All Hail King Trump
By: Cynthia Dagnal-Myron
Tags: Democrats, Republicans, Trump, Politics, Election 2020

This is just a rant. Not a “story,” really. Just shooting from the hip…

But I bet a whole bunch of you will nod and say, “Yup.” The ones of you who are as terrified as I am right now.

So, let’s just get to it.

For weeks I’ve been trying to figure out what on Earth Trump must be holding over the heads of all these Republicans to keep them toeing that line so steadily for so long.

Decent folks, most of ’em. Who know the damage he’s done. The damage he’s doing.

They know how wrong it is. How dangerous it is. How bad they look, allowing him to get away with all of this.

And yet…no one has broken ranks. Oh sure, there’s some feeble saber rattling on occasion, but it comes to nothin’.

So here’s what I think. And I’m serious about this. I just hope I’m wrong.

The Republicans know something the rest of us can’t handle thinking about yet. They know why Trump’s been cozying up to all these dictators and oligarchs and other scary monsters.

They know why he’s ignoring subpoenas, bragging as he bends and breaks laws, ignores ethics and rips the Constitution to shreds in plain sight.

They know why he’s circling the wagons, appointing sycophants to spout the party line and do his bidding no matter what the cost.

Cause this man really is putting Bannon’s plan into action. He’s going to bring down the government as we’ve known it, with help from his “friends” in Russia and elsewhere. He doesn’t know what the hell he’ll do after that, but if it saves his fat ass from going to prison, with his daughter and sons, that’ll be just fine.

His “friends” can handle the details. It’s why they chose him, after all. To dismantle Democracy and put them in the driver’s seat.

So if you’re a member of his inner circle or part of the party to which they belong, and you know what’s coming, or suspect what’s coming, you don’t want to mess with this man. Cause you have sons and daughters, too. And you don’t want to go to prison, either.

Or worse.

You want to be one of the people who gets to run things. And put other people in prison. Or one of those tent cities they’re building for “refugees.” Or Guantanamo, maybe.

Pays to be loyal to the King. And very, very dangerous not to be when he brings the hammer down. When that oft discussed Constitutional crisis finally happens and we see the courts kowtow to the King and realize we’re really and truly screwed.

Yeah. Who you gonna call when the dudes you should call are workin’ for The Man? And the courts have been packed with King’s men, too?

Welcome to your nightmare, folks.

I think the Dems know this, too, probably. They can ask tough questions at hearings and hiss into microphones when people refuse to show up for those hearings, but there’s not a damn thing they can do about any of this.

In fact, the more they hiss, the more impotent they look. And the less people are inclined to vote for a party that can’t actually control anything.

They’re decent people, too, our poor Dems. Just playing by rules Trump just chortles at, as he steps right over ’em. Like all toddlers, he’s learned the awesome power of “No.” And is reveling in it. And winning with it, too.

Gonna be a sad day when the tanks roll and the gun totin’ Maga heads rise.

The end of the American Dream as the founders dreamt it. They never dreamt there’d be a man like Trump at the helm, though.

He’s here now. Time to wake up, y’all.

The sky really is falling.