“Evil only triumphs righteousness and goodness in the minds of evil men!” John Johnson II 06/12/24
By John Johnson II
The racial divide in America is alive. It’s approaching points as violent as those that led to the Civil War. Social progress has inflamed Republicans’ lust for power. MAGA followers’ hatred toward Black people and others of color remains as destructive as a stick of dynamite. Unfortunately, Trump holds an ignitable fuse in one hand and controls the detonator switch with the other.
Trump mastered the art of using the medium as a weapon and indoctrination tool. Using these tools, he’s taken control of the Republican Party, turned MAGA followers into a cult, elevated Evangelism, and packed the Supreme Court.
The Republican party, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, takes orders from Trump as though he’s still president. Shortly after the jury found Trump guilty, Johnson declared it as “a shameful day in American history.”
SCOTUS, rather than defend the US Constitution, appears poised to look with a blind eye as Trump prepares and promises to dismantle democracy.
Regardless of Trump’s threats to democracy, billionaires yearning for increased tax breaks funnel millions to his campaign. Their greed, however, robs them of integrity and connects them to Trump’s threats.
Evangelicals use their voting power to weaken the separation between church and state. Trump has openly anointed himself as their chosen one. Yet none of these faith practitioners have castigated this rhetoric as blasphemy. Instead, they’ve embraced him as the one to restore womanhood, reaffirm the sanctity of marriage, and open public schools to religious indoctrination.
Trump, having orchestrated the overturn of Roe v. Wade, is an Evangelical hero. Should he become president again, he’s expected to deliver an eternal death blow to women’s reproductive rights. His proclamation is to sign Federal legislation banning all abortions.
Despite Trump being the fuse that threatens to ignite another Civil War, he too will fail. His inability to gauge the American people’s willingness to defend democracy will deliver his fatal defeat. However, historians will also record that his ignorance of history caused him to suffer a perilous fate, as did Jefferson Davis, Hitler, and Mussolini.
YOU BE THE JUDGE!
