THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF JANUARY 6, 2021 INSURRECTION/TOURIST VISIT/FAMILY PICNIC

by Vijaya Chandrasoma

Donald Trump held a “Commit to Caucus Rally”, in Newton, Ohio yesterday, to memorialize the third anniversary of the failed Stop the Steal assault on the Capitol by his white supremacist supporters on January 6, 2021.

An in-depth report from the Economist cites a survey conducted by Denison University political scientist Paul Djupe, that around 30% of Americans believe that Trump was sent by God to save America.

According to white Evangelicals, God had played a part in the election of all past US presidents, except for President Obama, who was a Satan appointee. Americans believed that God had specifically chosen Trump for the presidency in 2016, because he seemed to be the perfect choice to guide His thrice-blessed nation to its manifest destiny of a white Christian haven. However, He appears to have made a divine miscalculation in his choice of Trump, who has proved to be a whining loser since 2020.

Or have we been unable to comprehend the ultimate divine wisdom of God’s Plan? Only time will tell.

The violence unfolding during the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol, as seen live on TV by everyone whose eyes were connected to their brains instead of Trump’s ass, was a savage insurrection of white supremacists, wearing horned headdress and Trump T-shirts, carrying confederate and TRUMP flags. Terrorists threatening to hang Vice-President Pence, having already built a gallows for the purpose on the premises, to kill Speaker Pelosi and all the lawmakers the mob was able to get their hands on.

A riot that resulted in five deaths and hundreds of injuries; millions of dollars’ damage to the Capitol, the seat of the nation’s government and one of its most iconic buildings; and the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of more than 1,100 rioters, most of whose defense was that they had been incited to attack the Capitol by Trump.

The week after the insurrection was repulsed, Senior Republicans, whose very lives had been threatened, had a vivid memory of the violence of that terrible day. They accused Trump, from the floor of the Congress, of inciting the brutal insurrection to prevent the constitutional transfer of power to President-elect Biden. They demanded accountability from Trump in the face of his evident guilt of incitement to violence. Those who so excoriated Trump included then Republican Senate and House leaders, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, current Speaker, Mike Johnson, Senator Leslie Graham and several other prominent Republicans.

Then the recollections of these craven Republicans had a miraculous transformation of memory.

They became terrified that their public opposition to Trump and his base, attacking him for his treason on January 6, may cost them what is most dear to their hearts – re-election. Their commitment to the truth, their oath to uphold the Constitution, be damned.

The current whitewashed recollections of the January 6 insurrections are best described by Republican Congressman Andrew Clyde: “Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes and taking videos and pictures”.

Trump has since been found guilty of sedition for incitement to an insurrection against the United States after a year-long Congressional inquiry. He has also been indicted, arrested and on bail on four indictments and 91 felonies, including sedition, espionage and obstruction of justice, inter alia, in four separate jurisdictions.

The aftermath of the January 6 events has not brought the action immediately expected of any civilized country governed by the Rule of Law – the swift prosecution and imprisonment of all those responsible for an act of treason against a legally elected government.

The outcome in the USA has been the complete opposite. The former president, the leader of the insurrection to overthrow a legally elected government and to cling to power, walks free three years later, disgraced, impeached, indicted, arrested and on bail on 91 felonies, but still free. Free to spew his vitriolic, Hitler-like rants before adoring crowds of white supremacist neo-Nazis. Incredibly, this vulgar criminal remains a primary candidate to win re-election of the presidency, which he attempted to violently overturn in 2021, come November 2024.

A significant part of the nation has been corrupted by this white supremacist maniac, who will keep on fanning the racist flames while he keeps on pouring gasoline to keep them afire. A strategy which seems to be working, bringing to the surface the vast majority of white supremacists in fear of losing their white privilege with the invasion of brown-skinned vermin. Hitler may have failed, but his anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant white supremacist movement has been reborn throughout the western world, very much so in the greatest democracy the world has seen, the United States of America.

The corrupt, six/three Rublican majority Supreme Court of the United States was scheduled to rule, on January 5, 2024, on the extent of immunity available to a sitting president from prosecution for any crime committed during his incumbency.

This is a ruling that could enable any future president, who, having lost the election, could go berserk, commit any crime, including an attempt to topple the government, during his Lame Duck period – the 12-week period between the day of his defeat at the November election and the Inauguration of the President-elect on January 20 the following year. Over 12 weeks with the awesome powers of the presidency, in spite of having been roundly rejected by the electorate, with total immunity for any crimes committed throughout the term of presidency.

These changes represent a total repudiation of the original reason for the Revolutionary War (1775-83), when patriots in the original 13 colonies waged war against the cruel yoke of King George III of Great Britain, resulting in the formation of an independent American nation.

