When the
indictments came through against Trump with 37 counts levied against
him, when I read 3/4 of the indictment with some pages to go, when I saw
the scrupulously ironclad case Jack Smith has woven and the
incontrovertible evidence against Trump's handling of the most sensitive
top secret classified documents that were not his to take and held
helter skelter at Trump's summer place Mar a Lago, I still managed to
smile. Finally, I plaintively asked, would Teflon Don be made to answer
for his lifetime of many unethical, unconscionable grifts and acts?
There
are no words to accurately describe my incredulity at his cavalier
treatment of cartons of documents that would have had the worst life
consequences if they fell into the hands of adversaries. There are no
words to describe the fear I felt when I realized how many human beings
could have been killed because of the actions of Trump, a former
president. We have no idea how many people could have been hurt because
of Trump's actions. How many of this nation's longtime allies could
have been horribly affected by the frivolity with which Trump treated
these secret and sometimes top secret documents with revelations of
military battle plans, maps and the most secret nuclear plans.
My
smile turns to worry. I worry about the violence that is attached to
right wing fascist authoritarian politics, I worry about the Judge
Aileen Cannon appointed by Trump, whose ruling for Trump was rejected by
an Appeals Court panel, most of all I worry about the millions who put
him in office and worry about the millions who steadfastly cling to him
despite the solid Special Counsel evidence against Trump. The worse it
gets for Trump the more money he makes. He gains support each time he
is indicted or has bad news levied against him. I worry, too, that
despite the many millions spent in carefully arguing the case for
conviction, this poisonous Teflon snake named Trump might never be
stopped. My worry will not subside, I fear, unless and until he is
fairly convicted by the very system which he so rudely attacks. I hope
fervently that he loses every appeal his hapless attorneys mount.
What is left for we the people to do in the interim whether he is acquitted or hopefully ultimately jailed? We must ensure after the hopeful conviction of this dangerous man that we never retreat from pursuing true authoritarian fascists in our country and in other nations so that they do not live again in other forms. When this malignant era of Trumpian politics is over we must ensure it never again envelops the world as new fascists are born in Trump's image. Moral and ethical people of all races and colors must make sure Adolph Hitler's ghost does not rise again in other forms and we must ensure other concentration camps are not created yet again.
