The Trump Wolf, In the Coop

EVERY NOMINAION TRUMP has named so far, and he has named nearly all of them, is distinguished by being antithetical to the organization, department or agency which she or he has been nominated to lead. The wolfpack is inside the chicken coop. The EPA will be led by a person oposed to government regulation of the environment. The Department of Education will be headed by a lady who wants to destroy it, the FBI will be headed by a man who wants to weaken and diffuse it, and the Department of Justice will be led by a person who wants to use it for injustice, as does Trump. Trump wants to use the D.O.J. to attack and destroy his political enemies, not to oversee the nation's legal matters and represent the interests of the American people. Trump wants to dismantle, disable, destroy the federal government bureaucratic apparatus. Its a long list of agencies he wants to eliminate or impair, and it gets longer. Trump wants to replace all this eliminated federal power, to replace the authority vested in all the federal government agencies he intends to do away with, with himself, in true authoritarian fascist style. They claim the purpose is to enhance state's rights and state control over the states, to simplify and streamline an alleged "out of control" federal government, and, especially in education, to return power and authority to the states, to local leaders, and to parents. All these suspicious sounding reasons and excuses are, of course, complete nonsense, lies, a hoax, intended to cover the real reason for the dismantling of government by America's right wing extremists. The goods and services these government entities provide, and the vast array of services and benefits, are all progresssive, idealistically liberal, antithetical to the go it alone, dog eat dog ideology of conservatism. If all this takes place, which is highly doubtful, it will be a complete, unmitigated disaster. It will be such a disaster that its almost tempting for the Democrats to just sit back, let it happen, let the nation experience the disastrous consequences of it, and then be ready to pick up the pieces and repair the damage in another four years or so. Tempting, but not desirable. Better to oppose, resist, and defeat this blatant, attempt at authoritarian power and control by Trump. Shockingly but not surprisingly, it is supported by almost all of his MAGA gangster mob, in and out of Conpress and political leadership - but not by all of it, not by all conservatives. Trump is a true fascist authoritarian figure, both in his own mind and in the sparsely scattered little minds of his brainwashed sycophants, the "MAGAts". Indeed, over the decades there has been and continues to be a considerable expansion of the size and duties of the federal government, as the nation has grown. As the nation has grown, so has the bureaucracy needed to effectively operate it, at the federal, state, and local levels. What the Republicans either simply do not understand or willfully choose to ignore is the provable, demonstrable fact that all this government expansion has been and continues to be for a reason, a good reason. Also, it works. The American government, by and large, works, and provides the services, benefits, and results for which it was and is intended. The Republicans, Trump and his MAGA mob would have you believe that not only are all the various appendages of the federal government bureaucracy inefficient and expansive, but that they are downright dead weight, or worse, they are harmful to America, deliberately destroying the nation with a misguided, malevolent conspiracy to inundate the nation in bad policy, deliberately draging down the country for some vague, ampophous, nefarious left wing liberal scheme to gain control of the entire nation. Simply paying attention to what the Trumpublicans think and say and do shows their crazy insanity, and they are about to start trying to implement their insanity, and impose it on the whole country. We the remaining sane must vigorously, strenuously oppsoe, resist, fight, and defeat it, all of it, with whatever help we can muster from disenchanted newly awakened formerly brain dead ex-Trumpers.