The American Revolution was waged against the rule of a foreign monarchy. And the Constitution of the new and independent nation was drafted as “The Great Experiment of Democracy”.

The presidency of Donald Trump has highlighted the obvious flaws in this Great Experiment, especially a total lack of public confidence in its elections, the cornerstone of any vibrant Democracy.

Perhaps the time is ripe, as suggested by Trump and his cult, to terminate an outdated Constitution, replace it with the Bible and establish an alternate form of government more in keeping with the nation’s white Christian traditions, especially in the face of an insidious invasion of brown-skinned immigrants.

Perhaps the United States is ready to maintain its status of white supremacy, for a system of government with a King, beholden not to the rule of earthly law but to the heavenly commandments of the Christian God. A Monarch of the home-grown variety, the head of a form of divine government of white Christians, devoid of petty restrictions like free speech and press, environmental protections, term limits, even the rule of law.

Much like the ancient British House of Windsor, America will have its own Orange Dynasty of Trump. After the job of Making America Great Again, Americans can rename their nation “Great America”, and change their national anthem to “God Save The Donald”, with appropriate lyrics; to be performed at the coronation of King Donald I by the January 6 Jailhouse Choir, sung in the background of Trump taking the Oath of Allegiance, waving an upside down Bible he has never read.

Post-Trump Republicans have become most adept at rewriting the history of the nation, especially whitewashing its history of genocide, slavery and the current infestation of immigrants. We are all aware of Trump’s conviction that brown-skinned immigrants, vermin who poison the blood of white people, are the cause of all that ails the nation – crime, drug addiction, murder and rape, which Trump will eradicate by closing the nation’s borders and enforcing mass deportation of all illegal immigrants. Hitler’s concept of the Final Solution is also not off Trump’s table.

Trump’s two leading rivals for the Republican nomination, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, have their own uniquely imaginative versions of the nation’s chequered and violent past. They had both been tiptoeing around Trump’s criminal past, and have only during the past week have been criticizing Trump on his indictments and 91 felonies. If they were serious opponents, they should have been shouting about these serious criminal charges from the rooftops, right from the beginning of their presidential campaigns,

They both seem to be either playing for the VP spot (Haley), 2028 or more likely, the hope that the Trump candidature will implode and burst into criminal flames.

During the 11 months left before the election, Trump will have a busy schedule. Besides running a presidential election campaign, he will have to present himself in court in four jurisdictions to defend himself on 91 serious felonies. An impossible schedule, which, with the help of a compliant Supreme Court, will enable him to delay a conviction, which is the real victory he is seeking. If he wins re-election, as seems likely now, all these criminal trials would automatically disappear, by self-pardon or dismissal.

Unless President Biden (whose current approval ratings in the polls are in the low 30s and is losing to Trump or any other Republican candidate by significant margins, if the presidential election were held today) and the Democratic Party make a startling comeback, King Donald I will be primed to destroy America’s Great Experiment of Democracy, come January 2025.

So I have a question for Republican Trumpers, which has baffled me over the years. Trump has always whined that every charge against him is a part of the greatest witch hunt in history, that he has committed no crime, and to use his own words, he is “the most innocent man in history”.

Seeing as he has been indicted and facing trial on several counts of sedition, obstruction of justice and espionage perhaps leading to treason, these protests come without a vestige of proof of his innocence.

Even Section 3, Amendment 14 of the Constitution specifies that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president for inciting, and providing aid and comfort, to insurrectionists, just as surely as he would be disqualified if he were 25 years old and born in Sri Lanka.

If he is so innocent, why does he keep on insulting and threatening the lives of those who criticize him, why does he vilify his judges and prosecutors as partisan fascists and leftists, out to imprison him on purely political grounds?

If he is so innocent, that the Constitution itself is unconstitutional and should be “terminated”, then why has his legal strategy over 40 years of criminal acts always been to deny, distract and delay, never to provide proof?

If his innocence was so self-evident, then wouldn’t he and his Republican supporters want this proven in a court of law as quickly as possible, so that he can face the electorate with an unblemished reputation? Obviously a rhetorical question.

However, I do agree with the 30% of Americans who believe that God sent Trump to America. However, white Americans may have miscalculated the real motive behind God’s decision, their belief is that Trump was sent to save white America.

My belief is that God’s real plan to send Trump to America was to punish Americans for all the carnage, genocide, slavery, racism and crimes they have committed in the past, often in His name. A divine motive far more in keeping with the final plan of an all-knowing, all-merciful God.

Trump is God’s retribution.