I’ve been pointing out since before Trump took (lied about) the oath of office he would be “flooding the zone” with the (Project 2025) stuff to keep progressives “chasing their tails.” Well, sure enough, I find myself – despite reminding myself of my own prediction – “chasing my tail” when attempting to keep up with the scandal a day president who is increasing the outrageous in order to get “we the people’s” minds off of the Epstein files. If you’ve paid attention to the interview of Ghislaine Maxwell – Epstein’s co-conspirator in sex trafficking of minors – you can understand how Trump and his sycophants think about the mental acuity of the MAGA supporters – as Trump himself has said, they’re “STUPID.”

Well, I myself – as someone who can be pretty “stupid” at times – try to understand the MILLIONS of Americans who are supporting an overt FASCIST as our president – I am trying to find different terms (although, I have to admit, I’ve used that term here before after listening to some of the MAGAts explain their beliefs) in describing them. It has become clear to me that a large majority of Americans don’t pay close attention to politics – in fact they HATE politics – and many, if not most, have no understanding of how our government (is supposed to) function(s) and couldn’t tell you how it’s structured to save their lives. (I’m basing that “fact” on my years of questioning “educated” adults about politics.)

At one time I knew, for example, the makeup of the constitution in detail (I took a constitutional law class in college back in the 1960’s). Now, I can only vaguely remember the details of the document which our nation is built on. (I am, after all, only one year younger than Trump) I was a public school teacher for 23 years and I worked with others who, for the most part, had Master’s Degrees and, I always assumed, were well informed adults. The truth is, I only found a “handful” of teachers who would even talk about politics and several of them didn’t have enough interest to learn about how our government is supposed to work. (Despite our mission statement to help educate future responsible adults)

Now that I’m soon to be 78 years old I’ve grown impatient with my peers who have no idea how the system was designed to work and watch Fox “news” in order to feel “informed.” I’ve learned there is no hope in attempting to reason with these people using factual information when I learn they support Trump. I know a retired dentist who makes racist comments as he defends his support of Trump and when I point out he’s sounding like a racist I get the “I’m not a racist, I know a black person” response. It’s hopeless talking to people who are under that “spell.”

Which is why it’s so unnerving to me as I watch this nation (the United States of America) moving so rapidly into FASCISM. (Slowly but surely members of the mainstream media are beginning to use that term) For years here I’ve pointed out the foundation of a FASCIST state is a government/corporate partnership. (No idea how many people believed me) I’ve shared that all this started back in 1971 when soon to be Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell penned his now infamous “memo” to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce laying out the plan to increase the power of Corporations in America. (This was, of course, during the Nixon years)

So, now we have example after example how this is playing out – and, that’s not including a Supreme Court which has set the stage for how this is all happening with some egregiously “pro-corporate” decisions. To me, the “biggee” of the Roberts Court would be the Citizen’s United decision that unleashed the flood of corporate (and foreign) cash into our political process since about 2010. For heaven’s sake, (f)Elon Musk pored in something like $300 MILLION in the last election. (Talk about buying an election) The SCOTUS has given Trump the impression that “anything goes” in Trump 2.0 and he’s taking full advantage.

The Tariffs were the initial step in Trump’s attempt to “merge” the large U.S. multi-national corporations actually right into the government. This is stuff that is so unbelievable to me I keep waiting for at least one republican to say “what the….?” For example, it’s like Trump is taking “protection” money from large corporations. A 15% cut of the profits of NVIDIA and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) so they can sell products to China was the first “unbelievable” step Trump was taking to grab corporations by the “short hair.” The response from republicans (at least so far): “crickets.”

Yes there was (f)Elon Musk actually getting Trump elected via the (above mentioned) nearly $300 MILLION he pumped into the campaign in the closing months (plus tons of free advertising on Xwitter) with the benefit of being the “co-president” for a few months until he realized the republican budget included a $5 TRILLION increase to the debt ceiling plus Trump’s crippling tariffs for his main business – although Musk got MANY government investigations out of his corporate entities “hair.” Tim Cook bringing a special gift to the Oval Office to get favorable treatment for Iphones. A bunch of CEO’s throwing a MILLION bucks at Trump in order to stand next to him at the inauguration and, NOW, Trump claiming he’s getting 10% of INTEL based on the previously promised incentives from the Chips and Science Act during Biden’s administration – incentives which previously only required setting up shop in America. Apparently, Trump was threatening to pull back the promises granted under President Biden.

I mean, it shouldn’t take the OVERT “partnership” of corporate America into the MAGA movement for people to understand Trump is pulling off coup d’etat #2. Unless and until our mainstream media stops attempting to put ‘lipstick on a pig” and report the reality that Trump/Project 2025 is a FASCIST takeover of America – something Hitler failed in his attempt back in the 30’s and 40’s – it will be difficult to stop. Is the invasion of our largest cities by the military and the turning of the ICE thugs into the major “police force” in our nation not enough to get their (our) attention. MSNBC is still calling Trump an “authoritarian.” Plllleeease! Stop with the euphemisms already.

