America Is Ruled By a Vindictive Psychopath

     I still can't believe that we're in a position of having to win hearts and minds on this, that we have to scream at the tops of our lungs about how very, very wrong all this is.

     Just today, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that banned Trump's DHS from racially profiling people of color. It was a decision that was so scummy and obviously racist and partisan that the six right wingers on the court didn't even issue a majority opinion explaining how they thought targeting people just for speaking Spanish or with an accent was lawful and fair. Only Brett Kavanaugh put down his beer long enough to issue an opinion, stating that racially profiling brown people was a "commonsense" measure.

      Then, also today, Trump's fascist goons announced this. Per Jessica Corbett's lede in Common Dreams:

     "After several days of US President Donald Trump threatening a militarized invasion of Chicago, his administration on Monday announced 'Operation Midway Blitz,' claiming it is 'in honor of' a young woman allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant accused of drunk driving about 140 miles south of the Illinois city..."

     As usual, the Trump administration is seizing upon the death of a white woman in order to justify raiding and occupying an entire city. They know this is all they have. Long derided by Republicans of being a crime-infested ewer, Chicago's violent crime rate has actually gone down under Mayor Brandon Johnson.

     But facts mean nothing to Trump and his insane clown posse. And the very ridiculous name, Operation Midway Blitz, shows that Trump indeed intends on targeting Chicago even though the fatal car accident they're using as a pretext for taking over a major American city happened nearly 150 miles away in Urbana, IL.

     It's very reminiscent of Trump's equally ridiculous attempt to annex Canada in his homemade Anschluss. Or his invasions of Los Angeles and Washington, DC.

     It's impossible for a rational mind to comprehend how legally and morally wrong this is and why everyone doesn't feel this way. The idiot Trump cultists supporting these extralegal invasions, in violation of Posse Comitatus, honestly seem to think that when Trump's masked goons begin swarming our cities that they, too, won't be swept up in the government's indiscriminate net. This especially goes for Trump's Hispanic supporters, who maybe didn't get the memo that Trump's shock troops were just given permission from the Supreme Court today to round them up just for speaking English with a Latin American accent or working a landscaping job.

      Another thing that many of us have forgotten is that appeasement doesn't work with dictators. Neville Chamberlain found that out the hard way when he struck the "Peace for our Time" deal with Hitler that wasn't worth the paper it was written on. It was announced in London on September 30, 1938, about six months after Hitler had annexed Austria. 11 months later, he invaded Poland, touching off WWII. Months after that was the catastrophic failure at Dunkirk and the London Blitz.

     As we all know, or should, Hitler had sweeping ambitions to take over all of Europe and, eventually, the world. Trump's schemes aren't so epic. His goal is to Make America Aryan Again but there's a method to his madness.

     Trump is trying to get as many Hispanics out of the country as possible in order to throw the midterms in his favor. This is why he ordered Greg Abbott call a special legislative session to gerrymander their electoral map mid-decade to steal five seats from Democrats. He's trying to jerry-rig the Electoral College, that useless relic from the 18th century, in his favor so that when he illegally tries to run for a third term in 2028...

     Well, you can infer the rest. He gets to serve a third term, thereby staying out of prison for the rest of his life, or he may just decide to suspend the 2028 elections altogether. Remember, after 1933, Germany didn't have another free and fair election until 1946.

     And it's no coincidence that the places Trump is balefully eyeing are all Democrat-run cities in Democrat-run states. There are many red cities in red states with much higher crime rates than Chicago, DC and LA but, again, facts mean nothing to Trump.

     Just imagine if Joe Biden and Barack Obama tried doing this in red cities in red states.