This may sound whacked out, but it’s still something to consider. Could he do it? Would he do it? We may not find out until it happens, *IF* it happens. But still, not without merit. The author of the piece that will be quoted is highly reputable. She writes very, very interesting columns. They make you think. From AlterNet [subscription required for this one]:
Curtis Yarvin, whose philosophy punctuates the main tenets of Project 2025, supported Trump’s campaign because he thought Trump would overthrow democratic institutions and replace the presidency with a “Monarchist CEO,” who would run the country like a for-profit corporation. The New Yorker reported that Yarvin, the Project 2025 philosopher, proposed “that the U.S. government be replaced with a monarchy led by a ‘CEO-king’ that would have “absolute power, dismantle democratic institutions, and liquidate the existing government bureaucracy.”
That certainly sounds like what Trump is doing right now. He’s grabbing power from Congress. He has cowed the conservatives of the Supreme Court. The others stand up to him but it doesn’t matter, because there are only three. We’ve had some great dissents from them. Too bad the rest of the court is afraid of Trump. What happened to apolitical? How long has it been since we saw that? Been a long time, for sure. Absolute immunity. Thanks, folks. See what you did?
But earlier this month, Yarvin lamented on his Substack that Trump hadn’t gone far enough, fast enough. Perhaps Trump’s unprecedented 13 billionaires serving as his “cabinet” can read Yarvin’s lament and get to the part where he intuits that Democrats’ 2026 midterm blowout will bring a tsunami of legal reckoning.
Hmmmm. Ya think? What good will legal reckoning do when the Supreme Court will overturn it? Seriously now. Just can’t see it – unless the majority of SCOTUS grows a damn backbone and conscience. We know *that* isn’t happening.
Yarvin is so fearful of what he calls “liberal vengeance” to come that he has publicly revealed plans to leave the country. There’s also speculation that Trump and his enablers will do the same rather than face legal fire if Republicans can’t rig the 2026 midterms. What really may be driving Trump’s private ventures abroad is his predator’s sense that his second coup attempt, like his first, will fail.
So maybe yes, maybe no. The Republicans can certainly rig the 2026 midterms. They’re working on it now with the blatant gerrymandering, and we are behind. So far, they are up to nine seats: we are waiting on the Prop 50 vote in California and hoping it will pass. But that’s still not enough. It’s only 5. We need help from at least one blue state, if not more. Up to now, everyone’s wimping out on us. So Trump and helpers (hello Mike Johnson) may or may not flee the country. Wouldn’t put it past him, actually. At least we’d be rid of him. But if we lose in the middle, well, that’s all she wrote, and that’s the end of our democracy. What a sobering thought. If only I could send this to blue state governors….
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