Trump, Still Skating

NOW, SUDDENLY, TRUMP wants to conduct national census in the middle of the decade, unconstitutionally, five years early. He'll order it done, and it will get done, unless the courts stop him, because nobody else will. SCOTUS might back him up, as usual. Does anyone actually think that his motive is to make America better somehow? He wants to use the accumulated data to further rig next year's mid term elections, possibly as a prelude to his remaining in power until he mercifully dies. Everything Trump says and does is intended to accomplish this end; encroaching fascism, with Trump at the top of a one party system, supported by MAGA against all opposition. Imagine Trump, with a free hand, unimpeded by Congress or the courts, free to fully implement his malignant agenda, with the assistance of slightly less than forty percent of the American people. Its painful. That percentage is decreasing, gradually. Will it decrease fast enough, soon enough to matter? Nearly sixty percent of all Americans either don't support, actively oppose, or virulantly despise Trump, and you would think that would be sufficient to remove and incarcerate the criminal by due process, as indeed it should be, but alas, is not, at least yet. Madison et al set the country up to be governed by an elite, conservative minority, a wealthy "better sort" of citizen as he put it, and so it is, and here we are, stuck with the founder's archaic plutocratic system of government. At this point only a powerful mass movement consisting of tens of millions of disenchanted Americans can defeat Trump and MAGA and preserve some semblance of democracy in America. MAGA will eventually wither away, flaking off one disgruntled former Trumper at a time, until the final rotten core can be blown up, tossed into the garbage bin of history, and the remaining mess cleaned up. Its already happening, but too slowly at the moment. No matter how our great gerrymandering war finally ends, anti-Trump can outvote pro Trump, if only voters turn out in adequate numbers. Even a heavily gerrymandered Republican redistricted electoral map can overthrow the fascist regime, given sufficient anger among the electorate. "The tree of liberty will, from time to time, require the nourishment of the blood of patriots and tyrants," Jefferson adroitly observed, with tyical eloquence. Trump is the primary impediment to liberty in America today, with his cult backing him up. Blood can be spilled symbolically, at the ballot box, each vote representing a drop of blood, sweat, toil, and sacrifice. In this metaphor, those opposed to Trump's authoritarian rule must be prepared to shed a great deal of blood, at the ballot box, or elsewhere, in the streets, or wherever. We have no choice at this point but to plug everything is, and find out what fais, like a giant organic computer or machine. This is because Trump's agenda has been enacted, seemingly irreversibly. Everything that Trump does is bound to fail. Rising inflation and general economic recession should be enough to defeat Trump, but still might not be. The teflon Don is still skating, avoiding his proper, just fate, but for how much longer? Perhaps until he dies, and beyond. Most frightening of all is that, no matter how catastrophic Trump's policies and their outcome, his cult followers are likely to glorify and cherish him to the end, singing his praises as his administration either fades away in ignomony or comes crahsing down in flaming failure and defeat.