"Is It Curtains for Donald Trump?"
As the "doominaries" are on fast fade, the new luminaries must stand ready.
The title for this blog, the picture above, and the quotation below are all borrowed from the Nation Magazine of January 15th 2021, four years ago and counting.
“Trump is about to metamorphose from the world’s most powerful human to a financially challenged pariah, a traitor who betrayed in the starkest way possible his oath of office, a coup plotter ostracized by erstwhile political allies, business partners, lenders, and media moguls. He might retain the allegiance of a fanatical portion of the GOP base, maybe even a large portion of that base, but he will no longer command a coalition capable of winning power. Moreover, he is likely going to be chased these coming years from one criminal trial and one civil damages lawsuit to the next.”
Where I come from context is everything. Seeing things in context is what gives them meaning and goes a very long way to telling where the truth resides, and most essentially the objective truth.
The objective truth has been greatly abused in our times, as it is the only way liars, despots, and tyrants can sustain their wicked ways and endless wars. Public apathy plays a crucial role, as does historical illiteracy and a thoroughly corrupted mainstream media. These compounding factors—the "anothers"—are eroding our societies from within.
One of the greatest challenges we face is the ability to demand and act upon the truth of our times. We must also recognize the presence of powerful and deeply entrenched forces working tirelessly to ensure that the truth remains untold. This is a tension fundamental to every society which ultimately determines its viability and fate.
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." – William Shakespeare
It is deeply disturbing to read this article four years later and see that that trump is back more bellicose, more powerful than ever and surrounded by another cabal of war mongering“doominaries.”
The reverberations of history are the sinkholes of our existence, running undetected and ignored like subterranean rivers. The echoes of World War II still linger. The assassinations of Kennedy, King, and others in the 1960s continue to haunt the American psyche—unresolved and unreconciled. The rise of Trump, or some facsimile, has been decades in the making. Rolling insurrections gather momentum, threatening governmental collapse, and demagogues feast on the remnants of a spoiled Republic, desperately attempting to resuscitate a lost empire."
The door opened for Trump’s ascendancy when Hillary Clinton ran for the presidency. If the Democratic party wanted to have a lock-down on the presidency they had to at least run credible candidates. Clinton running in 2016 was a bad choice as she was an easy target for Trump, helped by her making her own unforced errors.
Running Joe Biden in 2020 was another unforced error and was even easier pickings for Trump in 2024. Trump’s rise to power owes much to the failings of the Democratic party. The fractious omnipotence he now enjoys signals the failure of party systems and democracy—at home and abroad— another story for another time.
Trump is pushing the US into a corner where it could have a complete loss of international standing as no nation will trust America’s word. Even now there are many asking: Who is really in charge in Washington? Trump’s bellicosity and aberrant behaviors are accelerating the empire’s decline and turning it into a pariah state scorned and isolated from the international community.
Is it curtains for Trump? History is a constantly evolving matrix—a web of cyclical and immutable parameters, tested and repeated throughout time. Humankind are its authors, weaving this tapestry with all our follies. Yet, history’s prescience cannot be ignored or violated. It is an equilibrium, a self-righting ship navigating stormy seas.
Trump’s “ship of state” is unseaworthy, its course steered by “doominaries” who are running it a ground. As the tides of history inevitably turn, the new luminaries must stand ready to guide the vessel toward rejuvenating waters.
Political leadership must essentially be of and for our times. In the Collective West there is an ongoing crisis of leadership that has persisted for too long and the malignancy has yet reach an essential turning point where ships of state of too many nations must correct their courses.
There are many complex reasons the Collective West is in this mess — all undeniably of our own making. Historians will spend the next century analyzing and explaining. There are too many ruinous ideologies running out of control with no regard for their social impacts. Among the foremost are imperialism, neocolonialism, neoliberalism, and militarism—Along with the moral exhaustion of too many wars and corruptions. For example, It is deplorable that political bribery is so openly and so flagrantly practiced and tolerated.
For the intransigent West it is curtains time on too many fronts.
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In the shadow of these corrupt entities, many are turning to community building, and I think that's a good idea. Those in power are not looking out for our best interests, so we have to look after each other. Luckily, we have lots of resources and examples to work from.
The full extent of the corruption and bribery is illustrated by a chart in Senator Murphy's video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hycoCYenXls
As illustrated in Pankaj Mishra's book "Age of Anger," fascism seems to be the logical end-point of western philosophic thought, leading through Italy to India's Modi, and the arrival of fascism in the US via the Spanish fascist Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei which leads to the Federalist Society and Billy Barr's work to entrench a unitary presidency (in 45's term). This is spelled out in Craig Unger's book "American Kompromat." Most of history lies unread, and the unread lie about history. (that's my quote, no other source)