MAGA, Coming To Terms

WORLD WAR TWO buffs are more likely than most to be aware that when the American army entered Germany in the winter of 1945 and took control of all the infamous concentration camps, Auschwitz, Dauchal, Buchenwald, Belsen, and the rest, they were so appalled by the conditions there that it inflamed their hatred Hitler and the Germans, and under General Eisenhower's orders they went door to door in town after town, searching private homes for German soldiers, and forcing the occupants to "please come with us". Thousands upon thousands of German civilians, nobody knows exactly how many, were force marched to the various camps and given a mandatory tour of the most gruesome, grizzly sights. They were, by all accounts, shocked and appalled. Eisenhower also invited and brought in every media source he could find, trying to flood the scene with journalists to accurately and thououghly document, beyond any deniability, what had actually taken place in these horror camps. Knowing the human capacity to deny and rewrite history for political and ideological purposes, and being a student of history himself, the five star general and future American president wanted to leave future generations no doubt that the nightmares of the Hitler era were very real, By the time the war ended, a high percentage of the German population had either list confidence in Hitler, or had come to despise him. But, there remained a significant part of the German people who stayed loyal to the end, and beyond. It has been suggested that when Trump is gone, as he someday will day (although it may not seem like it right now), there will be a vast outpouring of retribuation towards all those who enabled and support him, somewhat akin to the world's attitude towards NAZIs following the defeat and death of Hitler. And, to a certain extent, something like that may indeed happen. MAGA folk will never, we hope, be paraded past concentration camps, although they might be. They will no doubt, however, remain stubborn loyal to their iconic cult leadder forever, or will come to terms with their role as accmplices to turmoil, chaos, and social division and strife. They will have to come to terms, eventually, with the inevitability of the historical profession's unpleasant future descriptions of Trump. Trump is alienating an ever larger segment of the American people at a rapid pace, on a daily basis. For instance, the more he doubles down on ICE and military unites patrolling American city streets, the more the pushbaek, the greater the resentment among increasing numbers of American citizens. If all this ere being done by a Democrtic president, and trust me, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton are as warmongering as the next politician, the equal in potential tyranny to any Republican who ever lived or governed- conservative Amerca would be pitching a tizzy, so to speak, in an uproar, spilling into the streets screaming for impeachment and removal. Bank on it. But these Gestapo are "enforcing" a conservative, right wing extremist agenda, not a progressive liberal one, and therefore are replacing democray with fascism for all teh right reasons, for the only right reason; the establishment of a far right wing nationalistic expansionist government, intolerant of opposition, which is inevitably, conveniently labeled "treason" and "terrorism". The terrorists, of course, are in plain view. They are Trump, his adminsitration, and his entire MAGA support base,the insurrectionsists of twenty twenty. Since they cannot implement Trump's fascist far right agenda nor remain in power long by legal, democratic means, they will do what Hitler and the NAZIs did, which, once in power, consists of destroying and radically alterning existing institutions and norms to suit the right wing fascist agena, and to ensure its invulverability to opposition or any threats to its power. The conspiratorial sounding claim that Trump will never surrender power nor leave office willingly seems less far fetched by the moment.