“Cry ‘God for Donald, MAGA, and Mar-a-Lago!’”

Created
Sun, 11/06/2023 - 23:00
Updated
Sun, 11/06/2023 - 23:00
Remember January 6th! True to form, the former president set out to rally his foot soldiers by branding Thursday’s 37-count federal indictment against him, for his actions, as an attack on them. That is, to personalize it. “In the end, they’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you — and I’m just standing in their way,” Donald Trump told the convention of Georgia Republicans in Columbus, Ga. on Saturday. Right. And I’m still waiting for Barack Obama’s jack-booted thugs to kick in my door and confiscate my guns, as I was promised over a decade ago. The indictment is “ridiculous and baseless,” the most “horrific” abuse of power “in the history of our country,” so “many people have said,” Trump droned. “The Biden administration’s weaponized Department of Injustice” has engaged in “vicious persecution,” a “travesty of justice.” Blah, blah, blah. “I will prevent World War III. … Without me, it will happen,” Trump told them. The problem ahead is that Trump’s “fool me twice” Republican base is lining up once again to take seriously that only the man who stored nuclear secrets in a ballroom and a bathroom can save them. The subtext, of course, is Trump’s plea for them to save him. The New York Times reports that experts fret that the inhabitants of MAGAstan will once again take to the streets and commit violence in Trump’s name: Experts on political violence warn that attacks against people or institutions become more likely when elected officials or prominent media…