During the Impeachment Debate held on December 18, 2019 in the US House of Representatives concerning the impeachment of President Donald John Trump, Republicans compared the Impeachment [indictment] of Donald John Trump to the Trial and Crucification of Jesus Christ!
Other Republicans compared the Impeachment [indictment] of Donald John Trump to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. A day that President FDR said would “live in infamy” and compared that day of an attack by a foreign power upon on democracy to the impeachment of Donald John Trump!
One Republican congressman stated that the Impeachment of Donald John Trump was also a “day of infamy” far greater than the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor that literally killed many Americans! The utter hypocrisy of the arrogant GOP is astonishing: astonishingly evil!
This is what happens when Religion, Racism, and Radical Republicanism informed by faux patriotism and fanaticism, merges into a fully functional fascist political party dedicated not to facts and reason but, instead, by the disease of pernicious racism; fanatical religious fundamentalism and infectious Fascism into totalitarianism under the rule of a would be dictator: Trump!
We are witnessing and experiencing the merger of three aspects of evil that imperil our democratic Constitutional Republic.
It will come to be known as and called the “Trifecta of Evil”. If anything has the power to destroy our democracy it will be 1) Racism, 2) Fascism, and 3) Faux Religiosity.
Whenever we witness the merger of anti-democratic Racism, fascism, and fanatical fundamentalist Christianity based upon radical interpretation of religion, our Constitutional Republic, based upon the egalitarian democratic principle of the Rule of Law, is in jeopardy!
As the Trifecta of Evil, the merger of Religious fanaticism; Racism and Fascism are combined into the singular expression of Hypocrisy! It is political, religious and racial hypocrisy that endangers our democracy!
We stand on the precipice of a cliff that overhangs totalitarianism founded upon the idea that the Rule of Law is not applicable to President Donald John Trump. It is falsely based upon the premise that Donald John Trump is “above the law”!
The infamous Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel [OLC] memorandum that asserts that “a sitting president cannot be indicted while in office” is an abomination to our constitutional republic. It stands in complete opposition to the the fundamental democratic principle of the Rule of Law which informs our constitutional understanding that “no one [not even a sitting President] is above the law”.
Such a premise is wholly contradictory to our Constitutional Republic based upon the Rule of Law.
The Fanatical Christian Fundamentalists [calling themselves evangelicals], see Trump as their “Messiah”, [replacing the original one], someone who, in their deranged state of religious zealotry, will lead them to the “promised land” of a Christian Nation.
Never mind that America was never founded upon the concept that it was a Christian nation. The Founding Fathers, most of them slave-owning racists, established a Constitutional Republic based upon the “separation of church and state”. They did so deliberately, to prevent the corruption of the Constitutional Republic into a theocratic state dominated and ruled by the religious fanaticism they experienced in the Europe [amongst other places] from which they migrated. Always remember, and never forget, America is a nation of immigrants [not all of them White, either]!
The Racists in the GOP [Greed Over Principle], see Trump as their “Great White Hope”. Someone who will lead them to the resurrection of the Confederate States of America in which people of color can again be enslaved and deemed to be the “property” of white people. A confederacy in which democracy is reserved singularly and wholly for White Men [and perhaps women, too]!
The fascists in the GOP, the elite leadership of of the Republican Party, see Trump as a useful puppet that they can manipulate into achievement of their goal of a fully functional fascist state dominated and controlled by corporate power. Those GOP “leaders” are singularly motivated by GREED [Get Rich Eviscerating Everything Democratic] and POWER!
Under such a scenario, all three aspects of the modern Republican Party envision the utter decimation of the US Constitution into a meaningless document devoid of any and all democratic impulse and principle reduced to meaningless words on paper that are rendered subservient to the rule of Emperor Trump!
And, make no mistake about it, Trump seeks to become a dictator; to rule without necessity of democratic elections or encumbered by any co-equal branch of government that cannot fetter his power as an absolute despot!
We are in grave danger! Our Democracy is in grave peril. If the GOP prevails and their “vision” of government prevails, our democracy is doomed to the trash heap of history and we and our “posterity” will no longer live in a nation wherein the Rule of Law gives us hope that we can “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”!
The 2020 election is pivotal. Unless every single American dedicated to our Constitutional Republic votes in 2020 to oust Trump and send a message to the fascist Republican Party that No One is Above the Law, we will be living in a fully functional fascist state ruled over by the trifecta of Fanatical Religious zealots; Pernicious Racists and Fascists!
The choice, perhaps the last choice, is ours!