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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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The entire Republican Party knows that the GOP is in for a shellacking in the mid-term elections this November. One must go back to the presidency of Herbert Hoover (and that was during the Depression years) to find a president who had a worse approval rating than Trump does today.
Trump has alienated almost everybody. MAGA is only a shell of what it was, as Trump broke promise after promise after promise since being elected in 2024. Trump has taken the world—including the United States—to the precipice of economic collapse, not to mention the verge of nuclear war.
His war of choice on Iran was the worst strategic defeat for the United States in our nation’s history—and that is not hyperbole. Trump has taken both our strategic oil reserves, our strategic missile reserves and missile interceptors to critically low levels—even to the point that military commanders are complaining that, should another war break out with a potent enemy, they do not have the munitions they need to meet the challenge. This includes the theaters in the Pacific and in Europe. Inflation is growing at a pace that is destroying many Americans’ ability to buy food or put gasoline in the car. Trump has created a global shortage of both diesel and aviation fuel. We have only begun to see what the prices of these fuels will rise to.
Beyond that, Trump’s stupid punitive tariffs and embargoes all over the world—including against China—have resulted in China’s refusal to sell the U.S. the rare earth minerals that are needed for a variety of hi-tech devices, including parts for computers, automobiles and U.S. military equipment such as jets, missiles, ships, etc. As a result, we are unable to even begin rebuilding the military hardware which is now in desperately short supply.
Plus, with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, it is a lot more than crude oil that is not being pumped into the world economy—including the U.S. economy. Here is a short list of critical goods stifled by the closure of the Strait: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), ammonia, helium, aluminum, sulfur (meaning most notably fertilizer) and other industrial chemicals. Mind you, this is but a very short list.
The bottom line is: Even if the conflict in Iran ended tomorrow (which it won’t) and the Strait of Hormuz was freely open (which it was before Trump joined Israel in launching an illegal, unjust, unconstitutional war of aggression against Iran in June of last year), it will take years—not months—to restock global supplies to the point that the flow of critical resources returns to even a smidgeon of normalcy.
But it’s not just people in the United States who have had it up the ying-yang with Trump. Trump has turned America into the laughingstock of the world. The entire world holds America in derision. Nobody trusts America. Nobody respects America. Nobody believes a word coming out of Washington, D.C. Even America’s “partner” states are fed up with Washington.
Presidents G.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have allowed Israel to lead us around like a little puppy dog. Israel has been a parasite inside the body of the United States since 1948, and during the first quarter of this century, the parasite has taken over the host. If left intact, that’s what parasites do. And by “taking over” the host, the parasite kills the host. And that’s what these presidents and U.S. Congresses—especially Donald Trump and the current U.S. Congress—have done: They have allowed the parasite of Israel to eat away the very life and soul of our country
The Israel lobby has been buying congressmen and senators (and presidents) for decades.
People have had enough! In both parties, a giant sea change is taking place.
In several primaries this year, AIPAC-endorsed (and financed) candidates have crashed and burned. In Michigan’s U.S. Senate contest, a rabid pro-war, pro-Israel, AIPAC-backed congresswoman named Haley Stevens was defeated by a pro-Palestinian Muslim candidate named Abdul El-Sayed. AIPAC and other Israel lobby groups poured almost $70 million into Stevens’ campaign to no avail. This was AIPAC’S most disastrous defeat in U.S. politics EVER.
Remember, earlier this year, AIPAC poured over $35 million into defeating Republican Congressman Thomas Massie in Kentucky. Massie lost. AIPAC invested almost double the Massie amount to defeat El-Sayed; and they lost. El-Sayed will now face another radical pro-Zionist, pro-war Lindsey Graham clone named Mike Rogers in the general election. So, you know AIPAC will pour an additional tens of millions of dollars into trying to defeat El-Sayed.
Then, in deep-red Tennessee, another rabid, pro-war, pro-Israel, AIPAC-backed, Trump-endorsed congressman in the similitude of Lindsey Graham crashed and burned in the Tennessee 5th District. Andy Ogles ran his entire campaign on the themes of supporting Israel and spewing venom and hatred against Muslims. He was defeated by Charlie Hatcher, the former state agricultural commissioner. Hatcher won by over 6 percentage points. Not a close race at all.
In fact, there have been several AIPAC-backed candidates (including incumbents) in both parties that have lost primaries this year. Like I said, a giant sea change is taking place.
