The Clown Car, Chaos, Mental Instability and Führerprinzip

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The Clown Car, Chaos, Mental Instability and Führerprinzip

"The people in charge who are supposed to protect us — our fellow Americans who we elected, along with those who were appointed, and swore an oath to protect this nation and our Constitution — now use the Constitution as a weapon to suit their own ends. And the most terrifying fact is, their road map is very long." 

Patty Hartman, who worked in communications for the DOJ for 17 years before being fired, who says America is barreling toward a new reality where "the rules don't exist anymore,"

The Trump 2.0 administration is marked by the appointment of the least qualified cabinet in our history. As the whistleblower behind the nomination of former Trump lawyer, Emil Bove, to the Third Circuit (a lifetime appointment to the second highest federal appellate court) seems to have proved, unless courts accept Trump’s unequivocal mandate, Trumpers will twist and squirm to pretend they don’t understand the order… until they feel they have to reject to authority of the federal courts altogether. We have an AG who is incapable of protecting either the Constitution or the general public if Trump wants otherwise, and she is presently consumed in her inability to produce that which she had promised throughout her appointment: the Epstein client list.

Even our Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins, is completely unfamiliar with the multiple attempts in states where hand labor is required to harvest crops or do the dirty work in slaughterhouses. Regardless of the pay offered to US citizens to do that work, there has NEVER been a successful effort to recruit citizens to accept such jobs. The studies and surveys are substantial, but Rollins’ reading skills seem unable to grasp that reality as she suggests (incorrectly) that there are more than enough able-bodied unemployed and available Medicaid recipients to fill that void. Even Trump knows better.

As our unskilled “master of conspiracy theories in lieu of medical facts,” Robert Kennedy, Jr. (completely rejected by his own family) – known for such intelligent hobbies such as leaving a dead bear in Central Park – has assembled a mass of equally unskilled conspiracy theorists to manage the nation’s healthcare at every level. Deep antivaxx sentiments, making what used to be required vaccinations for any child entering elementary school for decades, have left containing childhood contagions to the whims of parents. The reality is that such parental resistance to required childhood vaccinations is nothing more than a right for their children to infect anyone they come in contact with, often in a classroom where contact is inevitable.

RFK, Jr’s replacing seasoned and experienced vaccine experts with conspiracy theorist amateurs has resulted in dramatic increases in diseases that we once had under control. With decades of experience, there is no doubt about safety and effectiveness of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which the CDC and HHS have been encouraging Americans to get vaccinated for over half a century. No longer. By making such vaccinations voluntary, there have been well over a thousand outbreaks (focused heavily in Texas) of measles. “Childhood vaccine coverage has been declining in the US, and the vast majority of measles cases this year – more than 90% – have been in people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown, according to the CDC.” CNN, July 10th. And given our recent experience with COVID, another such pandemic could kill millions of Americans without a professional and properly educated HHS staff.

DHS Secretary, Kristi “where is the camera” Noem, is addicted to heavy make-up… but has obviously no clue about the laws she is supposed to enforce. Her response before a Congressional committee – that “the right of habeas corpus” embodies the President’s unilateral right to instant deportation of undocumented aliens without due process – is clear evidence that she is ill-preprepared to lead Trump’s immigration efforts. Immigration Tsar, Tom Homan let it be known that detaining people on the basis of race or ethnicity was fully legal and justified (a federal district court has already ruled against that premise). Alligator Alcatraz has already proven to be a hellish, searingly hot mosquito haven, unnecessarily cruel. And Noem’s willingness to shoot a puppy suggests that cruelty is one of her fortes.

Noem’s insists on micromanaging emergency approvals; she failed to okay the launch of swift water rescue boats in time to be effective in the Texas floods. Her failure to approve vendors to service the emergency notification network left the bulk of the early flood-related telephone calls unanswered. For this, Trump gave her a “hell of a job” commendation. The very future of FEMA continues to hang in the balance, and even if funds are ultimately restored, they just might be reserved for red states.

Trump’s gone a little crazier with power than usual, threatening to revoke the citizenship even of normal US citizens because they disagree with him… like long-term critic Rosie O’Donnell. But understanding the root of Trump’s MAGA vectors, even as the missing Epstein client list still haunts him, is the fundamental premise of a single head of state, one who sets all the rules and is empowered to crush those who oppose him. It’s an old theme, and falls under that term, “Führerprinzip.”

“While he was writing Mein Kampf within the walls of Landsberg prison in 1924, Adolf Hitler argued that Germany’s salvation required a single, infallible leader — one whose will would override parliamentary squabbling, legal constraints and institutional checks. This governing idea, known as the Führerprinzip, became the spine of Nazi rule: first consolidating control over the party, then over the state.

“A century later, the Führerprinzip is no longer lurking in the shadows. In Donald Trump’s second term, echoes of the doctrine are surfacing in policy, purges and propaganda, transforming American governance from a constitutional system into a vehicle for personal power.

“Americans got an early glimpse of Trump’s authoritarian impulses in his hit reality TV show The Apprentice. His cosplay boardroom rulings were final, often abrupt and rarely questioned — mirroring a top-down leadership style that emphasized dominance over deliberation. At the time, Trump’s business empire was riddled with failures, yet his onscreen persona cast him as the ultimate arbiter of success and singular greatness. His trademark edict, ‘You’re fired,’ thrilled viewers but also showcased his comfort with public humiliation. Long before executive orders and loyalty purges, the Führerprinzip was playing out on prime-time television, with 24 million Americans watching.” Terrence Petty, writing for the July 12th The Foreward.

Trump’s made no secret of his admiration for his plainclothes personal police force, ICE, and their warrantless arrests of even the most ordinary undocumented workers. Trump has authorized them to go all out against protestors. To those far removed from businesses and farms that rely on undocumented labor, where there aren’t hordes of ID-less ICE cops busting darker-skinned people, the current bust-and-deport syndrome is just what the doctor ordered. But when it happens to their community, their neighbors, they just do not believe it is real. Well, folks, it is, and if you disagree with Trump, even if you are many generations deep in American citizenship, you just might be next.

I’m Peter Dekom, and I just do not believe the clown car with malice in their hearts and violence in their enforcers that consider the United States Constitution an inconvenience that is “dead, dead, dead,” a 2013 quote from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.