My Turn: Next Trump term promises disinformation, revenge and romance
Published: 10-28-2024 4:37 PM |
From the look of things, if he wins the presidency, Trump’s next term will be “The Revenge Tour.” And recently he is also talking about using the military to go after those he deems “enemies within,” in his personal view. He’s talking about his political opponents, of course.
He is actually saying these things. On TV. You can find it on YouTube, CNN, Fox, C-Span, everywhere. Even his former chief of staff, John Kelly, said Trump “prefers the dictator approach to government.” Yet there is no outrage from the real Americans, the ones who know more than anyone else what dictators look like because they fought a world war against one.
And we know, part of the success of the fascism effort in 1930s Germany was due to the control of the news media, the flow of news, and suspended belief. People believed what their hand-waving leader told them because they didn’t hear otherwise, and to disbelieve was to be an enemy within, soon to be taken by the military.
Well, if the future is anything like the past, we know that Trump watches only Fox and especially the morning show. He just calls in and they tell him sweet whispers, while “real Americans” watch on, longingly. Believing every word out of his mouth. All the while out on the streets there will be mass deportations and protests all across the country. People will been removed from the voter rolls en masse in liberal enclaves, and registrar clerks will be appointed by the government and must sign a loyalty oath to Trump.
But you wouldn’t know it because his new BFF Elon Musk controls Twitter/X and Starlink, and with Fox the three will likely strike a media sharing deal. All that free speech! He can continue to repeat absolute crap 24/7 about children being held in the basements of pizza restaurants, migrants eating your cats, FEMA not helping hurricane survivors because of vermin, all without being fact-checked or shut down. There will be no more truth … only what Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson say. And the people are mesmerized by their word salad meanderings.
I mean, it’s been working so far, so why stop once he becomes president? In fact, he will probably hit new heights of alternative truth glory, with no one to hold him back.
And all the while Trump’s other truth-telling, opponent-arresting buddy Vladimir Putin, rubbing his hands, waits on hold for his Mini-Me to step back into the Oval Office. Want to know what happened in there the last time, back in early 2017? Who he met with? Good luck with that. He’s the only president to pull the guest log.
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We know he met with Russian diplomats in private, and still does down in Florida. He’s called Putin seven times since, and sent him a box of face masks for COVID, while holding them back from blue states here at home. We know how they both feel about Ukraine. How the three of them, with Tucker, feel about it. Tucker went to Hungary and Russia and shopped in an empty grocery store, amazed at how cheap the food was (can you say communism?) The bromance is real.
Don’t believe the “Russia Russia Russia” connection? Apparently a binder containing highly classified info related to 2016 Russian election interference went missing at the end of Trump’s term. Closely guarded national security secrets between the U.S. and its allies may have been exposed. Boxes and boxes of top secret files gone, too. Nah, real Americans don’t care about national secrets. Not if Trump did it.
And speaking of Musk, he’s now paying to get people to vote for Trump because he wants to be the director of a new “efficiency” department that oversees all the departments that oversee his many businesses. Yay! That should work out great! Can you say corruption? I knew that you could. Meanwhile, a guy who was handing out water to people waiting in lines for hours and hours to vote was arrested.
So, I don’t know about you, but I feel I am American enough to spot a political con when I see one, and that’s what’s going on here, in a big way. In ways you wouldn’t believe. The numbers are huge. No one has ever seen a con like this con. No one. Believe me. I’m the only one. Trust me. I’m the only one.
If Trump wins, it’s possible the American experiment in democracy dies at age 250, unless we fight it.
Do yourself a favor. Before you vote on Nov. 5, Google “List of Republicans who oppose Donald Trump 2024.” You will be astounded how long that list is.
Mik Muller lives in Greenfield.