Trump Worries Even the Republicans and Flat Out Scares Me

 The online header read, "Trump jeered as he pays his respects to Ginsburg."

While normally the crowd's reaction would be considered not only rude, but overwhelmingly inappropriate it comes only one day after the President of the United States refused to promise a peaceful transition of power if he loses the election in November. The rambling disjointed remarks 24 hours earlier were a direct insult to everything Ruth Bader Ginsburg stood for during her life time and a real threat to American democracy as we know it.

Think not? Name another American President who has said a similar thing. You can't, because not one of them ever has and that includes Richard Milhous Nixon. That's right, as wildly criminal as Nixon was he never dreamed he was entitled to bring down two hundred plus years of tradition and the constitution of the United States in one fell swoop. 

Donald Trump on the other hand, not being encumbered with any sort of awe, or respect for the American system of government, has no problem doing it, especially if it profits him personally. To him the people are sheep to be shorn, the congress is a mild, if nagging, impediment, and the judicial branch is to be bought then used as ruthlessly as possible.

Well why not? No one has ever told Donald Trump no before, not even his father and while he might not particularly want a second term, by God, no one is going to tell him he can't have it. 

Trump's words were so bothersome the usual GOP toadies balked if only slightly. While not mentioning Trump by name, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Steve Stivers, and Mitch McConnell assured constituents there would be a smooth transition of power if Trump loses. Lindsey Graham, allowing a glimpse of what is to come post election day said, if the Supreme Court rules that Biden won republicans will accept the decision.

Thanks a lot Lindsey for telling us our votes might not count, that the entire future of the nation will be left up to a Supreme Court Don Trump and guys like you have packed with unrepentant fascists.

All of which explains the sudden urgency to pick a new justice before November 3rd. You can never have too many votes to steal the White House.

Normally what Trump said could be written off as nothing but more hyperbole from the king of hyperbole. However, as everyone knows, nothing is normal these days. Trump has ham handedly hinted at a life time presidency on more than one occasion. Plus there is all that howling about voter fraud through the mail which even he knows is utter nonsense. Hey just ask him about voting through the mail in Florida. He says it is fine there.

I haven't ever voted for a republican, but I've never been worried about one of them seizing power and destroying the institutions of American democracy. I have always known, no matter how rotten their terms in office, the republic would survive. I cannot say the same thing about Donald John Trump.

And that scares the shit out of me.

9-24-20