An awful thought came to me after listening to this. Maybe Joe Biden was our last president and maybe Donald Trump will be known historically as our first dictator. And the 250th anniversary of our nation’s birth will be the first year of our nation’s new form of government, Trumpistocracy, to give it a name. Or MAGAstocracy. We know it’s a kakistocracy already, that fact is proven every single day. As you’ve heard, Trump is at Ft. Bragg today, where he is doing everything from announcing the restoration of Confederate names to military bases, to displaying his ignorance of basic history. But here’s where he crossed an interesting line, one that no other *president* before him has.
Trump giving a partisan political speech on a military base to active duty troops, something that George Washington said in his farewell address to the nation that a president should never do. https://t.co/jd7BWeQsF4
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 10, 2025
This is so wrong, on so many levels. This is asking the military to take a partisan stance, something which they are not supposed to do. They are sworn to uphold the Constitution — but for that matter, so is Trump. And this is not what upholding the Constitution looks like. This is what an autocrat ginning up his military enforcement arm looks like.
We're in as much trouble as we think we are. Actually probably even worse.
— Blue California Native🌻 (@WFPBLifer) June 10, 2025
Actually, Ron is wrong. Republicans in Congress are talking a plenty. And they’re pleased as punch, to borrow a line from Hubert Humphrey, that all this is taking place.
President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and hundreds of Marines to quell a Los Angeles protest against mass deportation has triggered a firestorm of controversy — but in the Senate, Republicans are right on board with him, said Joe Perticone in an analysis for The Bulwark.
“We surveyed a number of Senate Republicans about the idea of sending the army into LA and … you may wanna sit down … they’re thrilled with it,” Sam Stein wrote on X, prefacing the article.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said, “I think he needs to restore order. I’m mainly concerned about public safety and the president has clearly got authority in his federal capacity to deal with the National Guard. So, plenty of precedent.”
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who also went on Fox News to tell Democrats to “pop a Zoloft” over the affair, agreed, saying, “These weren’t just protests — these were riots. And it was clear that the governor and the mayor — the mayor’s idea of containment was to give them a hug and a cup of hot cocoa. And the president did what he had to do.”
He added of the plan to send in the Marines, “I don’t think they’ll do it unless it’s legal. But if it’s necessary to contain the riots, yeah. We need to send whatever we have to end [the riots].”
Meanwhile, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) appeared not to actually understand the situation, Perticone wrote.
“I was encouraged to hear that the mayor stated that the city and the federal government are now working collaboratively, and I think that’s the way it should be,” he said, seemingly unaware Mayor Karen Bass had condemned the response as a “chaotic escalation.”
This is not surprising. What has been apparent since 2015, when Trump began to do well in polls and then in primaries in 2016, is that he does represent GOP thought. Trump does represent not only the Republican id along with its lunatic fringe, he represents what I’ll call the Silent Majority of Republicans, who are as racist as the day is long. They love seeing this showdown (soon to be literal shoot out) on Main Street, Newsom wearing the white hat and Trump wearing the black — but of course they see the hat color as the opposite.
The Republicans don’t care if there’s bloodshed. And they really don’t care if there’s never another election. That would suit them just fine. Once again I repeat David Frum’s comment in 2018, which was considered radical at the time: “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
Donald Trump is the perfect Republican president in so many ways. Unfortunately, he’s the absolute nadir and antithesis of an American president, in the America that is a democracy. Something’s gotta give and what will it be?
Mike Johnson talks about tar and feathering gov of cal.
I would call it “leukandrocracy” myself, because that explicitly recognizes how invested the MAGAts are in both color and gender. But I might settle for “leukocracy” because the word “patriarchy” already exists.
Any system in which it’s not what you know – it’s not even who you know – it’s what your skin looks like, whether that be in color or nn shape, or both, is not going to be a remotely fair system.