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Instead of Being Down About Trump, People Are Rising Up By Jim Hightower
If the barrage of MAGA nuttiness and raw meanness is getting you down, ponder this passage from the classic novel, "Don Quixote": "It is not possible for the bad or the good to last forever ... and since the bad has lasted so long, the good is close at hand."
Of course, the good only comes when fed-up people openly rebel against the bad. And, sure enough, President Donald Trump's awful tyranny is revving up a majority movement for the common good.
Soaking in self-delusion, tyrants start sipping their own bathwater, thinking it's champagne. So, today's Washington MAGA moguls, drunk on narcissism, are imperiously rigging the rules so their clique can grab more wealth and power from the rest of us. Maybe they thought we commoners wouldn't notice ... or care. But we did and do, so the rebellion is on and gaining steam with nationwide protests and a surge in grassroots populist defiance.
Predictably, Trump & Co. is now resorting to the same losing tactic that panicky despots always fall back on — deploying police and military to subjugate the people. He has commanded the Army and Marines to shut down public protests. Then, posturing as a "strongman," this 1960s draft dodger spent 45 million of our tax dollars to stage a made-for-TV, Stalin-style military parade on his birthday, letting him strut around as warrior-in-chief.
Of course, the good only comes when fed-up people openly rebel against the bad. And, sure enough, President Donald Trump's awful tyranny is revving up a majority movement for the common good.
Soaking in self-delusion, tyrants start sipping their own bathwater, thinking it's champagne. So, today's Washington MAGA moguls, drunk on narcissism, are imperiously rigging the rules so their clique can grab more wealth and power from the rest of us. Maybe they thought we commoners wouldn't notice ... or care. But we did and do, so the rebellion is on and gaining steam with nationwide protests and a surge in grassroots populist defiance.
Predictably, Trump & Co. is now resorting to the same losing tactic that panicky despots always fall back on — deploying police and military to subjugate the people. He has commanded the Army and Marines to shut down public protests. Then, posturing as a "strongman," this 1960s draft dodger spent 45 million of our tax dollars to stage a made-for-TV, Stalin-style military parade on his birthday, letting him strut around as warrior-in-chief.
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