Donald Trump is back. Trump, of course, never left. From now on, let’s pay more attention to sociopathic pornography supported by 6 out of 10 Republican voters. State primary elections tested the former president’s power to anoint his sheep for the midterms, the midterm legislative elections.
Elon Musk, the richest man (and troll) in the world, has promised to bring @realDonaldTrump back if he succeeds in buying Twitter with $13 billion borrowed from billionaires. The explanation provoked widespread revelry. A scoundrel known for practices as a businessman that are the subject of two investigations by federal agencies, Musk said the decision to ban Trump from the platform for good in January 2021 was “morally wrong”.
Seeking moral compass in Elon Musk is like asking Flávio Bolsonaro for ethical guidance in public life, but I digress. The banishment of the orange ogre and leader of the rebellion in the capital was not anchored in piety. It was an executive decision by a private company that took into account legal and financial exposure because of the “risk of increased incitement to violence”.
The risk cited by Twitter only increases in the rearview mirror with the release of books about the final year of the Trump presidency. In “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for the Future of America” Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns reveal that the likely next House leader —if the Republicans regain a majority in November — he planned to force Trump to resign shortly after the attack on Capitol Hill.
Representative Kevin McCarthy, typical Trump licker, today denies what he said and that we clearly heard in audio obtained by the authors.
Former Defense Secretary Mike Esper is yet another one who waited to cash in on a bestseller telling the country what he knew. Among the details revealed in “A Sacred Oath” is that Trump planned to call in troops to quell protests over the murder of black man George Floyd by a white police officer.
According to the report, in June 2020 the then president asked if it would be possible to shoot protesters in Washington: “Can’t you shoot their legs or something?”.
In the same year, on two occasions, Trump asked Esper to launch missiles at drug trafficking laboratories in Mexico. When the secretary explained that it would be an act of war, the self-styled stable genius argued: “We bomb in the bush, no one will know it was us.”
It is this runaway train that advances to the presidential candidacy in 2024 with the support of the republican establishment that hates him behind his back.
So far, of 36 candidates backed by Trump in the ongoing primaries for the Senate, House and state governments, one has suffered a loss in the Nebraska primary — but the Trumpist in question, Charles Herbster, is accused of sexual harassment by eight women.
The former president’s support pushed best-selling memoir and hedge fund manager JD Vance out of the top 10 percent in polls to win the Ohio Senate primary.
Vance exemplifies the Faustian exchange of the nihilistic far-right. He despised the Republican in public. As an old acquaintance of his wrote, the question is not “what happened to people like him?” but “who will they become to reach the next stage of power?”
