Ad Infinitum
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/opinion/donald-trump-2024.html
('He Has Nothing Else': Our Writers on Trump and the 2024 Election)
Who says if Trump wins we will have to survive ONLY four more years in the darkness?
Since every conceivable constraint on this man's intentional desecration of the framework of our democracy has proven ineffective deterrent, what makes anyone believe that the completion of a second term would mark the quiet and peaceful exit of Mr. Trump from the Oval Office? January 6th, 2021 may one day be remembered merely as act one, the prelude for the main event: the taking of America.
Does it require anything but the smallest sliver of imagination to conceive of the possibility that given the opportunity, Donald Trump would not manufacture reason to discard the 22nd Amendment like an old chew toy, to declare that he alone can save our country from immolation, to magnanimously agree, at great personal sacrifice, to remain our commander in chief until his death do us part, or at least until he can star in another season of The Apprentice?
For all of us who fear the worst in 2024, if we can't imagine the world according to Trump continuing ad infinitum, ad nauseam, we are burying our heads in the sand.
Trump's campaign slogan might well most accurately be:
"Vote for me. Not for four more.
Forever."
Trump has surrounded himself with draconian Heritage Foundation people capable of perpetrating a fraudulent "national emergency" as Hitler did. Looking back at his first 4 years, Democrats should never have allowed Trump's "acting" department heads to take office. Trump's plan was to side-step congressional approval by attaching the word "acting" to many of his departmental appointments, thus paving the way for the hiring of incompetent staffers for mid-level departmental positions within our government. It will take a generation to get rid of them. It keeps me awake at night. --RE
Scary insightful thoughts. Thanks for posting.
Howie