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We Meet the Enemy and He Is Trump: Facing Our Fix It or Fascist Future [1]

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Date: 2025-06-16

The good news: Trump’s rocket-rattling, self-sanctifying unreality show tanked (pun intended). The not-so-good: with his cult running all 3 branches, we still, perforce, writhe and/or hunker beneath his wee lil’ thumb.

His one-sided, uncivil, war-like, Big Brotherly quest seeks to impose one-party rule; Los Angeles looks to be the first domino in his ‘RUINATION IS LIBERATION’ master plan.

The backstory reeks of Walter Mitty-like military maundering. Last Tuesday at Fort Bragg, our Braggart-in-Chief told a backdrop of select soldiers (no chubbies, few femmes, all evincing loyalty to his Cause) “We will not allow an American city to be invaded by a foreign enemy.”

Translation: in line with the undead J6 juggernaut, “We” will not let ostensibly free citizens impede our Trumping of the vote! So, get used to My Royal “We!” And bow, scrape, and kowtow to “We” who must be obeyed! (Or else!!!)

Whoa. Even our Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman begs to differ. Dan Caine avers (under oath) “I don’t see any foreign, state-sponsored folks invading.” (Between the lines: while spewing yet another triple cheese whopper, Trump jerks us into a ditch, if not a chasm. If General Caine can implicitly resolve that, surely we all can.)

And there’s more. Having smeared and belittled our fallen heroes as “suckers” and “losers,” Mister Bone Spurs’ “foreign enemy” fib at Fort Bragg effectively played his captive audience for precisely those two things. (Shame on him.)

Here’s the thing. Our Achilles Heel has long been the potential for some dread demagogue from the same mold as US Senator “Low Blow Joe” McCarthy (R-WI) to win the top spot- and then turn our White House into his personal palace.

Two words: it’s happened.

And yes, the past is prologue. Deploying the Third Reich’s infamous “Big Lie” technique, McCarthy smeared. Spread fear. Wrecked lives. And maimed the body politic.

Then, in June, 1954, Army lawyer Joseph Welch faced McCarthy’s counsel, the 27-year-old Roy Cohn (who later became Trump’s mentor, role model, and consigliere, small world). In a shot heard ‘round the realm, Welch blew back at McCarthy, “You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you no sense of decency?”

Aside to General Caine and to all others in uniform: ten-hut. Trump to the contrary notwithstanding, our Supreme Law effectively posits all aspiring homegrown tyrants as foes. Aside to all Dems, indies, ostriches, and decent Republicans: where are our Joseph Welches?

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