Trump, Declining

ON THAT INFAMOUS DAY when Trump incited an insurrection, then watched it and rooted for it on television in the White House, he never called out the National Guard because, as he said, he lacked the authority to do so. That, of course was a lie, and he knew it at tht eime.He didn't want the National Guard, the police,or the military, nor anyone else to get in the way of his attempt to overthrow the government, after all. Flash forward to the other day, and compare his newly discovered powers aggressively employed, calling out the National Guard in Washington D.C., even though there was absolutely no reason to do so, other than Trump's desire to give the world a dramatic display of his power. His threat to activate the guard in other major American cities makes the situation even more alarming. It meshes perfectly with Trump's growing simmilarities to Hitler and Mussolini. The streets of Washington have been full of uniforms for days now, and still, there seems to be no hesitation on the part of MAGA-nation to placidly accept it. Opponents of Trump, which is now a majority of Americans, don't seem to be terribly upset about it either, at least not to the point of taking to the streets in mass protests. Still, overall, its not a popular tactic by Trump, and one wnders what the public reaction will be if and when our demented leader decides to extend his militarization of America all across the fruited plain. Somehow, you sense that the willingness of we the American people to tolerate very much of this idiocy is quite, quite limited. Trump's choice of when to mobilize the military and when not to is demonstrably insane, ass backwards, a clear threat to democracy and the American government. The fact that Trump returned from Alaska with nothing to show for ti other than his willingness to be manipulated by Putin does not help his approval ratings, and the determined desperation with which the Republicans are determined to rig the congressional districts in Texas clearly indicate an obsessive, urgent desire to keep Trump in office, and to keep his policies in effect,long after he is gone. Trump's taking the side of Putin, as he certainly seeems to be doing, will further harm his job approval rankings. It cannot be emphasizedenough that not only are Trump's policies and Trump himself despised by a clear majority of Americans, but so are the policies and agenda of the Rebpublican party and the Christian conservative movement generally. For that reason, there ahs never been a better time than now to attack the MAGA movement with an avalanche of facts, and great persistence in calling out their lies. It is difficult to imagaine, at this point,Trump and MAGA gaining many if any new supporters. It is not so dfficult at this point to imagine Trump and MAGA losing popularity, as members gradually jump ship, fleeing from Trump's ongoing disastrous administration. It seems almost a certainty that over the next few weeks and months,inflation will g et worse. Trump'll have a hardtime convincing people thatitis notreal, ornot his fault. Presidents get blamed for the economy, always. Trump is already starting to try to sell the American people the nonsense that inflation is somehow good for America. Good luck with that. Even if his hard core MAGA cult members are willing to so drastically suspend their meager powers of discernment as to drink this koolaid, the vast majority of Americans, being reasonably intelligent, are almost certainly not. Or so we must hope....