Failed State and Trump Executive Abuses Are No Accident
Fascist Front – From Seattle Crackdown To Fake COVID Bailout
Congress Goes On Vacation, As Protections Expire During Deadly Pandemic & Economic Collapse
If I were a real historian, writer, or intellectual, I would write an extended post comparing conditions in the German Weimar Republic with today’s conditions (unemployment, economic collapse, Congressional gridlock, loss of credibility in all liberal institutions and ideas, street violence, Brownshirt crackdown, culture wars, et al) and Trump’s Fascist tendencies and overt Fascist moves.
(Note: Chris Hedges does that in the final Chapter, “Freedom”, of his book, “America, the Farewell Tour“)
The latest example is the failure of Congress to respond to the current crisis, where something like 30 million people are unemployed, millions more can’t pay the rent or mortgage and are vulnerable to eviction or foreclosure, and millions more have lost their employer provided health insurance during a deadly pandemic.
All those who oppose Medicare For All, please raise your hand for $100,000 hospital bills!
Meanwhile, Congress fails to respond. Can it get worse?
Yes.
These failure are being portrayed falsely and naively in the mainstream and even progressive media as merely standard partisan bickering.
[Update: Just 1 day – 1 day – after I make the charge, the NY Times confirms it with this:
Five days later, they run a book review with the same warning:
“When we first heard of the political myths we found them so absurd and incongruous, so fantastic and ludicrous that we could hardly be prevailed upon to take them seriously,” Cassirer would later write, before his death in 1945. “By now it has become clear to all of us that this was a great mistake.” ~~~ end update]
Instead, the Republicans in the Senate have blocked any possibility of assisting millions of Americans in distress in order to allow Trump – their Fascist leader – to take executive action in the run-up to the November election (and yes, I was warning of Trump’s Fascist tendencies, even before the Inaugural)
How many people will be duped by a check from Trump? More than the voters he and Republicans are systematically suppressing?
The actions of Senate republicans are so obviously a ploy to provide Trump with an opportunity to appear to be responding to the needs of forgotten working class Americans. That’s the message he won 2016 on.
It’s all part of the larger Trump Big Lie.
And for those who need to be reminded of how this mimics the failed Weimar Republic and rise of Hitler, please see the BBC short version.
I’m done and far too lazy to invest my time and energy in researching and laying out this analysis.
But it is so obvious to me, I’m shocked that other writers haven’t done so.
We hope they’re just getting ready to publish – or I’m missing it while on the road.