Too Little, Four Years Too Late

 The Washington Post online today:


Everyone with half a brain knew since the beginning this was going to happen.  And I don't mean the beginning of Trump's Presidency- I mean sometime around the time of Reagan, when it became perfectly obvious that the leaders of the Republican party had determined to turn the United States into an autocratic dictatorship.  And just wait- the right wing lies about it are already flowing at full flood.  Don't you know that this entire thing was orchestrated and carried out by Antifa?  That is the line all over the wingnut world today, and they all instantly believe it, just like they instantly believe any of the thousands of lies they have been fed the last half century.


Within a few days, none of them will believe that the right or Donald Trump had a thing to do with this treason, and Trump still has two more weeks to give it another try.  It was completely clear since the election that Trump was going to try to engineer a fascist coup before he was done with us, if there was any way he could convince himself that he could get away with it.


We are lucky that, this time at least, Republicans have been as incompetent as they have been treasonous, so his coup turned out to be nothing but a cartoon rendition of Boris Yeltsin staring down a tank.  Of course the ultimate coward Trump was hiding in the White House rather than leading his rebellion, but you can be sure that he is going to give this one more try before he goes away, if he is not arrested.



Comments

Poll P. said…
I am the least-surprised of all my friends, having had forty years of expert tutelage, starting with that dog-eared copy of "It Can't Happen Here." You always said, "Oh, yes it can. And will."
January 7, 2021 at 5:25 PM
Dave Dubya said…
Trump's stain on our country will be forever etched in images of caged children, body bags of covid victims, and now open insurrection.

I'm hoping this tragedy will be the high water mark of the radical Right. But I know what country we live in, and how much of it is still brainwashed and ignorant.

Our war on fascism will never end. Eternal vigilance and maximum voter participation are all we have, so we'd better keep up our struggle against the enemies of democracy and their domestic terrorist foot soldiers.
January 8, 2021 at 9:56 AM
Mostly.A.Cynic said…
Anyone surprised by this fiasco does not even have half a brain, the Y'all Qaeda MAGAts that infected the Capitol I believe all thought they would be pardoned, even praised if their Coup Klux Klan attempt if successful. So these freedumb crackers wrote on social media what they were going to do, took selfies, before and during their terrorist spree never thinking what if this fails? Yes sir they left self incriminating evidence everywhere and many are racing to delete photos and social media posts hoping they all get their just deserves and get the punishment any other terrorist would receive
January 10, 2021 at 9:07 AM
Green Eagle said…
I just posted a notice I saw calling for an even more violent fascist uprising on January 20th. It ain't over 'till it's over, and it ain't over yet.
January 10, 2021 at 11:34 AM
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