Trumpianism – In a World Where Accountability Fights Blame, Blame Always Wins

Trumpianism – In a World Where Accountability Fights Blame, Blame Always Wins

October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it." 

Sen. Roger Marshall (R/KS)

"The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals." 

 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on X, October 16th.

Sadly, in the make-believe world where we assume our elections are or should be fair, where we think individuals can achieve what their inherent skills and drive can produce and where no one is above the law, none of these assumptions is valid. In the real world where the US Constitution has become unamendable – more inflexible than any other such foundational governmental document in the developed world – all it takes to usurp our status as a nation of laws is for those governmental governing bodies, charged with establishing and maintaining the guardrails, to cede those powers into what is leaning severely into one party rule under the dictates on of a single autocrat.

Indeed, where we have a one party dominated Congress and that same single-vision Supreme Court, you only have to examine new, unrestrained patterns of governance, patterns which have never been embraced in such a manipulative, non-constitutional level, to see the problem. As the stalemate that keeps our nation paralyzed lingers, where the budget extension bill was created by one party with the expressed intention of ignoring the other party, blame rises hard. Healthcare is expendable… and a promise to consider extending ACA support someday is toothless

The Supreme Court has simply erased any evidence of judicial neutrality, finding that their decisions can effectively amend the Constitution by decisions “on the merits” (e.g., the presidential immunity decision which has no constitutional basis) or simply unsigned docket delays lacking any explanation, that postpone the merit decision to sometime in the future, while in the meantime issuing a “whatever Trump wants” holding. With triple the number of such shadow docket opinionless decisions of any other presidential administration, Trump’s position has failed only twice in his emergency application to the Court.

A growing number of federal judges are deeply disturbed by this trend. “Dozens of federal judges responding to a survey by the New York Times are expressing concern about the U.S. Supreme Court’s emergency docket decisions in cases related to President Donald Trump since his second term in office… Only 12 out of 65 judges responding to the newspaper’s survey said the U.S. Supreme Court has made appropriate use of its emergency docket, and only 12 said lower-court judges are getting sufficient guidance on how to apply emergency docket orders… And only two of 54 judges who answered the question said the emergency docket had improved the public’s perception of the judiciary.

“Some judges were critical in interviews with the New York Times, calling the emergency docket orders ‘mystical,’ ‘overly blunt,’ ‘incredibly demoralizing’ and ‘a slap in the face to the district courts.’ One viewed their district’s relationship with the Supreme Court as a ‘war zone,’ and another thought that courts were in a ‘judicial crisis.’ The judges spoke on the condition of anonymity.” Debra Cassens Weiss, writing for the October 14th Journal of the American Bar Assn.

This pervasive effort at instilling one-party rule echoes across every level of the Trump administration. Constitutional provisions are ignored, statues violated, and Trump’s appointees make decisions solely looking to “whatever Trump wants” as their governing lodestone. For example, in blatant violation of the Hatch Act – which forbids using government to foster a singular partisan perspective – the same Kristi “puppy killer” Noem – posted a video in the TSA lines at airports blaming the Democratic Party for the shutdown. See above. Yes, that same Kristi Noem who testified before Congress that the writ of habeas corpus, a statutory procedure to challenge the bona fides of incarceration, was a law that literally gave the President the power to arrest people, without a constitutionally mandated warrant, if he believes them to be an unacceptable threat to his perception of the law.

The No Kings protests in June and October represent the greatest protest rallies in American history. Yet the uniform voice of top GOP officials, from Senator Marshall above to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Speaker Mike Johnson and the President continue to repeat that the protestors are paid professional “agitators” who hate America and do not represent the real Americans who support Donald Trump. You can see how when Trump openly demonizes a political foe and signals to the DOJ that they should be prosecuted… that is exactly what happens. See above White House quote. It’s no secret that Senior Presidential Advisor, Stephen Miller, and Trump himself intend to shift the nation to one party rule, as Trump is demanding that GOP legislators, gerrymander the Democratic Party out of existence. It appears as if they have the wholehearted support of the supermajority in the Supreme Court.

Trump and his minions have gone out of their way to create a pretend group of American terrorists, well-funded and well-organized, as a rising all-powerful internal enemy that justifies the invocation of the Insurrection Act to root out and be destroyed. There’s just one problem: the named group is an ideology that does not exist as a tangible embodied form. Sorry, Donnie. There is no building, no funding, no formal membership, no Antifa. But your followers paste that label on anyone who does not agree with you, demanding that they be rooted out, arrested or just shot on site.

I’m Peter Dekom, and I find it difficult to hold those who despise and disrespect the Constitution are “lovers of America,” and those who do support that founding document are the “haters.”