A Sickening Movement

 DONALD TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATING, which never varied throughout his presidency from between forty and forty two percent, except when the first impeachment gave him a sympathy bump up to forty nine percent, has suffered a considerable decline since his attempted overthrow of the government, down to thirty three percent. Why it has not declined to zero is beyond comprehension. Evidently he has supporters who support  his coup. Evidently one third of the electorate think that overthrowing the government is justified to keep him in power. Freaky. They would discard democracy, and keep trump as an authoritarian leader. This is beyond mere political extremism; it approximates mental illness. All indications are that the extreme right wing movement will continue to play a part in American politics for the near term, embedded deeply within the republican party and the evangelical christian community. Unfortunate though this is, it can and must be discredited and destroyed at the ballot box. The movement includes advocating a christian theocratic state, with a pure capitalistic free market economy, free of government involvement on behalf of the poor, and an isolationist foreign policy suffused within a white supremacist culture. A seeming contradiction is that the extreme right seems to advocate an aggressive American military presence globally, to export American values and interests around the world. They mistakenly believe that America once embodied these qualities, and should again to be great.This is all a lie, of course. Fortunately, a growing majority of voters oppose this insane agenda, as reflected in elections and surveys, and it is extremely unlikely that right extremism will ever be achieve through democratic methods. The socialistic safety net is here to stay, for instance.So is religious diversity.So is ethnic diversity.A pure white America is nothing but a twisted fantasy of twisted thinking. That is why the extreme right is becoming more aggressive, more violent, and why it must be stopped, beginning inauguration day. The vision for American being laid out by the Democratic party and by Joe Biden is becoming reality, whether or not the far right approves, because most Americans want a progressive agenda. Just as Joe Biden won at the ballot box, future progressive candidates will win, and enact a kinder, gentler civil society. The far right crazy coalition will be forced to leave their assault weapons and bibles at home, and either join the rest of us, or be forgotten.