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Part One: What a Trump Presidency Means for Americans Opposed to Him
If not liking him has led to promises of ‘retribution,’ what will an attempted murder lead him to do to us?
KHANNNN!
Remember Captain Kirk’s scream, which defied physics and echoed throughout space and time? If you don’t, it’s okay. It was an “ikhanic” scene, as Trekkies like to say, and with the growing likelihood — unless we stop him! — of a second Trump presidency on the rise, I think it could be helpful to discuss what this could mean for “the rest of us,” the non-cultists who truly think (know) that he was the worst president in our history and will end our democracy.
TRUMMMP!
The bad boy, the ultimate outsider, is now the quintessential insider. The Republican Party is no more, and as I wrote yesterday, it is the Trump Party, plain and simple. Nothing Trump or the Republicans-now-turned-MAGA is offering is good for our country. 36,000 MAGA the other day liked and shared a post from one cult member that said, “I want a dictatorship, and Trump is my choice.” It was viewed seven million times. Donald Trump’s party will end our democracy under the guise of saving it.
This historical narrative is well-known, and we know how that turned out. While the…
