Congress has introduced legislation to make June 14 a holiday honoring FOTUS. I so agree. June 14 should be American Seditionist Day!
Think about it. He ran for president in 2016 and won despite having less than a majority vote. His second impeachment came after the insurrection he fomented on January 6, 2021. This occurred after he lost the 2020 election, a fact he continues to deny. In its infinite wisdom, the Senate failed to convict because he was no longer in office, and they saw no point.
In light of the January 6 committee reports and various indictments against him, he did the only thing he could: he ran for President AGAIN, won the Republican nomination easily, and was elected with a plurality, not majority, of the vote, in 2024. He was convicted in one trial but would serve no consequential punishment because, by then, he was President-elect.
I came across a Substack article, Comparing Trump and Hitler’s Tactics During Their First Weeks in Office, by Rabbi Jonathan Kligler. “Both pretended to be populists in order to stir the passions of their base. Both were considered to be buffoons by those that saw through their lies, but both were woefully underestimated by their opponents…. Once in power, both immediately took dramatic action to consolidate their power with complete disdain for democratic rules and norms.
“Both had previously attempted violent overthrows of their democratically-elected governments… When those violent attempts failed to secure power, both plotted to secure their power through legal means, the better to enact a bloodless coup d’etat.
If at first…
“Upon securing power, Hitler and Trump each claimed overwhelming electoral mandates to transform their governments, despite neither having won a majority of the vote. They both immediately moved to purge their governments of anyone they considered insufficiently loyal. They weaponized their judiciaries and law enforcement agencies to terrorize and punish their opponents.
“They took advantage of paralyzed and supine legislatures to usurp power…” Indeed. He’s inspired people in Congress to go after, even threaten impeachment, of “activist” judges, who are merely putting on the Constitutional brakes on spending freezes that Congress – Article I Congress – usually fails to do.
“On his first day in office, Trump granted clemency to every person charged or convicted for their role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, calling them patriots.” He has suggested offering the perpetrators compensation.
And now, FOTUS says: “I’ll tell you, I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election, was totally rigged. So it’s actually sort of a fourth term in a certain way. I just don’t want the credit for the second because [former President Joe] Biden was so bad, he did such a bad job, and I think that’s one of the reasons that I’m popular, if you want to know the truth.”
What he is telegraphing is that he has no intention of ceding power on January 20, 2029, and may find a backdoor way of staying around.
He is a consequential President, wrecking international trade markets, debasing the US around the world, and shredding the social safety net.
So, FOTUS is president again, despite his many crimes, a remarkable political feat that deserves recognition. Happy American Seditionist Day is coming! In honor of the holiday, I shall heretofore refer to him as the Seditionist!