In fact, Marx's "democratic bubble" may well have already been burst asunder by President Trump's bayonet in the coming weeks and months, aided and abetted by Republican cowardice and capitulation to the denizens of the Peter Principle [see explanation below] that now rule and run the White House. This Faustian bargain that the Congressional Republicans made with Trump presupposes that it easy to deal with "the devil we know." But predicting how "my devil" will react, as the immigration executive order demonstrated, is anyone's guess. I suspect that some Republicans are having "buyers remorse" after their bargain in the mistaken belief that they could, by some political Houdini feat, control Donald J. Trump.
Trump's very hostility to the truth is causing some Republicans and some of his supporters a bit of anxiety. And it's not only Trump but also his closest handlers and enablers who speak about "alternative facts" and the Orwellian language of 1984. The man's strategy is clear: demonize and delegitimize any source of information that has the nerve to challenge or tarnish him -- from people to press. Consider the following: within minutes of being sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, Team Trump took down the climate change page from the White House's official website. This backs up Trump's claim that climate change is a hoax developed and pushed by China.
So as the United States slides rapidly into a transition that signals the end of the American experiment with a Constitutional Republic after 227 years, and the start of a new socio-economic and political phenomenon - the American dictatorship -- the only recourse is to resist.
Recall the following: President Donald Trump has made it crystal clear that upon taking the White House, he will rid the government of even low-level civil service employees who aren't loyal to him. He continues to threaten and bully the free press, even singling out reporters by name. He will use his own ever-changing, amorphous, fantasy-laden criteria to cut off entry into the United States. And it's just a matter of time before he moves to kick millions of "others" out. Trump is demonizing groups and organizations that hold him to account in a dangerous ploy to foment anger among his base, until there is no more opposition, due to fear. He's the Fear Monger In Chief because it worked for him.
American voters seriously miscalculated and believed a snake oil salesman selling a cure "for everything." But here is still hope in the midst of this bleak picture -- I still have faith in the organized masses to resist tyranny. You see, you can fool some people some time, but not all the time.
[THE PETER PRINCIPLE: "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence," and that "In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties."]
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