The New Yorker's Susan Glasser writes about why the Malignant Loser is more scary and dangerous than ever, citing recent statements at CPAC:
... His call to arms was not merely the stuff of political symbolism. Echoing the inflammatory language with which he summoned his supporters to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump urged them to fight once again in explicitly end-time terms. “We have no choice,” he said. “If we don’t do this, our country will be lost forever.” In case the comparison was lost on anybody, he explicitly extolled the “great, great patriots” unfairly sitting in jail, recasting the rioters who breached America’s own Capitol building as MAGA martyrs. “This is the final battle,” he insisted. “They know it. I know it. You know it. Everybody knows it. This is it. Either they win, or we win, and if they win we no longer have a country.”
This chilling peroration by Trump followed his December call, in a post on his Truth Social platform, for “termination” of the Constitution, if that is what it would take to return him to power. The two statements, taken together, sum up his campaign like no other. Termination and retribution are the reckless pillars on which Trump is running. Why not, finally, take him at his word?...
The Malignant Loser is a pathological liar, but on this, of course we take him at his word. (He was also too crooked for serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein-- see post below.)
Meanwhile, his current main challenger, Floriduh Gov. Ron "Bootsie/ Meatball Ron" DeSantis delivered his State of the State address last week. Gulf Today critiqued his Trumpism without Trump messages:
... He ignored the plight of hundreds of thousands of Florida residents whose access to affordable health insurance is almost completely blocked. He used the focus-group tested word “freedom” repeatedly, even as he referenced initiatives that would strip Floridians of fundamental liberties, including academic freedom, business decision-making and bodily autonomy.
For the Floridians who lack health insurance and the million-plus vulnerable low-income people facing the loss of Medicaid coverage in a few weeks, DeSantis did not offer one word of hope. In this administration, they don’t matter. Other Floridians only matter as human fuel for his grand plans.
He wants parents to have the “freedom” to choose vouchers for private schools. But where are the safeguards for those students, or assurances that his proposals won’t drain local school boards of the money they need? He wants Floridians to have the right to obtain and carry weapons pretty much anywhere. But where are the protections for families and communities torn apart by gun violence?...
DeSantis is a slick charlatan without any core principles except to support whatever gets him what he wants, which is unchallenged power.
Odds are one of these two democracy destroyers will be on the ballot in 2024. Sic transit gloria, America.
