{"id":23055,"date":"2024-11-01T16:28:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T23:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=23055"},"modified":"2024-11-02T16:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T23:42:06","slug":"another-trumpy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2024\/11\/01\/another-trumpy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Trumpy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Trump imagines Liz Cheney before a firing squad;<\/li>\n<li>A history of Trump&#8217;s violent remarks;<\/li>\n<li>And his &#8220;enemies list&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Trumpists&#8217; playbook for trying to overturn the election &#8212; check back next week;<\/li>\n<li>How Trump appeals to America&#8217;s xenophobic history;<\/li>\n<li>When leopards tell you they will eat your face, believe them;<\/li>\n<li>Another asking of the question, Who are we, America?;<\/li>\n<li>Trump doesn&#8217;t have the attention span for a coup;<\/li>\n<li>And consideration of what will actually happen if Trump wins, with my own predictions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/Osmg6dyzdqED9PyzEevtrjEjRqM=\/0x0:2700x1519\/976x549\/media\/img\/mt\/2024\/11\/2024_11_01_trump_cheney_2182210453\/original.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Atlantic, David A. Graham, 1 Nov 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2024\/11\/trump-liz-cheney-war\/680485\/\">Trump Suggests Training Guns on Liz Cheney\u2019s Face<\/a>, subtitled \u201cLet\u2019s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nothing really new.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>The Atlantic, 31 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2024\/10\/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline\/680403\/\">A Brief History of Trump\u2019s Violent Remarks<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because that&#8217;s what the leader of the most powerful, enlightened nation on Earth does, right MAGAites?<\/p>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n<p>Long, handy list.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/vUNIPqfgIoquBv1-7NWYz5AN9Nc=\/0x0:1920x1080\/1600x900\/2024\/10\/31\/1730413340708.jpg?w=1600\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Axios, Zachary Basu, 1 Nov 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/01\/trumps-enemies-within-list\">Trump&#8217;s &#8220;enemies within&#8221; list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Biden, Harris, and Obama to basically everyone in the current government, who according to Vance would be replaced by &#8220;our people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Check back next week!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/styles\/crop_900x480\/s3\/static\/D8Image\/2024\/10\/31\/trump_election_playbook.png?itok=HKdGwgmq\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Matters, Matt Gertz, 1 Nov 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/voter-fraud-and-suppression\/heres-familiar-playbook-trumpists-will-use-try-and-overturn-election-if\">Here\u2019s the familiar playbook Trumpists will use to try and overturn the election if he loses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conspiracy theories about who votes; conspiracy theories about how people vote; conspiracy theories about when votes are counted; conspiracy theories about who counts the votes.<\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s been noted that talk of &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; in popular culture and politics should more properly be called &#8220;conspiracy stories&#8221; or &#8220;conspiracy fantasies,&#8221; since generally they&#8217;re floated without a particular of evidence. In science, a &#8220;theory&#8221; is a deep explanation of a variety of actual evidence.)<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>As I said yesterday, America has always been like this.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/11\/01\/multimedia\/01pol-border-rhetoric-topart-mjtp\/01pol-border-rhetoric-topart-mjtp-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NY Times, Jazmine Ulloa, 1 Nov 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-immigration-rhetoric-history.html\">The Deep Roots of 4 of Donald Trump\u2019s Nativist Remarks<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;In the former president\u2019s pitch to voters, historians hear echoes of the nation\u2019s inescapable xenophobic history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The four remarks, all from the past month or so, concern how illegal aliens must be criminals or insane; how they&#8217;re sick and spread diseases; how so many of them are murderers; and how they eat people&#8217;s dogs and cats.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>When they tell you what they will do, believe them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/11\/01\/multimedia\/31krugman1-hzck\/31krugman1-hzck-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NY Times, Opinion, Paul Krugman, 31 Oct 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/31\/opinion\/trump-musk-mike-johnson.html\">Leopards Are Telling You That They Will Eat YOUR Face<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you know this widely cited meme, introduced in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/leopards-eating-peoples-faces-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 tweet<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"css-1ggt3fz etf134l0\">\n<p class=\"css-12wzsk6 evys1bk0\">\u201cI never thought leopards would eat MY face,\u201d sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People\u2019s Faces Party.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s hard to explain why this is perfect, but it is. If Donald Trump wins, there will eventually be a lot of sobbing among people who voted for him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Another asking of this question.