An in-depth analysis of a convicted felon-in-chief.
Nothing matters in the end.
Not the probable dementia , the unfathomable ignorance , the emotional incontinence.
Not , certainly , the shambling , hate-filled campaign , or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.
Beginning with a presidential candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions , facing 91 criminal indictments , the convicted fraud artist , the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator , the habitual bankrupt , the stooge of Vladimir Putin , the man who tried to overturn the last US election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks , ideologues and lunatics.
74 million Americans voters took a long look at all this in November 2024 and said ..
..“Yes please”..
What a disaster..!!
This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster , whose sole purpose in running , besides staying out of jail , is to seek revenge on his perceived enemies.
The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies are doing , not only to the US , but also to its democratic allies , and to the peace and security of the world is incalculable.
We are now living in the time of the Roman Emperor Nero.
The first six months has been a time of maximum peril.
NATO must from this moment be considered effectively Shakey , without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock.
We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe (..the poor Ukrainians are really struggling..) , but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative.
China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions.
At home , Mr. Trump is moving swiftly to consolidate his power.
Some of this will be institutional.
Like the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists.
But some of it will be atmospheric.
At some point someone ( ..a company whose chief executive has displeased him , a media critic who has gotten under his skin..) will find themselves the subject of unwanted and illegal attention from the Trump administration.
It might not be so crude as a police arrest.
It might just be a little regulatory matter , a tax audit , something like that.
They will seek the protection of the courts , and find it is not there.
Some of the Court Judges are also Trump loyalists , perhaps , or too scared to confront him.
Or they might issue a ruling , and find it has no effect.
The Trump administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy , the idea that people in power agree to be bound by the law of the land , and it’s the courts , the same as everyone else.
Executive extortion and “quid-pro-quo’s” have become a way of Trump life.
(..Eg: USD: 400 Million Aircraft “gifts” from the Qatari Government..)
Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly.
The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will eventually distabilize the world economy.
The massive deficits , fueled by his ill-judged tax policies (.. he won’t replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes..) and monetized , at his direction , by the Federal Reserve , will ignite a new round of domestic inflation.
Most of all , the insane racist project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants (… finding them , rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country , probably for years , before doing so..) will consume his administration.
But by then it may be too late.
We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses any time soon.
74 million of them were not able to see Trump for what he was before they voted him into office in November 2024.
Why should that change..???
Would they not , rather , be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by ICE , or the military , further steeled to the necessity of doing “tough things” to “restore order”..???
Some won’t , of course.
But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything.
There are still elections , but the rules have been altered.
There are certain obstacles , certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power.
It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within.
Then it will be easier not to change things.
All of this will lead to the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it.
And who will have the backing of their patron in the White House.
The Founding Fathers must be turning in their graves and the majority of the registered US Voters ( ..158 million in 2024 ) wondering how reckless MAGA controlled minority of 74 million voter base ..) has empowered a criminal lunatic to create havoc in their lives.
Our famous cousin from Kogelo , President Barrack Hussein Obama , once warned us ..
..“Choices have Consequences”..
