Trump's Far -Right Army Is Threatening Bloodshed. Believe Them.

- Trump's Far- Right Army Is Threatening Bloodshed. Believe Them. Thom Hartmann, Common Dreams, July 5, 2024. Ed.

We must not only resist, but prevail. If we don't, it will be nearly impossible to reverse the course that America’s Right wing billionaires have set us on.
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Kevin Roberts, who heads the Heritage Foundation (largely responsible for 'Project 2025') just implicitly threatened Americans that if we don’t allow him and his hard-right movement to complete their transformation of America from a democratic republic into an authoritarian state, there will be blood in the streets.

“We’re in the process of taking this country back,” he told a TV audience, adding:

“The reason that they are apoplectic right now, the reason that so many anchors on MSNBC, for example, are losing their minds daily is because our side is winning. And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” He’s not wrong. America has been changed as a result of a series of corrupt rulings by Republicans (exclusively; not one of the rulings has been joined by a Democratic appointee) which have changed America’s legal and political systems themselves.

As Roberts notes, this is really the largest issue we all face, and our mainstream media are totally failing to either recognize or clearly articulate how radically different our country is now, how far the Republicans on the Court have dragged us away from both our Founder’s vision and the norms and standards of a functioning, modern democratic republic. These actions — corporate personhood, money as speech, ending the Chevron deference to regulatory agencies, and giving the president life-and-death powers that historically have only been held by kings, shahs, mullahs, dictators, and popes — have fundamentally altered the nature of our nation.

First, in a series of decisions — the first written by that notorious corporatist Lewis Powell (“Powell Memo” 1971) — Republicans on the Court have functionally legalized bribery of politicians and judges by both the morbidly rich and massive corporations. So, they’ve overthrown over 240 years of American law and legalized bribery. Last week they also gutted the ability of federal regulatory agencies to protect average people, voters, employees, and even the environment from corporations that seek to exploit and pollute. In the Trump immunity case, the Court ruled that presidents are immune from prosecution under criminal law, regardless of the crimes they commit, so long as they assert those crimes are done as part of their “official” responsibilities.

And who decides what’s “official”? The six Republicans on the Supreme Court.

America 2.0 is not a democracy; it’s an oligarchy.

It will be months or more likely years before these new powers begin to dawn on most Americans. Step-by-step they will transform this country into something more closely resembling Hungary or Russia than the democracies of Europe and Southeast Asia...
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