Trump nearly ended our Republic as a Republic.
“On Thursday morning, [July 11th], Donald Trump issued a series of tweets suggesting that he intend[ed] to issue an executive order that adds a citizenship question to the census—despite an explicit ruling from the Supreme Court. If Trump had followed through on this threat, it would follow a chaotic week in which the Commerce Department first signaled it had begun printing the documents without the question, as ordered by the courts, before being overruled by Trump.” [Daily Kos]
It also would have signaled Trump's assertion of dictatorial powers as he is already defying the House, and sometimes even the Senate.
Daily Kos Reported:
“This action comes after a string of complaints from Trump on Thursday in which he expressed frustration that a federal judge wouldn’t allow Attorney General William Barr to completely sack the legal team that had been arguing the citizenship question before the courts and replace them with an entirely new team, arguing entirely new points, in the midst of a case given emergency rush status at the request of the White House.” [Daily Kos]
The Courts wouldn't allow Trump to sack that legal team, because Trump's argument for the citizenship question had been fraudulently and he'd been caught in the fraud. Trump was close to trying to channel his dictatorial hero, Andrew Jackson:
“it seems that the citizenship question is the point at which Trump has decided to declare that Mr. Roberts has made his decision—now let him enforce it.” [Daily Kos]
Birtherism 2.0
Fortunately Trump backed down, for now. He went on to executing Birtherism 2.0 by attacking the "Mod Squad" of four young new delegates to congress. He was censured for this, rightly. Trump obviously means to rule by diktat. He seems to want Democrats to fight with him with him championing racism, birtherism and xenophobia. We'll have to take him up on that challenge.
At some point he will defy the Supreme Court, defy the congress and try to complete his coup. Will he succeed? Enquiring minds want to know.
The man had tee-shirts printed saying "America, Love it or leave it." They were on sale at the rally where his organizers had the crowd chanting "Send her Back, Send her back ..." Of course they planned it. Of course Trump is disavowing it. Trump may have thrown open the closet with the white sheets, but part of the tactics of Right Wingers is to deny what they just said themselves to those they said it too. It's like when anti-semitic Germans deny there were ever any Jews living in Nuremberg. They build concentration camps and deny they are concentration camps. They stock up on basics, and refuse to hand them to their victims. Then they claim that the problem is that "The Democrats won't pay for them." These people look exactly like the Nazis I studied.
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