Saint Donald, The Perpetual Martyr

 It must be tough being a republican these days. You not only have to be able to shift gears faster than a driver at Le Mans, but you have to throw your vehicle into reverse in order to change directions in full view of everyone in the grand stands. Such adroit and high speed maneuvers began to take place this past Monday morning when agents of the FBI showed up at Donald Trump's front door.

Some members of the GOP were so outraged at this turn of events they forgot their anger a couple of years ago about calls for the police to be defunded. That's right, suddenly they were demanding the FBI be stripped of its funding. Others, who up until Monday were saying Joe Biden was a senile old man who didn't have a clue about anything, are now maintaining he is the evil mastermind behind the plan to execute the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. A few are howling the search of a former president's residence is proof the United States is becoming a, "banana republic." They seem oblivious to the fact that particular ship sailed on January 6th 2021 when Trump inspired the mob to storm the capitol building in order to illegally keep him in power.

Well, as they say, times change, although not usually so quickly.

Brother Don, predictably, is now in full martyr mode. Indeed, to hear him is to believe no man in history has been crucified as often as he has. He is living proof the deep state exists. That they really are out to get you. 

Some are speculating and a few are hoping the search warrant affair has all but guaranteed him the republican nomination in 2024. The reasoning is it has galvanized and energized his base. This thinking doesn't seem to recognize Trump's cult of ghouls are already galvanized. They have been since 2016 when he came gliding down the golden escalator Let's face it, the man could walk outside, look at the sun and say, "That's a great full moon," and they would believe him. He literally could shoot the poor schnuck in the middle of 5th Avenue and they'd let him off.

Be that as it may a nomination might not be in the offing. It's tough to appear on a ballot after you've been convicted of a felony.

What no one is contesting is that he did possess the documents he wasn't supposed to have--that he did withhold them from the National Archives despite what the law says. There had been months of negotiations held to get them back to where they belonged. He had even turned over some, but refused to come clean on the rest. What no republican wants to admit is that subpoenas wouldn't have worked because Donald Trump is a congenital liar and cannot be trusted to do anything a court requests, or be trusted with government documents no matter what their importance. Yes, the only way to get them back was for the FBI to execute a search warrant.

Some right wing hacks are comparing the search to the Watergate break in. Their recollection of history is astoundingly bad. Either that, or they are depending on the defective memories of Trump's band of hysterics. A legally executed search warrant carried out in the middle of the day by law enforcement officials has nothing whatsoever to do with a gang of Cuban expats breaking into an office during the middle of the night in order to steal campaign strategies and material. They were breaking the law, not following the instructions of a federal judge.

Of course logic and a sense of the law are severely lacing in today's republican party. All they know is, in their minds, their man has been wronged. And, that wrong is enough for some to threaten civil war, not to mention sending scores of demented messages to law enforcement agents and opposing politicians.

It might behoove them, however, to remember what happened the last time these soldiers of heaven took to the streets and committed violence in the name of their guy. In the end, Donald John Trump hung them out to dry.

Such is the one way street named loyalty for the former President of the United States of America.

sic vat est

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