The entire Republican Party, including Donald Trump, sees the handwriting on the wall. Absent a political miracle, the GOP will crash and burn at the polls in November. That’s why there are serious discussions taking place within the GOP elite about the possibility of removing Trump from office next month. They know if Trump is still in office come November, the GOP has NO CHANCE of winning, which would build significant momentum favoring the Donkeys in the 2028 presidential elections, not to mention the potential for Trump’s impeachment and conviction.
So, what does Trump do? He does what he always does. He does the only thing he knows to do: He tries to bully his way to success.
From DemocracyDocket.com:
President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday he’s willing to declare a national security emergency in an attempt to take over American elections.
“Let me just say stranger things have happened,” Trump said, after a far-right media host implored him to exert sweeping control over the upcoming midterms during a post-midnight interview.
The comments are just the latest in a string of alarming remarks Trump has made about U.S. elections. He previously said he wanted to “nationalize” voting and regretted not ordering the military to seize ballots and election machines after his loss in the 2020 presidential election.
The president has no power to control elections. Instead, the U.S. Constitution exclusively grants states and Congress the authority over election administration.
No president has ever declared a national emergency or used wartime powers to run, alter, or cancel elections.
However, Trump has tried to unilaterally change elections twice, first through an executive order last year and second through a separate order earlier this year. Courts have blocked both orders.
Seeing all of this, even Vice President J.D. Vance is trying to subtly distance himself from Trump. (It’s probably too late. He tied his wagon to a Jackass and won’t be able to remove the smell.)
In a press conference in Washington, D.C., Vance said: “Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel.”
What Vance said is one hundred percent true. Everybody in the world hates Benjamin Netanyahu and the Zionist State of Israel. Well, except for Argentina and London, I suppose. But what message was Vance really sending? Most say it was simply to implore Israel to get behind the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) peace deal with Iran, which includes Israel pulling its forces out of Lebanon.
Of course, Israel has no intention of pulling the plug on its war of aggression in Lebanon—or in Syria, for that matter. Plus, Trump himself tore up the MOU before the ink was even dry.
No, I think Vance was saying something else. I think he was saying that the next U.S. president—including possibly him—would NOT continue U.S. support for Israel.
In July, Vance also said: “It doesn’t bother me that Israel tries to do this [influence U.S. political decisions]. What does bother me is when those [Israeli] operations, those [Israeli] influence campaigns, actually affect American political judgement.”
As you can imagine, Vance was immediately excoriated by the Epstein billionaire class and its cutouts such as Mark Levin.
Yes, I hear my readers’ thoughts: J.D. Vance is but a bought-and-paid-for lackey of Peter Thiel and his cabal of Zionist technocrats. I know that. I’m merely pointing out what Vance SAID. In Washington, D.C., rhetoric is everything. No one pays attention to what politicians actually DO. I believe Vance was talking to U.S. voters, NOT Benjamin Netanyahu. Vance sees the massive sea change against support for Israel and is trying to get his surfboard up on the wave early.
Regardless, will Donald Trump actually attempt to declare a State of Emergency and federalize the U.S. elections in November? Would he dare attempt such a thing? You bet he would! Will he succeed? Absolutely not!
I don’t think there's a snowball's chance in Hades that Trump will be able to pull off such a draconian, dictatorial, tyrannical maneuver. And I think there is a good chance that Trump will not even be in the Oval Office come November.
But the point is, this is the kind of thing that Donald Trump has done his entire life and throughout his two presidential administrations. The man is a wannabe tyrant. He is a bully. He is a thug. He is a gangster. He has zero conscience. He will do (and has done) whatever he is able to get away with. If he could get away with seizing the elections, he would absolutely do it. But thank God, there is still enough of our Constitution left that even a powerful thuggish gangster like Donald Trump is not able to do everything he wants to do.
It’s really funny, when you think about it. When Trump wins, election integrity is intact, but when he loses, the elections are rigged.
Are there problems within the election system? You bet! But those problems are localized, as each state and county has its own independent checks and balances. Our Founding Fathers understood the corrupt nature of man, which is why, under our Constitution, control of the elections is under the authority and oversight of the states and counties and NOT the executive branch of government in Washington, D.C.
When a man as corrupt and conscienceless as Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office, he intrinsically has more power under our Constitution than any gangster and con man should ever be allowed to have. But that’s not the fault of the Constitution; that’s the fault of voters who pay no heed to honesty, integrity and character when they go to the polls and vote.
Will Trump attempt to take over the elections in November? Yes! Will he succeed? No!
Thank God!
© Chuck Baldwin
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