Apologia
Apologia Po Vita Sua
I am a 93-year-old man, in a constant rage at the War on Democracy: and yet unable to do anything abut it: to stand in front of ICE concentration camps, to watch Rachel Maddow, doing what I can’t do, to respond–let’s face it, to violence with violence. All in all I do the best I can with a typewriter; or to make contributions to Planned Parenthood, leaving it in exactly the same position it’s helplessly in. Everything I’ve written in three horrendous years is designed to destroy intellectually what ought to be–what must be-destroyed, and the Rule of Law recaptured from the Monsters. So….
So, if you’ve read this far, what the fuck is he apologizing for. I mean, we can’t all be a German General.
Well, this is it. The one belief for which I wish to apologize, you are not going to believe. I stand by it.
Among my dozens of enraged accounts of Donald Trump’s vicious madness, one apology stands out: and I am apologizing for that apology. So here goes.
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Looking back, I see one verbal assault after another-except when I advert to him to an identification of him as the vilest more vicious and destructive man in our contemporary history: except of course for Hitler and his six million Jews; with Eichmann running second. They are special beyond all horror.
But no:
Donald Trump is murderous. . He and his lackeys (ICE) pursue non-white immigrants with the same vengefulness as Hitler pursued Jews. Indeed, when at the Wannsee Conference, a couple of generals demurred at the extent of identification as “Jewish,” Himmler asked, “Who among us does not have his favorite Jew,” Trump has never any expressed any such sentiment. His favorite non-white immigrant is non-existent, as he overtly intends to rid the U.S. of them all–by whatever means work.
What is the difference then? The simple answer is that Trump confronts a deeply embedded Constitution at the heart of–once-the world’s most
admired democracy. Germany of the Weimar Republic, in contrast was never neither strong nor admired as a democracy; it collapsed without serious defense.
Both in and out of the Administration, Trump is unable to wreak the white racist destruction he longs for. Even while “his” generals, unlike Hitler’s would-be assassins, stand silently by. I’ll leave any further thoughts along that line.
Phil
