Trump's Growing Opposition

OPPOSITION TO TRUMP, which in general terms is often called "the resistance" by its leaders, is growing. During the weeks between Trump's election and his assuption of power, the progressive community agonized in defeat, deapair, and anger. Nearly all of the remarks made by the anti-Trump community online were full of doom and gloom, very negative, very angry. When I suggested that a strong resistance movement should be initiated immediately, with the ultimate goal of removing trump from office, most of my fellow libs ridiculded and insulted me, with utter disbelief. One paricularly kind and literarily aware scholar compared me to Don Quixote, tilting at windmills, like some deranged but harmless self proclaimed dottering old super hero. The barbs, coming from my supposed "comrades" bit and stung a bit, maybe, but did not deter me. When I stood firm and remarked to my fellow travelers my intent to defeat and destroy Trump with or without any help, the derision proliferated. The only thing people were able to grasp is that they were going to have to endure four years of Thump-hell. Ah, but not so fast. There is a movment called "Fifty Fifty One", which evidently refers to the fact that Trump resistance, considting of demonstrations and protests, are and shall continue to manifest in all fifty states, but that the momement is a unified whole. Equally auspicious, there is now a faith based anti-Trump protest movement, a group which assembles in large numbers on the famous steps of the Capitol once a month or so, their message being to remind Congress that its members are elected to serve their constituents, not a king of America. Presumably these folks are politically progressive Christians, expressing their belief that we the American people, in a country which many describe as "Christian", or as having "Christian values", should put those values into practice, in and out of the government, and that cutting social programs and cutting taxes on the wealthy is not the way to achieve that. There is a certain "reasonableness" to this wiewpoint. Trump is self destructing, digging his own political grave, as it were, much more rapidly than I ever could have imagined. His use of Elon Musk to chainsaw the federal government to smitherenes is clearly unconstitutionl; only Congress can do that. Also, it is clearly having disastrous effects, on the stability and health of the economy, and on the American peole, as tens of thousands of newly unemployoed government employees try to land on their feet, find a way to support their families, and begin, at long last, to question their support of Trump. Likewise, this global trade war that Trump has started, in which America, first and alone, alienates all of her allies and trading partners, is becoming more disastrous daily. The tariffs are being imposed and rescinded and reimposed chaotically, as if by the whims of a madman. International trade and prosperity will come grinding to a halt, the way Trump is going, with the evident full support of the formerly free trade free market capitalistic Republican party. Fascism has come to the United States, with Trump ruling by decree, and the Republican Congress sitting idly by, doing nothing to assert its constitutional powers and responsibilities, happpy to let Trump be Trump, an authoritarian. The Supreme Court is going to decide whether a president of the United States can amend the constitution by executive order. Surely, in the name of obvious constitutional sense and law, it will rule that he or she cannot. If it rules that he may, who knows what changes to the constitution Trump will enact through executive orders in the future. Hell, he could simply scrap the old founding document altogether, and rule by presidential decree. His MAGA cult members would doubtless love nothing more.