Reality Check: Even if He is Impeached Donald Trump Will Have Done Great Damage to American Society

[sheshe2]

***This is an excerpt from the middle of the article, seems our tools are not working since we went down.***

And of course there were the loyalty oaths. While Trump’s demand that Comey pledge personal fealty to him has been the subject of much recent discussion, this habit by Trump is not new. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump demanded that his public do the same thing. At the time, this was treated by too many voices in the news media as just a feature of Trump’s professional-wrestling political rodeo routine. In reality, Trump’s demand for loyalty was far more sinister. An authoritarian leader believes that he is the embodiment of the state and above the law. The people are to be bent to his will. Truth is something to be remade in the interest of the leader. In total, this is the logic of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and, yes, Donald Trump.

Unfortunately, Donald Trump’s presidency is not a professional wrestling narrative or a dystopian movie. It is real life. This bizarre political horror movie will not end when the lights come on.

Once Trump’s time in office is over — however it may end, and however soon — the American people will not have crawled through miles of human waste and then washed themselves with a bar of soap before escaping to freedom, like Tim Robbins’ character in “The Shawshank Redemption.” A reckoning remains upon us. By calling forth the submerged specters of fascism and authoritarianism to win a presidential election, Donald Trump and the Republican Party have irreparably harmed American democracy in ways that cannot be easily foreseen. As such, the American people must be prepared for the fact this crisis will not be fully rectified by removing one man from office, or electing one political party in place of the other.

Instead, the United States needs a domestic Marshall Plan where the country’s broken schools are fixed; extremes of wealth and income inequality are reduced; money is no longer considered “free speech”; media concentration and monopolies are ended; the Fairness Doctrine is reinstated; the Republican Party’s voter suppression and gerrymandering tactics are deemed illegal by the courts and voters; civic literacy is nurtured; and the loneliness, collective bewilderment and white racism that carried Trump to the White House are remedied.

One additional intervention may also be necessary if the country is to successfully counter the forces that birthed American fascism in the form of Donald Trump and his movement. We may require open public meetings and town halls where Trump’s voters are invited to explain their decision to support him, and as a political community the American people collectively confront the social and political forces that radicalized their fellow citizens.

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As the article ends... it says...Trump is our test. We can not walk away from our politics. We can never be complacent. We have to yell and continue to RESIST for the rest of our lives. It does not stop here.

[roamer65]

1. Frankly, I'll be shocked if the US celebrates the 2026 sestercentennial in its current form.

I will be very shocked if the republic still exists.

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. A full generation of decay

If we are lucky, the damage can be repaired in one or two - but only if we start immediately and pretty much do the opposite of everything the GOP stands for.

[sheshe2]

3. Probably generations of decay and irreparable damage to our earth and our people...

if they get the chance to stack SCOTUS.