Our acting president will have his revenge. He’s sworn to it. Getting even is one of the few rules Donald Trump lives by (only self-serving ones, naturally). With Bill Barr riding shotgun at the Department of Justice, there will be no further investigations into Trump or his campaign without Barr’s approval. Customs and Border Patrol is already getting even with Trump’s former home state of New York for being uncooperative in rounding up unauthorized immigrants. Trump is making an enemies list and checking it twice:
“It’s payback time,” a prominent Republican told me last week. “He has an enemies list that is growing by the day,” another source said. Names that came up in my conversations with Republicans included Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Mitt Romney, and John Bolton. “Trump’s playbook is simple: go after people who crossed him during impeachment.”
A source close to Trump tells Gabriel Sherman of Vanity Fair that John Bolton tops the list. The White House may attempt to quash release of Bolton’s new book. Sherman’s source says Trump wants Bolton criminally investigated.
Digby wrote yesterday about McCay Coppins’s Atlantic offering on the billion-dollar propaganda and disinformation campaign Trump’s forces have planned for you. It’s chilling. Gird your loins. *
But having just watched Jojo Rabbit, the McCoppins piece reminded me of a progressive messaging campaign that thwarted a T-party putsch to close a local library. You can read about it here. But heading into Oscars weekend it might be more entertaining to just watch a short film:
The 2011 Troy, Michigan “Book-Burning Campaign” was a clever bit of guerrilla marketing carried out in social media and on street corners. But one wonders if inviting people to a MAGA book-burning party after Trump’s reelection would even make a dent in voters’ minds now. It might simply further erode confidence in any and all news amidst what McCoppins describes as “the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history.” But I can dream.
I have no idea how to combat “censorship through noise.” We are in terra incognita. Here be dragons.
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* Update: “Grid you loins” didn’t make sense to me either.