America needs an altar call
What’s happening in Los Angeles, driven from Washington, DC and backed by statements from Donald Trump’s officials, reveals more than their rot and corruption. It puts on display their intent to replace a 250-year-old representative democracy with an authoritarian state with Christian-nationalist pretentions. It reveals their rejection of our American faith.
The president’s homunculus, Stephen Miller, declared Saturday on social media that Los Angeles protests against militarized immigration raids were “an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.” The unelected Mr. Miller rejects everything America’s Declaration, Constitution and values represent. As do his co-conspirators, Miller speaks for himself under the aegis of a president who neither understands nor values the heritage of the republic Americans foolishly entrusted him with safeguarding. Twice. This administration is dedicated to the proposition that all men are not created equal, but to be ruled. By them.
The creation of fake emergencies, like the pretext for sending the National Guard into Los Angeles, is classic, explains Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a scholar of authoritarian regimes. This guy tattoos himself with Crusader symbols.
The lack of self-awareness from a president who has taken bribes, defied federal court orders, pardoned convicted insurrectionists, murderers and white-collar criminals, and dispatched masked police to snatch people off the streets without due process in violation of Constitutional rights is beyond stunning.
I offer the clip below, now five years old, in contrast with the phony Americanness of the men and women serving in slavish devotion to the anti-American movement based in the Trump White House. They’ve lost their way. They’ve sold their American souls, if ever they had them.
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