Any voter remorse yet?

Will our national motto become "In the Generalissimo Trump we trust"?

 

“America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

How satisfied are Trump voters with his chaotic performance thus far?  His destabilizing tariffs enable inflation rates to remain as high or higher than when he took office.  His budget bill, approved by Republican sycophants in Congress, increases the deficit by billions.  Our cost of living is becoming unbearable for millions.

How about Trump’s cavalier attitude towards the rule of law?  Legal immigrants have been deported without any due process, disregarding SCOTUS’ affirmation that these constitutional violations must stop.  

Private institutions like Harvard and any law office that represents Trump’s perceived enemies are now being threatened with financial loss by his White House

Freedom of the press is being threatened as Trump goes after TV and newspaper sources that addressed the facts which exposed Trump’s ongoing lie about the 2020 election, stolen government secrets and his relationship with dictators, especially Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Trump protégé,Elon Musk, has wreaked havoc with our federal system, threatening funding cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.  Critical agencies like the DOJ, HHS and Homeland Security, are now headed by unqualified flunkies who’ll focus more on his revenge efforts over policies that benefit Main street Americans

And lastly!  If you think you’re safe from Trump’s authoritarian behavior because you’re a conservative white christian, you might want to read what Robert P. Jones,  the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute, said about Trump’s vision for extremist Christian Nationalist groups.   

Our constitutional republic will die through our complacency and silence, not a bloody revolution.

 

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 link to the comments above in blue

higher than when he took office   -   https://theconversation.com/us-inflation-has-increased-since-trump-took-office-why-prices-are-unlikely-to-come-down-soon-249956

cavalier attitude towards the rule of law  -    https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-donald-trump-el-salvador-nayib-bukele

any law office that represents Trump’s perceived enemies   -    https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/trumps-executive-orders-against-law-firms/

financial loss by his White House   -  https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5364829/trump-administration-freezes-funds-after-harvard-rejects-dei-demands

Freedom of the press is being threatened   -    https://freedom.press/issues/three-press-freedom-threats-during-trump-20/


threatening funding cuts to Social Security,    -  https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2025/03/05/four-trump-threats-to-social-security/

Medicare & Medicaid. -  https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5000935-medicaid-cuts-potential-next-congress/

focus more on his revenge efforts   -   https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/trump-retaliation-revenge-biden-security-clearance
 

extremist Christian Nationalist groups.  -  https://baptistnews.com/article/trumps-dangerous-closing-message-to-his-white-christian-followers/

In search of our lost humanity

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire


Illegal immigration in America exists primarily because millions are forced to seek relief from physical and economic abuses in their homelands.  Climate change is now interactive also with these abuses as a warming earth deprives people of basic comforts and a means to provide for the essentials of life.

It’s absurd to think then of these people as criminals in the same vein as rapists and murderers.  They’ve risked everything to protect their families from those abuses and now find themselves treated by insensitive and sometimes brutal people here the U.S.; behavior not totally dissimilar to those who drove them from their native countries initially.  This is a notion however, that is apparently too complex for some people to grasp.

In an essay  entitled “On Hostile Coexistence with China” in May of 2019, during Donald Trump’s first presidential term, Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.), noted a view of immigrants that Trump held then remains unchanged today.

“Trump’s presidency has been built on lower middle-class fears of displacement by immigrants and outsourcing of jobs to foreigners.  His campaign found a footing in the anger of ordinary Americans – especially religious Americans – at the apparent contempt for them and indifference to their welfare of the country’s managerial and political elites.”

This strained narrative seems to have altered the thinking of many “ordinary Americans” to see freedom as something not meant for those who don’t look and think like them. They’ve become, it seems, what Isaac Asimov referred to as “a cult of ignorance”  who’ve been “nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that [their] ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”

In a conversation with C.J. Polychroniou, a political scientist/political economist, author and journalist, culture critic Henry A. Giroux noted that “Life is now a war zone and as such the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.”   

Trump has ignored the rule of law and the due process that it guaranties all who stand before it.  He has found willing accomplices in Congress and right wing organizations to diminish the American character we have come to believe in - honorable, hard-working and champions of justice.  We have innocent people here legally, on student visas and green cards, who believed in our 1st amendment right to speak freely, without recourse from government.  They have now become victims of the merging authoritarianism prevalent in most every word and deed Trump falls back  on to appease those who seem to have “put no importance to the way they are governed” and have gambled, as Albert Camus noted, “with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests’. ”

America’s destiny has once again come face to face with the grim reality that power and greed are attempting to delude the virtues we have embodied in leaders like Washington, Lincoln and FDR who put public service before personal gain.  Without it, we become unwary  victims of “free market" capitalists, influencing how we think and behave through captivating ads that project happiness and economic success in material ownership of mostly nonessential products.  Thus, an image that affects personal gains for them and their investors.

“Freedom belongs only to people, Timothy Snyder asserts in his WaPo op-ed. “It does not belong to institutions or abstractions -- and least of all to non-existent institutions or abstractions. The moment that we yield the word "free" to something besides a person, we are yielding our freedom.”    

Trump attempts to run this country much like he did as an evocative entertainer on his TV show, The Apprentice.  Acting tough in a vulgar way and demeaning people openly may get you higher TV ratings, but it becomes a divisive force when applied in our multi-cultural society.  And nothing generates hate more in the MAGAsphere than believing you’re being displaced by “those people who aren’t real Americans”.