* Labor is suppressed
* An abhorrence for intellectualism and the arts
* Having a fixation and an obsession with crime and punishment
There are others, too, and feel free to list them on the comment thread below. Be sure to explain them, too, for our readers' enjoyment. But I feel confident, overall, that this is a rather good list to begin our investigation into Donald Trump's time as a Republican Presidential candidate, his crazy tenure as President-Elect, and his early days as President. And within the past week or so, journalists and political observers have been tagging Trump's political tag-team with the worst name a cloistered group of government hyenas can have - they're referring to Trump, his political insiders, his cabinet, and yes, even his family, as a Kakistocracy - or, a government run by the most vile, inept, salacious, and despicable types of people.
Can we call Donald Trump by the F word yet? Is it too soon to hit him with that label or has he passed the litmus test, if there actually is such a test for an autocratic dictatorial leader.
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I get the feeling sometimes that Trump already knows he's been had - yes, this unteachable know-it-all, this fixer of things that aren't even broken, now feels in way over his head with the job of being President. Well, I tried here, on opednews.com and some other progressive liberal mags to warn not only Trump's ardent and devoted followers, but even Trump himself, that being a U.S. President is not an entry-level position. But no, it had to be a Superman to the rescue sort of thing for the Great Orange One, because he is "going to make America great again." And what exactly does Trump mean by this? How is he going to make America great? Well, as evidenced so far, he must be meaning that everything on that list above is just what he means by it all. Yes, he's been chipping away at each and every one of those areas. Even though we've never had a dictatorship in America, maybe it's time to start one - that's just the feeling I get when I watch Trump doing his political hatchet job of destroying our civil liberties, of defecating all over the Constitution, of surrounding himself with a slew of billionaire sycophants who don't have the foggiest idea of running a township, let alone a governmental superpower, and living high off the hog like white trash royalty, and although Trump's never paid taxes, presumably, he's more than happy and willing to throw the bill our way to pay for the high life he and his family are now enjoying as he's building his regime and attempting to establish a dynasty for himself, his family, and a few close friends, like, oh brother, Vladimir Putin.
There will come a time that the Republican-led Congress will realize that Donald Trump is not a Republican and never has been a Republican. As midterm elections approach and Trump does more and more to destroy the Republican Party, any Republican in the House or Senate who wants to keep the Republican Party alive will come to the epiphany that this Trump lunatic, well, he just has to go. We can't wait until Congress turns blue again to impeach him....No, we've got to impeach Trump ASAP, and that means us, the Republican Congress. Or, if not, the Republican Party will belly up and die. Are we really looking this bad? And that nutcase in the Oval Office with his cell phone, his roaming fingers, and the vocabulary of a killer whale learning the English language at Sea World, well, my my my!
The man who got elected by promising to create 25 million jobs, by spreading fear and hatred for races and ethnicities like Hispanics and Arabs, the political hack who promised to bring a much longer and sturdier prototype of the Berlin Wall to the U.S.'s southern border, well, what's he most concerned with these days? How many times he's been on the cover of Time magazine? What Stephen Colbert will say about him after the late-night local news tonight? What the SNL crew will be doing in their skits this coming weekend to make the Gropenfuhrer look like the dumbest knucklehead to ever walk the planet?
And gawd, man, isn't that Bill Mahar just about the meanest jackal of them all? Can he actually say all those things? This Freedom of Speech is way off the chain! Fake news! Fake news! Fake news! Why can't they move this White House to Florida or California?
Or has Trump been wandering around in his bathrobe all morning, moping melancholy on this cold February day about what The New York Times just skewered him about? What will the CNN and MSNBC talking heads be saying about him tonight and this evening? And which politician - either Democrat or Republican - will have the audacity to stand up to this cowardly bully today? Let's get into another middle-school-type skirmish again, just like we've done for the past untold days and nights. Meantime, let's get absolutely nothing done in the way of politics, for better or worse. After all, who cares about creating jobs? Who cares what ISIS is doing, or, for that matter, Kim Jong-un?
Give me another paper to sign, Stephen Bannon. Anything. I'll sign anything. I feel big and bad behind this desk! Hey Steve, can you shave every once in a while? At least, once every three weeks?
Say what you will about No Drama Obama. But you must admit, the guy was tough as nails and had all the emotional sensitivity of a gila monster or a salt water crocodile when it came to the press. Really, he could care less about what the media or the comics had to say about him. Nope, Barack had a job to do and he looked at the negative chitter-chatter on TV and on the Internet much like a bee keeper would look at getting honey out of a bee hive. Sure, he'd get stung a few times, but the work was worth the pain. And over time, it's even possible to build up some tolerance against the venom.
But not this Trump goofball. He wants SNL skits that make him look like a hero. He wants Jimmy Kimmel to praise him and say what kind of a wonderful guy he is; yes, in all seriousness, a true fascist wants the whole world to love him. And as more and more people begin to despise Trump because of his lies, his manipulative ways, his immaturity and irrationality, and his guise of being a primadonna con-man - well, 'The Donald' just won't be able to handle it. And this cruel artful dodger will start upping his game by adding a few more character traits to that already long list on the "white board" above.
No, a true fascist doesn't fight fire with fire. He'll fight fire with gasoline or TNT.
(Article changed on February 10, 2017 at 18:32)
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