TWGB: Are We New to This?

 

Trump "ReTruthed" a comment regarding civil war on his lil' Mastodon knock-off, and yes, it is pretty serious that he's endorsing the idea after an attempted coup and on the same weekend he's shared a CPAC event with a notorious racist (I mean, among other notorious racists, c'mon....) but to be quite honest--there have been echoes of civil war with Trump for a very long time. This is definitely not the first time, and it hasn't even been subtle. 

"Civil War" was even a branded clothing item worn at the 1/6 insurrection. This isn't new, and long past disturbing. 

This is why I don't doubt the story that Trump suggested that MI elections official Jocelyn Benson be tried for treason for not overturning the results in that state. It is partially a joke to call Trump the "MAGA king", but in his mind, this person who likes to talk about shooting people in the legs--is it too far out to think he might declare "Off with her head!" like some demented monarch? 

It also isn't so far out to think he directed State Department officials to meet with activists pushing, let's be entirely clear, fraudulent election fraud narratives. How in the hell is that State Department business? you might ask, if you didn't already know Trump's attitude was "L'etat c'est moi." 

It's that his people respond as if he is that--not that he thinks he is, or what he endorses, that has to fuck with your mind. That the spouse of a Supreme Court justice actively involved herself with the state legislators of Arizona to try and accomplish what Trump was trying to do in Michigan, in Georgia, what Eastman was corresponding with Pennsylvania state legislators to try to do--namely overturn the will of the voters on the basis of lies about voter fraud, displays the mindset of people no longer willing to stay inside the law of this nation, but who are carrying out a kind of Trump law. 

Certainly, I want to know more about Trump's handwritten notes to John Eastman to see in what capacity Eastman was acting on Trump's behalf (and whether this implicates both of them in a criminal conspiracy). I also wonder what details Roger Stone was discussing in his chat with just an awful lot of people involved in the 1/6th melee. The DOJ wants transcripts from the 1/6th committee, and it certainly sounds like Rudy Giuliani, Trump's erstwhile free lawyer and main election denialist, just delivered 9 hours of something beyond just responding "executive privilege" or "attorney/client privilege" or the ever popular "I plead the 5th". It will shed more light on what already looks damning as hell.

But this "civil war" ReTruth--this is what Trump has hinted at all along. Along with teasing out a thread in the Republican party that was just a little too comfortable with fascism. It will be a war against democracy in America, for the benefit of white Christians--the people he told "You won't even have a country anymore" if he lost. The ones who started talking about "taking back" their country oh, about when Barack Obama was elected, and who Trump baited with birtherism. 

We have all the evidence we've ever needed to take him both literally and seriously.