Trump as an anti-constitutional ruler, exempted from ordinary law by his allies on the Supreme Court.

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  9. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:21 AM

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    Other societies have backslid to authoritarianism because of some extraordinary crisis: economic depression, hyperinflation, military defeat, civil strife. In 2024, U.S. troops are nowhere at war. The American economy is booming, providing spectacular and widely shared prosperity. A brief spasm of mild post-pandemic inflation has been overcome. Indicators of social health have abruptly turned positive since Trump left office after years of deterioration during his term. Crime and fatal drug overdoses are declining in 2024; marriages and births are rising. Even the country’s problems indirectly confirm the country’s success: Migrants are crossing the border in the hundreds of thousands, because they know, even if Americans don’t, that the U.S. job market is among the hottest on Earth.

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  10. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:22 AM

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    Yet despite all of this success, Americans are considering a form of self-harm that in other countries has typically followed the darkest national failures: letting the author of a failed coup d’état return to office to try again.

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  11. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:23 AM

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    One reason this self-harm is nearing consummation is that American society is poorly prepared to understand and respond to radical challenges, once those challenges gain a certain mass. For nearly a century, “radical” in U.S. politics has usually meant “fringe”: Communists, Ku Kluxers, Black Panthers, Branch Davidians, Islamist jihadists. Radicals could be marginalized by the weight of the great American consensus that stretches from social democrats to business conservatives. Sometimes, a Joe McCarthy or a George Wallace would throw a scare into that mighty consensus, but in the past such challengers rarely formed stable coalitions with accepted stakeholders in society. Never gaining an enduring grip on the institutions of state, they flared up and burned out.

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  12. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:24 AM

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    Trump is different. His abuses have been ratified by powerful constituencies. He has conquered and colonized one of the two major parties. He has defeated—or is on the way to defeating—every impeachment and prosecution to hold him to account for his frauds and crimes. He has assembled a mass following that is larger, more permanent, and more national in reach than any previous American demagogue. He has dominated the scene for nine years already, and he and his supporters hope they can use yesterday’s appalling event to extend the Trump era to the end of his life and beyond.

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  13. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:25 AM

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    The American political and social system cannot treat such a person as an alien. It inevitably accommodates and naturalizes him. His counselors, even the thugs and felons, join the point-counterpoint dialogue at the summit of the American elite. President Joe Biden nearly wrecked his campaign because he felt obliged to meet Trump in debate. How could Biden have done otherwise? Trump is the three-time nominee of the Republican Party; it’s awkward and strange to treat him as an insurrectionist against the American state—though that’s what Trump was and is.

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  14. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:26 AM

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    [David Frum: Biden’s heartbreaking press conference]

    The despicable shooting at Trump, which also caused death and injury to others, now secures his undeserved position as a partner in the protective rituals of the democracy he despises. The appropriate expressions of dismay and condemnation from every prominent voice in American life have the additional effect of habituating Americans to Trump’s legitimacy. In the face of such an outrage, the familiar and proper practice is to stress unity, to proclaim that Americans have more things in common than that divide them. Those soothing words, true in the past, are less true now.

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  15. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:27 AM

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    Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic in American life.

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  16. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:28 AM

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    The Republican National Convention, which opens this week, will welcome to its stage apologists for Vladimir Putin’s Russia and its aggression against U.S. allies. Trump’s own infatuation with Russia and other dictatorships has not dimmed even slightly with age or experience. Yet all of these urgent and necessary truths must now be subdued to the ritual invocation of “thoughts and prayers” for someone who never gave a thought or uttered a prayer for any of the victims of his own many incitements to bloodshed. The president who used his office to champion the rights of dangerous people to own military-type weapons says he was grazed by a bullet from one such assault rifle.

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  17. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:29 AM

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    Conventional phrases and polite hypocrisy fill a useful function in social life. We say “Thank you for your service” both to the decorated hero and to the veteran who barely escaped dishonorable discharge. It’s easier than deciphering which was which. We wish “Happy New Year!” even when we dread the months ahead.

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  18. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:30 AM

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    [Adrienne LaFrance: Thoughts, prayers, and Facebook rants aren’t enough]

    But conventional phrases don’t go unheard. They carry meanings, meanings no less powerful for being rote and reflexive. In rightly denouncing violence, we are extending an implicit pardon to the most violent person in contemporary U.S. politics. In asserting unity, we are absolving a man who seeks power through the humiliation and subordination of disdained others.

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  19. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:31 AM

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    Those conventional phrases are inscribing Trump into a place in American life that he should have forfeited beyond redemption on January 6, 2021. All decent people welcome the sparing of his life. Trump’s reckoning should be with the orderly process of law, not with the bloodshed he rejoiced in when it befell others. He and his allies will exploit a gunman’s vicious criminality as their path to exonerate past crimes and empower new ones. Those who stand against Trump and his allies must find the will and the language to explain why these crimes, past and planned, are all wrong, all intolerable—and how the gunman and Trump, at their opposite ends of a bullet’s trajectory, are nonetheless joined together as common enemies of law and democracy.

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  20. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM

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    The Gunman and the Would-Be-Dictator
    Opinion by David Frum

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  21. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 15, 2024 at 12:52 AM

    Donald Trump, sowing the seeds of hate, vengeance, retribution and division, with his lies, has reaped a little vengeance upon himself, as what goes around, comes around in the world of Karma... thus, he should be a little careful what he projects on others...! It's time to clean up your act "Li'l Donnie", because nobody is laughing anymore...!

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  22. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 16, 2024 at 3:21 AM

    Just like Johnny Appleseed, doing something good for America...🍎... his evil counterpart, "Li'l Donnie", going around America, growing hate, one seed at a time, trying to destroy America...!

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  23. My view... American politics, from outside the boxJuly 23, 2024 at 6:31 PM

    Did "Li'l Donnie" shoot his lying mouth off, one too many times, as it looks like one of his radicalized, MAGA Republican MORONS may have shot back, because even he had had enough...? It looks like nobody will ever know... for sure, so let's all just stop the lies and the hate...!

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