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/MB3UEZAAAZ4BQYOMSZS4N3FI4A.jpg&amp;w=916\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington Post, Dana Milbank, 1 Nov 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2024\/11\/01\/harris-ellipse-trump-msg-election-vote\/\">Opinion | Who are we, America?<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;If we choose Trump this time, no one can claim to have been fooled or unaware.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My issue with formulations like this is that the outcome of an election that is very close does not implicate all those who voted on the losing side. Similarly, even if Trump loses soundly, there will still be a lot of people who were fooled, or unaware (or selfish).<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>This is probably true. Just as the accusation of Trump&#8217;s collusion with Russia were implausible simply because Trump and his team weren&#8217;t smart enough to manage such collusion. (That doesn&#8217;t mean Russia didn&#8217;t try.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/riot12-660x330.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>JMG<\/strong> via <strong>Wall Street Journal, 1 Nov 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2024\/11\/wsj-trump-doesnt-have-attention-span-for-a-coup\/\">WSJ: Trump Doesn\u2019t Have \u201cAttention Span\u201d For A Coup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Finally, some consideration of what will actually happen if Trump wins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/11\/01\/multimedia\/01goldberg1-qfgp\/01goldberg1-qfgp-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NY Times, Michelle Goldberg, 1 Nov 2024<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/01\/opinion\/donald-trump-dictator-fascism.html\">What I Truly Expect if an Unconstrained Trump Retakes Power<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lately, I\u2019ve seen conservatives taunting liberals online by asking why, if we really think America could be on the verge of fascism, our bags aren\u2019t packed. \u201cIt\u2019s tempting to begin trolling my anti-Trump friends by asking if they are liquefying assets, getting passports in order, etc.?\u201d Scott McConnell, a founding editor of The American Conservative, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ScottMcConnell9\/status\/1849844205843251712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> on X. National Review\u2019s Michael Brendan Dougherty said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/michaelbd\/status\/1851314115207119036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">something similarly snarky<\/a>: \u201cSo fascism is here and you\u2019re not doing what people did when fascism showed up, which is contemplating emigration in terror or joining armed resistance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I would say, that would mean surrendering.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My single biggest fear about a Trump restoration is that he keeps his promise to carry out \u201cthe largest domestic deportation operation in American history.\u201d As The New York Times has reported, that would mean sending ICE to carry out \u201cworkplace raids and other sweeps in public places aimed at arresting scores of unauthorized immigrants at once,\u201d and warehousing them in a network of newly built prison camps.<\/p>\n<p>If this happens, there will almost certainly be large protests. And when they break out, it is not far-fetched to think Trump would order the military to violently suppress them; the generals now warning about a second Trump term say he wanted to do just that in the past. This is what I envision when I think of MAGA fascism: people demonized as \u201cvermin\u201d being dragged off to camps, while dissent is violently crushed by the armed forces. I don\u2019t know how anyone who has listened to Trump and those around him can dismiss this scenario as hysterical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so on, with political prosecutions and threats to the Constitution, such as the repeal of the 19th Amendment, &#8220;the one giving women the right to vote.&#8221; And she ends:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But even if the unthinkable happens, it won\u2019t happen all at once. Hannah Arendt wrote, in \u201cThe Origins of Totalitarianism,\u201d about how the dislocations of World War I created a mass of stateless people who lived \u201coutside the pale of the law.\u201d Seeing these people deprived of human rights, those secure in their citizenship did not generally worry about their own. \u201cIt was precisely the seeming stability of the surrounding world that made each group forced out of its protective boundaries look like an unfortunate exception to an otherwise sane and normal rule,\u201d wrote Arendt.<\/p>\n<p>My kids keep asking anxiously what will happen if Trump wins. I tell them that their lives won\u2019t change, that we\u2019ll have to try to stand up for others who are more vulnerable, but that we ourselves will be fine. The last two words I only say in my head: \u201cFor now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My own prediction: the more extreme Trump becomes or tries to be, there will be push-back, there will be condemnation from all quarters, including from the rest of the world. He will not succeed in implementing his Project 2025 or any similar plan. He will not successfully conclude his term. It will be a horror show. America will be embarrassed before the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump imagines Liz Cheney before a firing squad; A history of Trump&#8217;s violent remarks; And his &#8220;enemies list&#8221;; Trumpists&#8217; playbook for trying to overturn the election &#8212; check back next week; How Trump appeals to America&#8217;s xenophobic history; When leopards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2024\/11\/01\/another-trumpy-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-resistance","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23064,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions\/23064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}