Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson unleashed a scathing attack Monday on Donald Trump, calling the former president a threat to American democracy itself, and making the case for forcible removal if Trump doesn’t willingly leave.In a fiery piece titled “Declaration of Independence From The Mad King,”…
What alarms me most is how none of the warnings are heeded or heard by lawmakers. Nobody can do anything about it.
Let’s say he doesn’t suspend elections in November. Let’s say we flip both the House and the Senate. Does anybody honestly believe they’ll enact restrictions, precautions, or any other measures to prevent something like this from happening again? Sure, there will be a couple of things passed… But nobody will go to jail, no enforcement will happen, nothing.
I suspect the population needs to see nothing happen if they vote in a blue wave, and I suspect it’s going to need to get worse… not that I don’t support voting, but right now there’s still too much faith that the system will correct itself. If you aren’t constantly consuming political news, you might think the lip service is actually doing something, and with the constant barrage of shit, people can honestly be forgiven too since extent for not knowing exactly how things are playing out with challenges and stuff.
It would be nice if it did correct course with voting, but I don’t think it will. At least not without a bigger shakeup (like actually progressives in place of dinos, flipping gerrymandered red districts, etc.) than 2026 midterms are likely to deliver…
Do you know why Republicans do exactly what the regime wants? It’s because Trump has a cult, that is exceedingly violent and unhinged. They threaten to murder their congresspeople, rape their wives, kill their children, burn their houses down. I’m not even kidding, look it up for yourself. Straight domestic terrorism stuff. Many Republicans are acting out of fear of their constituents, and it’s extremely effective. So…
What I’m hearing is that the politicians need to be made even more scared of the rest of us.
lol that’s one interpretation
The worst part is that they fucking knew this long before it was a problem you could actually point at.
They were warned, they just thought they wouldn’t be in front of the barrel and they thought they were sacrificing you and I instead of themselves, you, and I.
Fuck them, they deserve the fear.
Exactly both sides are equally complicit In this coup and need to be treated as such. They need to be walked to the trials all together
Trump is clearly fucking incapacitated. He needs to be removed under the 25th amendment. But what I see is either an utter lack of strategy, or a strategy of letting the republicans hang themselves (and all U.S. legitimacy along with it) in favor of letting things get to point where a midterm sweep seems likely. Ineptitude or callous political math. Feels like a greasy handshake from someone you know just spent all day alone.
Like they are actively and maliciously forfeiting their oath to protect the constitution and should be tried for treason
In September 2016, Michael Anton wrote an essay for the right-wing Claremont Institute, “The Flight 93 Election,” making the case for Donald Trump’s election as a necessary gamble to stave off the destruction of conservatism. Anton then did a stint in Trump’s National Security Council, and last night was rewarded by the president with a posting to the National Board for Education Sciences. It was a fitting coda for Trump to single out the figure who most perfectly captured the spirit that right-wing intellectuals brought to the era.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/michael-antons-flight-93-election-trump-coup.html
Republicans said Trump was necessary to save the republic, this is funny
Hey guys? Um, remember the time when Trump was impeached twice? Yeah, I wonder who didn’t want him impeached.
YOU DIDN’T!!
Consider this scenario:
- In 2028, Trump gets the red states to back his place on the ballot, and he bullies enough swing states into recognizing him as eligible.
- Trump wins. Congress certifies. SCOTUS rules that Trump’s third term is valid.
- The blue states that didn’t put Trump on the ballot declare that the executive branch is considered vacant until a new election can be held. No new bill turned into law will be recognized (since they would have to pass Trump’s desk in the process), Trump isn’t allowed to federalize the National Guard since he isn’t the legitimate President, any new executive orders are null and void, etc.
- New Nullification Crisis begins, except bigger.
- SCOTUS attempts to use Cooper v Aaron to strike down Nullification. States argue that they’re nullifying laws that had no legal standing when they were passed anyway due to Trump’s involvement in the bill -> law process.
- Trump will no doubt try to activate the National Guard to arrest the Nullification advocates. Then things might get tricky.
Of course, this is all assuming that Dems don’t immediately cave, and stand by Amendment 22.
Honestly, I would expect a new Nullification Crisis much sooner than 2028, sooner even than midterms, inasmuch as the federal government, under this regime, is literally waging war – or trying very hard to start a real one – against the state of Minnesota, among others. A state could easily say, “Enough!” long before November rolls around.
I’m not saying Walz would do this, but hypothetically, a state that has enough of this federal incursion that finds no real respite in the courts, or finds itself being actively bankrupted or otherwise destroyed, could simply start nullifying the most onerous orders, or really, any federal orders, because at that point, restraint would make no real difference, as hypothetically every other imaginable remedy would already have been tried. Its exercise would hypothetically be the step immediately prior to secession, probably discussed directly as such, and like 1832 before it, the direct cause would likely be financial because unlike then, today the executive is already engaging in the use of force against a state.
The interesting thing, to me, is that the Nullification Crisis ended peacefully and fairly quickly in spite of the Force Bill because at the end of the day, both parties strove to find a solution that would preserve the union. Andrew Jackson being marginally less shitty and somewhat more sane than the current executive, they succeeded in that, so the Force Bill was never relied upon to use military might against a state’s nullification.
That is NOT the case here. In fact, we’re already past it. There have already been National Guard troops in the streets, on orders that were subsequently deemed unlawful by the courts, and we haven’t even really gotten near the federal defiance of Posse Comitatus and/or formally using the Insurrection Act yet, events that are almost certain to come as well. The fed does NOT want peace: if it can push a state to open fighting it will, and as far as I can see is already working strenuously to that end wherever it can. So from where I’m sitting, at that final point of provocation, whatever it ends up being, state nullification doesn’t look very much different from secession at all, either in execution or federal response to same.
Also, not really on topic but I’m just going to throw in a gentle reminder that it would take no more than a handful of Republicans in the House and Senate to put a stop to all this madness TODAY. That’s not an absolute majority, of course, but it is more than enough to rein in that tertiary syphilitic madness enough to make the threats to both domestic and international targets stop instantly.
this is all assuming that Dems don’t immediately cave
That bit sounds implausible.
True, but that wouldn’t be very interesting to think about. A couple states might try to nullify if they’re pissed off enough. And nullification depends on the state government rather than the federal government, so the likes of Jeffries and Schumer wouldn’t be a concern.
It’s martial law in October 2026, he will have full control by the end of the year.
To be fair Rick mostly borrowed the language of the 1776 Declaration. I like it.
Remove Trump, lose parliament. Wonderful strategy, Mr strategist
