When people started bailing out of the government after Trump stole the election, I was very critical of them. Usually, resigning your office was a form of protest and would put pressure on the people above you. A lot of pundits called for government officials to use this strategy. I always believed that Trump didn’t give a f#$k about political pressure, his goal was to get his people in control of as much of the government as possible so he could bury investigations and hide crimes. I also thought that people should be operating from the inside to whistle-blow and leak information to the press. Apparently some people are doing just that.
Walter Schaub has been one of the few people I’ve seen who is doing much more for his country from the outside than what he could do from the inside. From January 9, 2013 to July 19, 2017, he was the director of the United States Office of Government Ethics. He has been really great on twitter calling out all kinds of ethics violations by the GOP authoritarian cult.
Today, a couple of his tweets are on the money and show how the American public has yet to wake up to the danger we all face.
I think most people here know that Trump is going to get a lot worse as we approach the election. Trump knows he can’t win a fair election, so the only question is, how is he going to try and steal it? Remember, the Trump/Putin/GOP fascist cult has already cancelled 5 primaries. Imagine if a few dozen Republican county secretaries across the country decide to postpone the general election until they can be sure the system hasn’t been tampered with. You can let your imagination run wild as to the types of chaos the Trump/GOP cult can cause with our elections.
I’ve never liked all the marches that have happened since Trump stole the W.H. I believe they kind of wore people out, there were so many of them, and they never participated in the non violent type of civil disobedience that MLK and Gandhi might have thought were necessary. But the time is coming where we will need to take to the streets in massive protest in order to save our democracy. Be prepared for that day.
RESIST!