Almost there.

 

" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing". I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other interactions. Sorry, I am going to leave that one alone....Although let me just say this.  (I guess I couldn't leave it alone.) It's ironic that Mr. Kirk was killed by an alleged white guy in the very white state of Utah. Especially after he spent a large part of his career demonizing black criminals and gangs, and blaming them for all the crime in America. 

That's it for now. I have some other thoughts, but it might be too soon. 

Anyway, the killing of Mr. Kirk has only accelerated America's march towards becoming a Christofascist  state. Mr. Trump, of course, will do everything in his powers to make sure that this is the case, and that we get there sooner rather than later.  

But as David Frum writes in The Atlantic, he will have to hurry. (I can't believe I am lifting an article from David freaking Frum. The times they are a changing.) 

"President Donald Trump is worried that Attorney General Pam Bondi is moving too slowly to prosecute his political adversaries on fake charges. Trump has good reason to be concerned. He is carrying out his project to consolidate authoritarian power against the trend of declining public support for his administration and himself. He is like a man trying to race upward on a downward-moving escalator. If he loses the race, he will be pulled ever deeper below—and the escalator keeps moving faster against him.

Autocracies are headed by one man but require the cooperation of many others. Some collaborators may sincerely share the autocrat’s goals, but opportunists provide a crucial margin of support. In the United States, such people now have to make a difficult calculation: Do the present benefits of submitting to Trump’s will outweigh the future hazards?

As Bondi makes her daily decisions about whether to abuse her powers to please Trump, she has to begin with one big political assessment: Will Trump ultimately retain the power to reward and punish her? It’s not just about keeping her present job. On the one hand, people in Trump’s favor can make a lot of money from their proximity to power. On the other, Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, served 19 months in prison for his crimes during Watergate. If Trump’s hold on power loosens, Bondi could share Mitchell’s fate."

 Right on cue Mr. Trump is prosecuting his political enemies left and right, and Bondi is doing his bidding as ordered.  I'm not sure if he will run out of time. Yes, the country is souring on him, and the specter of Jeffrey Epstein looms over everything Trump does. But Americans don't seem to notice what is happening right under their eyes, and this is perfect for Mr. Trump. He will now be able to follow his Project 2025 blueprint and live out his authoritarian fantasies without fear of the consequence of his actions. 

American soldiers are patrolling the streets of American cities.  And, not unlike the Brownshirts or SAs who were instrumental in a certain dictator's rise to power when they intimidated his political opponents and vulnerable populations, ICE is terrorizing law abiding citizens, whose only crime happens to be their dark skin and accents.   

So Mr. Trump is on his way to getting the America that he wants. The question now is this: how many of us want the same thing?