The Civil War has begun
It no longer is a question of if or even when, it is now. The Civil War has begun. The raid on Chicago, the postponed raid on Portland, threats to every major city across the country. Even the Super Bowl is now under threat because the NFL had the audacity to showcase Bad Bunny for their halftime show next February. In this Age of Trump, “woke” will not be tolerated and so we prepare ourselves for battle in whatever way we know how.
Protests so far have been relatively peaceful, but violence will increase because there will be too many beatings and deaths to tolerate any further. Conservatives have longed for this day when they could finally duke it out with Liberals in the streets. We got a taste of it when Kyle Rittenhouse, then only 17, traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin, with his mother’s assault rifle and killed two men and wounded a third. He claimed self-defense and got off, making him a hero in the right-wing world where might makes right. The worst part was that Kenosha police ignored him when he tried to surrender, refusing to believe he was the shooter despite having an assault rifle in hand.
That was back in 2020 at the tail end of Trump’s first administration, one defined by chaos and discord that ultimately ended in an insurrection attempt on January 6, 2021, that has now been erased from memory as he pardoned or commuted the sentences of all involved. They were just voicing their protest to the 2020 election results, which Trump continues to insist were rigged and that he served as the President in Exile those four years until his reelection last Fall.
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This time around, Trump will have no mercy, especially on those who refused to vote for him. American cities are his prime target because they have Democratic mayors and voted overwhelmingly for his opponent Kamala Harris, whom he has repeatedly referred to as “slow” and “the worst” and just plain “dumb.” Mostly, he was upset she upstaged him in their lone debate and for that he could never forgive her. Rather than take his wrath out on her, he goes after anyone who voted for her, believing he is “crush[ing] violent radical left terrorism.” He even put Antifa on the terrorist list, blithely unaware that it is not an official organization but rather a loose affiliation of anti-fascist groups opposed to his increasingly autocratic rule of law.
It isn’t a fair fight. Civil wars never are. He has the National Guard at his beck and call. Cities like Portland can get federal judges to block his deployment of troops, at least temporarily, but Trump has the Supreme Court in his back pocket to overrule these lower judges. Eventually, he won’t bother at all to heed court decisions. Then things will get nasty. With no legal recourse, the only option is to fight. At that point, all gloves are off and we can expect to see fatalities. Numerous fatalities.
Mind you, this is a man who believes he is entitled to the Nobel Peace Prize because he claims he ended seven wars since returning to office and believes he has viable peace plans for the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Yet, here he is fomenting unrest and violence in America in the name of liberty. You may ask “liberty for whom?” All those anti-woke Americans he so firmly believes support him.
It has been a slow-motion trainwreck since January 20 when he returned to office. We can now expect things to speed up as the Supreme Court has given him the green light to carry out his heinous policies against illegal immigrants and anyone else who tries to stop him from upholding the “original intent” of the Constitution. He has been citing archaic acts since day one, acting as if he actually plans to take the US back to 1798 when a young Congress approved The Alien Enemies Act. He left out the part where the act only referred to immigrants from countries the US is at war with. At that time the nasty English we had just liberated ourselves from. But, it has been invoked before. FDR used it to round up Japanese Americans during WWII. Now it simply applies to anyone who stands in his way.
Be afraid, be very afraid, because in Trump’s addled mind we are all “bad people” who stand in the way of his unique interpretation of the rule of law. The Civil War has begun.
