Like Putin and Netanyahu, Generalissimo Trump defiles humane boundaries until stopped, thus inciting defiant protests, in turn justifying more state violence—behold the recipe for “sh-thole” America
Three urgent questions frame America’s future:
1) How and when will the rash, scorched-earth, MAGA Trump war against America end?
2) How soon before mounting economic insults undermine clout, with higher inflation, even recession (tariffs, unfair taxation), slashed services (health, housing, food, alternative energy) and shortages (trade disruptions, shrunken immigrant labor); and
2) What cultural/propaganda tipping point best upends the shameless MAGA bullsh-t parade?
However the transparently bad faith Trump distraction machine surges, who doubts the force of a calculated, coherent, Project 2025 war against Americans and our institutions? The garishly overplayed media clown show obscures a systemic barrage against what MAGA can’t abide, however injurious to its freedoms. Ditto, Epstein scandals and promise-busting failures to even dent two brutal wars. Whether non-stop Trump craziness is induced theater, or evidence of senility fed by stupidity, what matters are serial outcomes to real populations under vicious assaults.
Severe polling declines, marking centrist disgust, signal Trump leverage is peaking, and more abusive, big government blunders will worsen the fray: more brutish kidnapping of immigrants, lawless, norm-busting, urban super-militarism, punitive, DOJ-driven vengeance plus massive violations of voting, civil and legal rights (especially exiled due process). All absent real life deliverables.
How many months before more panicky Republicans realize that marauding Trumpism jeopardizes their careers, beyond gerrymandering jolts. Pendulums must turn. Does a critical GOP mass think buffoons in charge pull off an operational revolution, shifting core dynamics of our national ecosystem? Decimating radically individualistic America, resistant to heavy-handed central control whatever the source, would be daunting for world-class autocrats; the blundering Trump gang only advertises how not to do it.
Violence, the ultimate double-edged sword
Systemic rightwing demolition only works if it threads the needle between causing chaos and violence while escaping all blame. With every Trumpian flaw on display – especially his inability to know limits, how much is too much—means the barrage will be overdone, done badly, spurring backlashes beyond his propaganda.
Take violence and bullying threats of violence, Trump’s favorite schemes, to divide and conquer. Sure, invading hardly crime-infested cities panders to primitive fondness for outrageous, illegal interventions against “enemies.” MAGA assumes crude state violence against riff-raff will incite violent backlashes, thus justifying further authoritarian, “law and order” controls. Ditto, weaponizing the DOJ as Trump’s retribution sledgehammer against legal dissenters practicing free speech. Throw in axing life-support programs, and outrage grows in people struggling to get by. The vicious circle of state violence to spur street violence, legal and otherwise, is the Trump evil—but to work needs far more savvy judgment and political intelligence.
In short, Loser Trump is an undisciplined risk-taker, thus the failed businessman, adulterer, and unreliable ally—the self-absorbed crusader who scorns expert input. Successful revolutions demand more than indulging gut impulses, as if the abused universe will forever stand by. The very reptilian radar that hypnotizes his cult is in high boomerang mode. No winner survives by denying a reign of failure, scorning what works and what fails. Throw in senility, defective education, malicious, psychopathic bullying, and irrational self-entitlement—all make a successful “revolution” a very long shot. If your politics crawl out of the propaganda swamp, how quickly the worm turns when offended multitudes feel betrayed, manipulated, and pissed off. Testing even MAGA limits, this replay of Trumpian malignancy is a triumph of fanaticism over finesse.
Is MAGA exhausted yet from so much winning?
Take birthright citizenship, a war against the Constitution and without amendment a certain losing bet. Or an absurd third Trump term—not only unConstitutional but palpable nonsense as health declines and senility expands. Or tariffs, laughably described not as taxes or inflation cocaine but paid by foreigners (BUT collected by the US). Or strutting ridiculous demands to dump mail-in ballots, though the Founders awarded states, with Congressional oversight, control over elections to count votes and certify totals. Beyond satire, Trump invoked the democracy-hating Putin as a ballot fairness expert. Everyone, even MAGA, gets that bad joke.
Failures mount, adding to unpopular troop invasions and secret, masked police. Here’s the cornered Chicken Little yahoo forever crying “crisis” in a void, another invented, self-defeating contradiction. Political malpractices don’t add to MAGA voters but mightily offend centrist voters. Likewise, faking it as “peacemaker” will only extend wars in Ukraine or Gaza—more egg on orange face. Trump may not always chicken out, but multiplying unmissable whoppers make him the Loser-in-chief allergic to learning. His worsening ramblings only verify sicko logorrhea, excessive fluent verbal output that both lacks meaningful content and bespeaks jumbled incoherence. Here’s a failed dealmaker plagued with the worst negotiating flaw: not knowing when to shut up.
The looming either/or dilemma
The terrifying choice is that either Trumpism is reversed or America as we know it betrays two centuries plus of innate gains and aspirations. Did the South lose the Civil War only to rise again in MAGA rhetoric – and slavery trivialized? Did not the 20th C greatly advance human rights, for children, retirees, the sick, women, the gay/trans community, and non-white minorities? This transcends lying for bullying bullshit. MAGA bullshit reworks our most fundamental stories, those marking the conquest of oppression with progress. Per Einstein, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” When bullshit, not sleazy deceptions, shift our national narratives, that propaganda corrodes from the inside.
The end of Trumpism may well come with a whimper, not a bang, thanks to aging; no duplicate clown gets away with such shameless, instantly disprovable absurd lies and projections. That nasty game is played out and nearly everyone gets it. Trump is exhausting his Pied Piper schtick, with an advancing sell-by date looming. Name one positive deliverable since January that boosts those struggling to get by. Trumpism has always been a bad faith magic trick but day by day becomes America’s indefensible bad joke. Like the phony propaganda against phantom Communists, the Joe McCarthy Cult consumed itself, an empty shell that finally shipwrecked by attacking the then sacred Army.
I doubt the Epstein scandal will do more than augment plunging approval numbers; his deranged willfulness—and refusal to back down—will do him in before he’s gone. Pontifications and wilder lies will increase as blunders dissolve political leverage. Gravity or the round globe may be impugned as the ultimate “deep, deep state” trickery. The defensive emperor gets more naked by the week. The Supreme Court may allow the illegal tariff mayhem, but that won’t stop unremitting inflation, shortages or recession. So much we hope for the humbug illogic of a “businessman” president.
When the Dems retake the House, perhaps the Senate, Trump faces serial impeachments, a mixed blessing for an attention addict. A Democratic Congress at worst inhibits this anti-America train wreck. After fierce batterings, it wouldn’t surprise me that the blowhard loser leaves the field, if decrepitude itself doesn’t finish off his term. For a fully-exposed, blustery con artist, 2028 seems a long way off.
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