Like an alarm bell ringing out somewhere in the distant night, final warnings of Donald Trump’s fascism are drawing a least of few members of our largely sleepy political media out into the cold air, finally catching the smell of the forest fire about to engulf this nation.
therickwilson.substack.com
"Tell me, my Republican friends, exactly what part of being a Hitler fanboy is a part of conservatism? Tell me why you’re willing to vote for a man who praises dictators, autocrats, and fiends? Is it the imaginary communists lurking under your bed?
What part of conservative governance includes a vengeful president who promises military retribution against his political opponents?
How and when does reality intrude upon your comfy media bubble in your schema? Do you ever wonder to yourself when you substituted character and conservatism for fascism and fury?
Of elected Republicans, I expect absolutely nothing.
As a group, you are the most craven and morally bankrupt men and women to ever serve in elected positions. So many of you have declared in advance your outright willingness to support overturning both the law and the will of the American people to serve the fascist Trump that in a just world, you wouldn’t be in office: you would be horse-whipped in the streets.
I wouldn't say I
like the loons and fanatics who believe in Trump with a messianic fervor, but they’re just downstream political waste from the cloaca of Trump’s sewer. The ones who deserve absolute contempt are the play-acting GOP clowns who mock him behind closed doors and whisper to reporters of their cleverness in the pretense of loyalty to him. (Looking at you, Mitch.)
For the cadre of generals, willing to whisper behind closed doors, speak off the record, and without putting yourselves in the line of political fire, your service to the Constitution didn’t end when you retired."