According to William Kristol here’s last week’s “flooding of the zone:” (my interpretation)

• Military leaders and intelligence professionals were purged.
• A prominent Trump critic’s home was raided.
• The Epstein coverup proceeded apace.
• A major corporation was extorted.
• Universities and the media remained under assault.
• A national museum was ordered to rewrite our history.
• The attempt at mid-decade redistricting in order to keep Republican control of the House of Representatives moved ahead.
• Mass deportation and civic intimidation continued across the nation.
• Presidential control of law enforcement in the nation’s capital intensified, with the promise that it will expand to other places.
• And vanishingly few Republican elected officials objected to any of this. Clear and simple: That’s FASCISM!

“We the people” are responsible for this – because we are the ones who chose to elect a 34 times FELON, adjudicated sexual offender, a serial fraudster, who, when his mouth is moving, he is LYING! What is it going to take? Well, here’s my suggestion (for the umpteenth time) – READ Project 2025. I really get the feeling when I watch/listen to commentators on MSNBC that they have NOT bothered to read the “manifesto.” If they have and they’re still afraid to report this as a FASCIST takeover of our government then “we the people” are in major trouble. OK, we’re in MAJOR trouble!

I’ve been lamenting about how democrats are afraid of their own shadows for close to twenty years. Sadly, for those of us who want a chance to stop this outrageous takeover of our nation the ONLY hope is that the democrats would develop a “spine” and realize what exactly is happening. I keep hearing them placing their hopes on the 2026 mid-terms – which would be all well and good – except, I don’t believe Trump is planning on having a “normal” mid-term election if we have one at all. Democrats had better soon figure out what Trump is doing while we’re all “chasing out tails” because I don’t believe he has any thoughts that he’ll allow another House controlled by democrats who’ll be enacting IMPEACHMENT #3. He’ll do whatever is necessary to avoid that “problem.”

If it hasn’t sunk in, the “invasion” of our cities by the military is absolutely in his plans. He’s already talking about an executive order to ban “mail in ballots” – which clearly would be and unconstitutional action – but who’s worried about “minor” details. He’s busy encouraging “red state” governors to FURTHER gerrymander their congressional districts in an effort to make it impossible for democrats to take the House. And, if that doesn’t work, there is NOTHING he won’t do to prevent democrats from gaining control of either branch of Congress. Doesn’t he have a history of refusing to accept election results he doesn’t like? I believe he (and his Project 2025 puppet masters) are thinking in the long term – no democrats in control of any part of our federal government. EVER!

And, while this is all very unconstitutional just take a quick look back at out SCOTUS – the supposed decider of what’s constitutional. Citizen’s United was a total corporate based decision making corporations “people,” taking aim at the Voting Right’s Act of 1965 was clearly a “permission slip” to “red states” to enact voter suppression legislation. And, just looking back at the last couple of years – the SCOTUS reponded with HASTE to prevent Trump from being banned from the ballots in numerous states because of his violation of the 14th amendment (he IS an INSURRECTIONIST after all) – the language of the constitution is straight forward and the court went out of its way to “carve” a “workaround” preventing Trump from accountability. And, in record time!

But, of course, there’s always more. As Trump was facing indictments in THREE different cases (he was ALREADY a 34 times FELON, adjudicated sexual predator, and serial fraudster) the court took up what appeared to be a “rock solid” decision by the DC Court of Appeals regarding his RIDICULOUS claim he had “absolute immunity” from prosecution in any of these cases. But, not only would we learn his claim WASN’T ridiculous to Trump’s sycophants on the court – they (opposite of the INSURRECTIONIST case) took their sweet time – in fact AS MUCH time as they possibly could in rendering what will someday be regarded as the most egregiously anti constitution ruling in the history of the court. They granted him immunity and they dragged the case out until the very last day of the session. As if they’re MAGAts themselves!

The INSURRECTIONIST case took a few weeks – and, of course, they ruled in Trump’s favor – AGAINST the clear text of the constitution. It took them longer than that to decide to even take the IMMUNITY case, scheduled arguments for the last possible day of the session and, as I stated above, gave their ruling on the LAST possible day of their rulings – making it virtually impossible for Trump to face the charges he instigated a coup on January 6th, 2021 before a jury and before the election. And, with the help of Musk’s MILLIONS Trump was able to pull off what has people all over the Western world shaking their heads at the collective intelligence of the American electorate. It seems every time we’ve elected a republican as president it’s gotten progressively worse. Bush/Cheney: Yuck! Trump 1.0: Double Yuck! And Trump 2.0: It appears the end of our democratic republic as defined by our constitution is looming. Yikes!!!

Final Thought: I’ve been paying attention to American politics since the days of Eisenhower/Stevenson. The Viet Nam War was a disaster, BUT LBJ got some historic legislation passed. Nixon was the prelude to Trump – he almost looks innocent by comparison. Clinton was a naughty boy, but he did pass on a $250 BILLION surplus to Bush/Cheney – who immediately turned it into MASSIVE debt. Obama brought the nation slowly back from the brink usually referred to as the Great Recession (left by Bush/Cheney et al) and, of course, Trump in his two terms will likely be directly connected to more loss of life than what took place in the Holocaust. (Shuttering USAID is said to cause over 3 MILLION deaths by the end of this year – and Trump DIDN’T stop the war in GAZA on “day one” – in fact, he’s been encouraging Netanyahu as the Israeli’s (with the help of the U.S.) are attempting a genocide in plain sight. The world is a mess and “we the people” chose a narcissistic pathological LYING FASCIST as our leader. We deserve what we’re getting BUT the rest of the world (ie Ukraine, GAZA, Eastern Africa, etc. don’t) Shame on us!!!