Now Pipe Bombs Sent to Those Who Dare to Oppose Trump

It only took seven years and seven months for Trump’s demagoguery: (1) starting with championing the Birther Movement in March 2011; (2) continuing during his campaign for President announced in June 2015—demonizing Mexican immigrants and later every conceivable target, from ‘elites’, ‘bureaucrats’, Democrats, the Fourth Estate (‘Fake News’, ‘Enemy of the People’), people of color, and ‘the Other’, and (3) since taking office in January 2017 and especially now as the 2018 midterms are upon us, for Trump’s escalating hate speech to bear fruit. The list now includes anyone or institution that poses a threat to his illegitimate authoritarian rule: including the majority Trump Resistance; members of his own administration, the Justice Department, FBI, and Mueller investigation; the Intelligence Community; Democrats in Congress; and peaceful mass protests against his administration—a ‘violent hateful mob’ in his delusional mind. Not to mention the fictitious 'massive voter fraud' that denied him a plurality of the popular vote in 2016 and will surely be blamed if Republicans lose the House in the midterm elections.

Thankfully, the lunatic Trump supporter Right-Wing terrorist bomber has been caught. Who is Cesar Sayoc? What we know about the suspected mail bomber arrested in Florida.

As I and many others, including hundreds of mental health professionals and prominent Republicans not enthralled with this mental and emotional cripple continue to point out, Trump is a corrupt malignant narcissist demagogue, emboldened by an irreconcilable lunatic Trump Cult minority core base of perhaps 10 to 15% of Americans. Trump, his administration, and the morally bankrupt Republican Party in Congress that enables him are a clear and present danger to our Republic, our American values and norms of decency, and the people of the World.

Like Hitler, who could have been stopped by the people of Germany before he consolidated this power and eliminated all opposition, We the People have one chance, in the midterm election on November 6, to stop this demagogue and end this madness. If we don’t, God help us all. Unfortunately, as his White Evangelical ‘Christian’ supporters clearly demonstrate, there is no God, except maybe the fictions ‘White Jesus’ they worship.

This reactionary digression in our march toward a diverse, inclusive, more just and equitable Nation, no longer dominated by Filthy Rich White Men and steeped in racism and Patriarchal sexism—led by a corrupt malignant narcissist demagogue—is a matter of public record. Now this delusional mental and emotional cripple even has the audacity to publicly denounce the very violence he has precipitated.  

Now Pipe Bombs, by me – https://youtu.be/r2Xk4kO-quM

Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories

“During Barack Obama's campaign for president in 2008, throughout his presidency, and afterwards, a number of conspiracy theories falsely asserted Obama was ineligible to be President of the United States because he was not a natural-born citizen of the United States as required by Article Two of the U.S. Constitution…

In March 2011, during an interview on Good Morning America, Donald Trump said he was seriously considering running for president, that he was a ‘little’ skeptical of Obama's citizenship, and that someone who shares this view should not be so quickly dismissed as an ‘idiot’ (as Trump considers the term ‘birther’ to be ‘derogatory’). Trump added, ‘Growing up no one knew him’, a claim ranked Pants-on-Fire by Politifact. Later, Trump appeared on The View repeating several times that ‘I want him [Obama] to show his birth certificate.’ He speculated that ‘there [was] something on that birth certificate that [Obama] doesn't like’, a comment which host Whoopi Goldberg described as ‘the biggest pile of dog mess I've heard in ages.’ On the March 30, 2011, edition of CNN Newsroom, anchor Suzanne Malveaux commented on Trump's statements, pointing out that she had made a documentary for which she had gone to Hawaii and spoken with people who knew Obama as a child. In an NBC TV interview broadcast on April 7, 2011, Trump said he would not let go of the issue, because he was not satisfied that Obama had proved his citizenship. After Trump began making his views public, he was contacted by Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily, who was reportedly on the phone with Trump every day for a week, providing Trump with a ‘birther primer’, answers to questions, and advice. After Obama released his long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011, Trump said ‘I am really honored and I am really proud, that I was able to do something that nobody else could do.’ …” [Numerous reference footnotes in the original removed for clarity.]

NAACP SEES CONTINUED RISE IN HATE CRIMES, LEGACY OF TRUMP’S RACISM – https://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-sees-continued-rise-hate-crimes-legacy-trumps-racism/

Do Trump Tweets Spur Hate Crimes? Study makes strong case that president’s Twitter activity encourages anti-Muslim crimes – https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-trump-tweets-spur-hate-crimes1/  

‘Making America Hate Again’ – The Correlation Between Trump’s Anti-Muslim Tweets And Hate Crimes – https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/making-america-hate-again-the-correlation-between-trumps-anti-muslim  

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and CNN Offices Are Sent Pipe Bombs – https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/nyregion/clinton-obama-explosive-device.html  

Donald Trump condemns pipe bombs as 'abhorrent, despicable' – live – https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/oct/24/bombs-clintons-obamas-latest-live-news-updates-cnn-time-warner-evacuations-explosive-devices

'Act of terror': Bombs sent to CNN, Clintons, Obamas, Holder – https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/24/politics/bill-clinton-hillary-clinton-chappaqua/index.html

Time to 'Man Up' or Fold

How We Got Here

Liberals like me—a trained Social Psychologist,  President Obama—the whitest and safest black man in America and a very smart and accomplished guy, and Hillary Clinton—a woman too smart and arrogant for her own good, have repeatedly underestimated the power of hate, fear, and willful ignorance for a significant minority of the electorate. A fat, lazy, ignorant, angry disaffected and racist minority made Trump’s electoral college ‘win’ possible. Donald Trump defeated a flawed, arrogant, out of touch Democrat who, like Michael Dukakis versus George H. Bush (1988), and John Kerry and Al Gore versus George “W” Bush (2000 and 2004) before her, assumed the American people would make a rational, informed choice for President in 2016.

