If the years following the 2020 election have been turbulent, the days to come after 2024 may prove to be the most tumultuous and dangerous in America’s history.
The danger stems from the Left’s dedicated efforts laying the groundwork to depict Donald Trump and his supporters as would-be founders of a dictatorship.
While this narrative has been an ongoing spin for years now, the threat it poses has grown greater as the Establishment — including its mouthpieces in the mainstream media — is now becoming more detailed in its fearmongering, painting an elaborate portrait of the alleged master plan the MAGA movement has to end “democracy” in America and replace it with a dictatorship led by The Donald.
This allegedly sinister plot is spelled out in a recent Politico piece titled “Trump’s Recipe for a Shockingly Raw Power Grab: The former president and his allies are reportedly planning to lay siege to the rule of law,” which expands on reporting by The Washington Post.
According to both outlets, Trump intends, on his first day in office should he be reelected, to use the Insurrection Act in order to quell opposition by military might.
The Politico piece speculates:
Why might he need the Insurrection Act? Well, the piece also notes Trump intends to turbo-politicize the Department of Justice and order prosecutions of his former aides and officials who have criticized him. Perhaps he thinks the country won’t let him go buck wild on the rule of law without a stink, so he wants to be ready to sic troops on the inevitable protestors. Fingered by Trump for legal beat-downs, the Post reports, are one-time Trump stalwarts and staffers like former chief of staff John F. Kelly, former attorney general William Barr, his ex-attorney Ty Cobb, and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mark A. Milley. Trump has singled out other officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice for prosecution, the piece adds, as well as President Joe Biden and his family.
The outlet further claims that Jeffrey Clark, an official in Trump’s Department of Justice who is himself being prosecuted due to his role in trying to expose and reverse election fraud in Georgia after the 2020 election, is in charge of Trump’s Insurrection Act initiative. Clark allegedly made the statement that “That’s why there’s an Insurrection Act” when a colleague told him there would be riots if Trump attempted to stay in office following his supposed electoral “loss” in 2020.
According to the Post and Politico, Trump wants to stack his new administration with faithful supporters such as Clark who would be willing to use the levers of government to investigate and prosecute individuals such as those named above.
In the Politico piece, author Jack Shafer closes with the following diatribe:
Trump claims that his current promises of prosecution are a matter of payback. Prosecutors in Georgia and New York and in the federal government prosecuted him for what he considers political reasons, so he thinks that frees him to return the favor to his foes. But the Trump equation doesn’t balance. Remember, it was his style to call for the jailing of his foes long before any indictment landed on his doorstep. Also, Trump’s alleged crimes have been named, delineated with supporting evidence, accepted for trial by an independent judiciary. Any counter-claim by Trump, such as the recent one where he insisted he’s an American Nelson Mandela is complete fantasy.
Again, we’ve been warned. Trump doesn’t just want to be president. He wants to be prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer, too. Why doesn’t he just come clean and announce his campaign for dictator?
Shafer’s defense of the ongoing persecution of Trump rings hollow in light of the shoddy cases brought against the 45th president. For example, the New York fraud trial is simply preposterous; the notion that Trump committed fraud by appraising his own property too high and that no other institution involved performed their own estimate is laughable. Any objective observer can see the case is nothing more than a matter of thinly veiled political persecution.
The rhetoric being peddled by the mainstream media is highly dangerous. Previous narratives, such as the “insurrection” language surrounding January 6, have been successfully used to persecute and imprison Trump supporters and are being employed in the attempt to bar Trump from returning to the presidency.
But the “dictator” spin takes things to another level entirely. They want to tie Trump’s hands by making it seem as if any attempt on his part to prosecute corruption will be nothing more than a bid to make himself a dictator.
If they can persuade enough people of that, then they will justify — in the minds of those they convince — violent action against the federal government in the name of removing Trump from power. After all, it stands to reason that if Trump truly is a dictator, he deserves to be overthrown.
The media, of course, are more than aware of the violent implications of their dangerous rhetoric, and are accordingly dialing the heat up to 100 to get their desired result.
