While a good many MAGA are still stomping, clapping their hands and cheering themselves hoarse on this second day of Donald J. Trump’s second stint in the oval office, I’m sure at least a few are saying to themselves, “uh oh.”
Fortified by over $60-billion from the sale of an imaginary meme-coin in the days before his inauguration Monday, his legal woes ended, being president has been exceptionally good for Mr. Trump, his first term sparing him from yet another bankruptcy, his second sparing him from prison, our felonious president is acting right to script at his attempt to set himself up as dictator of what was, just last Sunday, the world’s greatest nation.
As with all the world’s great dictators, he now has the cadre of his own private army in the 1,200 or so January 6 insurrectionists he pardoned yesterday, each of proven loyalty and now fiercely beholden to him. He’s putting our system of jurisprudence to the torch, beginning his purge of non-partisan civil servants with those employed to serve the American people at the Department of Justice in preparation for filling those slots with servants to him.
And while he himself is above the law now that he’s been sworn in by a Supreme Court he all but owns, having at least the appearance of legality will will give his agenda of “retribution” (pronounced “revenge”) that started shortly after swearing on but not touching a stack of Bibles. But perhaps he is above needing the blessings of the divine.
Bringing up the alleged Pennsylvania assassination attempt that scratched his ear, he declared, “I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.”
I remain skeptical.