Remember when the right wing exploded because presidential candidate Barack Obama’s pastor once yelled “God damn America!”?
Well, take a look at the hatred against America coming from today’s right led by former President Trump.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), is on tape saying that America is “so dark and depraved.” Trump famously described America as sick and defined by “American carnage.”
As we enter the 2024 election cycle, columnist William Galston writes in The Wall Street Journal that he “shivers” with fear that a Trump return to the White House will “trigger the biggest threat to constitutional governance [in the U.S.] since the Civil War.”
Long ago, hatred led the southern states to break away and form an anti-American confederacy. Today, we are watching Trump encourage his own rebel hatred of America, and it poses the biggest threat to constitutional democracy since the Civil War.
There is no way to downplay Trump’s disdain for the pillars of America political stability.
The Washington Post and New York Times now report that Trump is already planning to use the U.S. military against political opponents who demonstrate in the streets if he returns to the White House. Those plans include going after former staff who now express alarm about him.
He wants “the Justice Department to investigate …[former]allies who have become critical of his time in office…,” the Post reported.
Last week, Trump seemed to confirm those stories when he said that once he is back in power, he will “root out” what he called “vermin” in the U.S. He specifically targeted people willing to deny his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
Trump is constantly undermining public trust in the nation’s courts by lashing out at judges, prosecutors and even court officers involved in the four indictments he faces on 91 criminal charges. That includes the First Amendment protection for a free press.
Trump was recently quoted as saying American should “take my words to heart. I believe the press is the enemy of the people.”
“He’s using this language,” said ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl, who spoke to Trump for a new book. “This language out of the Third Reich — ‘enemy of the people.’”
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Hatred of America and Americans, fueled by the incitement of violence and stochastic terrorism, is winning in the Republican Party.
It is the real platform for Trump, the party’s front-runner for its presidential nomination.