We can still stop this madness, but not with intellectual or moral arguments, 21-point platforms, reaching out to idiots, moving to ‘the Center’, playing it safe or being civil. This is a War Republicans have been fighting and winning for decades. We have been bringing intellect, knowledge, and moral appeals to a knife fight with evil, well-funded, morally bankrupt monsters who see power and winning as the only thing that matters, effectively appealing to the basest aspects of human nature.

Trump is a corrupt malignant narcissist and demagogue. His presidency is unprecedented. He represents a threat to our Nation that cannot be overestimated. He is not a stable genius. He is not a populist. He is not a White Savior who can Make America White Again. He is not a successful businessman or self-made man. Trump is a fraud, a con artist, a mental and emotional cripple.

Trump has unmasked the face of the Filthy Rich and Corporate America—concerned only with satisfying their rapacious greed and gaining and keeping political power at any and all costs. They have: (1) created a fake Culture War with values they personally mock, to appeal to White Evangelical ‘Christians’; (2) used hate and fear to demonize “the other” to appeal to bigots; (3) destroyed labor unions that defend workers; and (4) deliberately created a ‘winner take all’ economy to increase the insecurity of low-education working people—the very people they have exploited for profits and their gain. They have demonized programs for the common good like the Affordable Care Act, Social Security and Medicare as socialism, and demonized out groups, faceless ‘elites’ and bureaucrats to focus appropriate rage away from themselves. Trump has revealed the moral bankruptcy of the Filthy Rich and Corporate America. As a demagogue, he has effectively exploited and continues to exploit his hateful, fearful, and willfully ignorant authoritarian core minority base.

While the Democratic National Committee and Democratic operatives were obsessed with winning presidential elections and keeping abortion legal, for decades, the Republicans have been executing a deliberate plan: systematically buying Governor seats and State Houses on the cheap, creating gerrymandered districts so even as they lose the popular vote in a State, they win most of the seats in the House of Representatives and State House majorities.

The culmination of all of this is Donald Trump, a dangerous mental and emotional cripple, in the White House, and a majority in Congress to enact a Republican Tax Reform fraud in 2017, passed with no Democratic support, and the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, with just one Democratic vote.

How Do We Fix This?

I used the term man up deliberately in the title for the benefit of women. We are way past political correctness or doctrinaire feminism. We are in a war for the very survival of an America that was, until the ‘election’ of this reactionary demagogue, well on its way to an inclusive, diverse, more just and equitable America, no longer dominated by the Filthy Rich, Corporations and White Men. To deal with this clear and present danger, we will have to abandon the luxury of dissension and infighting. We are no longer men or women, White or People of Color, White Collar professional or Blue-Collar worker, Hillary or Bernie supporter, or political socialists, liberals, progressives, moderates, or centrists. We are Democrats. Not the weak, fragmented, easily distracted, quarrelsome  Present-Day Democrats. We must become New Warrior Democrats; unified freedom fighters in The Resistance to defeat the darkness, madness, and evil that has arisen.

So, what do we do? We need to convince Democrats and Independents who occasionally vote—when it’s a Presidential election and they “like” and/or have an ethnic affinity for the Democrat, or to support some specific issue, or if it is convenient or they don’t forget—that their lives and the future of the Republic depends on them registering and voting. In every election, at every level of government—Federal, State, and Local—starting with the midterms. We need to convince so-called Independent and Disaffected Voters that the popular sentiment that both parties are the same is wrong. There are profound differences between the Democratic and Republican Parties. Republicans are the lackeys of the Filthy Rich and Corporations. They are the Party of: exploiting hate, fear, and willful ignorance; wealth and income inequity; Drill Baby Drill; Climate Change and other Science denial; angry White Men; racism, xenophobia and homophobia; selective ‘Christianity’ and religious intolerance; Country Clubs, gated communities, private schools, White Male Privilege and exclusion; and government for the privileged few. Only the Democratic Party supports diversity, inclusion, progressive taxation, secular humanism and religious tolerance, science, reason, public education, and government for the many and the common good.

If we cannot convince poor people, working people, people of color, women, LGBTQ people, Hispanics, Students, immigrant citizens and second and third generation hyphenated Americans, Independents and Disaffected Voters to register and vote for Democrats like, forgive the expression, Republicans do for their Party, we deserve to fail to regain power, and the America we cherish deserves to die.

I believe the stakes are this high. Hitler could have been stopped if the German people had woken up and realized the threat he posed, instead of dismissing him and his Brown Shirts minority. The breach Trump has exploited and inflamed may already be so great that only a second Civil War or the voluntary secession of the reddest States can close it. But Trump and his Republican enablers must be stopped now. How and when we deal with his irreconcilable Trump Cult lunatic minority core base—the malignant cancer on the body politic he has brought into the light—can be addressed after Trump is dealt with. A Democratic majority in the Congress should act to reestablish the Rule of Law and remove Trump from office in disgrace for his many high crimes and misdemeanors in 2019. Failing that, we must neutralize him and his administration until the 2020 presidential election when We the People can reject and defeat him through the ballot box.