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WAS JANUARY 6, 2021 AN ACCIDENT, A CONSPIRACY, OR OUTRIGHT TREASON

So many obstacles are getting in the way of Donald John Trump facing the consequences of his nefarious conduct. One would be tempted to conclude that there is some hidden puppet master behind the curtain of reality, pulling all the appropriate strings. The Fulton County Appeals Court has postponed the Rico case against Trump and his co-conspirators until further notice.

WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday paused the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of seeking to subvert the 2020 election while it considers the former president’s bid to disqualify lead prosecutor Fani Willis, a court order showed. The order prevents the sprawling case against Trump and 14 co-defendants from moving toward trial while Trump appeals a judge’s ruling allowing Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, to remain on the case. It is another indication that the case, one of four facing Trump as he seeks to unseat President Joe Biden and return to the White House, will not go to trial before the Nov. 5 election. A New York jury last week found Trump guilty of trying to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star, a verdict that Trump has vowed to appeal. The two federal cases against him, for trying to overturn his defeat and mishandling classified documents after leaving office, have also been bogged down by legal challenges. TRUMP Election Interference Case Paused In Georgia During Challenge To Prosecutor By Andrew Goudsward, June 6, 2024.

Many people have some theories regarding this unfolding phenomenon within American society today, and they are as follows:

Donald Trump is going full fascist these days, and gaining the backing of prominent billionaires as he runs for re-election. We need a loud pro-democracy movement in America more than ever. Robert Reich 

To dismantle the threat of fascist politics in the U.S., the people must emerge from denial that it has taken root. Fighting fascism must become a regular topic of conversation in homes, schools, media and everywhere else discussions about the future of the nation take place. So concludes political scientist Anthony DiMaggio in his new book “Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here.” The sub-title refers to Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 dystopian novel, “It Can’t Happen Here.” To be clear, I am not arguing that the United States is a fully consolidated fascist country—equivalent in its political institutions to what existed in Germany and Italy between 1922 and 1945,” writes DiMaggio. “The United States is not a one-party dictatorship. Rather, the concern is with the threat of a rising fascistic movement to the stability of the republic, which is to say that undercurrents, or elements of fascistic politics in America have steadily grown more extreme in recent decades, particularly in recent years under Trump’s presidency.” Trump “…rose to power because of the longstanding cultivation of racist, authoritarian, and xenophobic beliefs on the American right in the years and decades running-up to his election in 2016,” writes DiMaggio. FASCISM IN AMERICA: It’s Happening Here By Lori Friedman June 8 2022

Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In American Fascists, Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the National Book Award finalist War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, challenges the Christian Right’s religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society. Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government to subvert it. The movement’s call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools. The movement’s yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America. AMERICAN FASCISTS: The Christian Right And The War On America By Chris Hedges January 9, 2007

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By Parameciumcaudatum

I've worked as a clergyman, clinical psychologist, and building contractor. I write for leisure. Presently I reside in one of Ghana's most rural suburbs, although I visit the U.S.A. frequently.

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