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Trump is practicing what is called “Stochastic Terrorism"—a rhetorical device whereby he is inciting his followers to commit unspecified atrocities on his behalf. He gets out of being held accountable because he has an ‘out’ —he just said ‘bad things’ would happen, he didn’t tell them exactly what to do.
On January 6, He said “Mike Pence disappointed us, Mike Pence betrayed all true Americans,” and his followers interpreted that as “hang Mike Pence”….and since he didn’t specifically tell them to kill Mike Pence he can shrug and say he was just expressing his feelings, not telling anyone to do anything bad to good old Mikey.
For whatever reason, there is no law enforcement agency in this nation or in the world (NATO, the Hague) that is willing to call it what it is and take action.
I wonder if there were sane and decent people in Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, or present day Kim’s Korea, Putin’s Russia, or Xi’s China who, like me, saw what was happening in their nation and felt powerless to stop the rising tide of bloody authoritarianism.
There are some low level foot soldiers of the Jan 6 coup attempt who have seen consequences, but no one who was organizing, funding, or promulgating the insurrection has been touched by law enforcement. All they learned from that attempt was how to do it better next time.
The best hope we have is that people who followed and believed in Trump either died of Covid or are finally maybe seeing that there is no sane and decent future under the leadership of such a petty, stupid, morally and financially bankrupt person. Or perhaps the folks who got put in jail for Jan 6 and have received no help or pardon from Trump will decide to sit the next one out.
On the other hand, there are likely more fascists in law enforcement and the military than we care to recognize or admit. If Trump calls for violence again upon his arrest, if those people stay loyal we may be in for a second civil war. If people smarter than Trump manage to take the reins of the monstrous hateful beast Trump has created with the MAGAts and Q-nuts, we may be in for a bad time. The best most of us sane and decent folk can hope for is that they turn on each other and ruin the movement from within before they get their shit together enough to create a theocratic authoritarian regime on the ruins of what used to be the USA.
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