If it’s Tuesday, it must be the fifteenth installment in the series inspired by the 1991 Duke-Edwards Gret Stet governor’s race. It’s been on hiatus for a month, but it’s back baby back.
A reminder of the unofficial slogan of the race from hell:
In 2024, we’re flipping that on its head and voting AGAINST the crook. It’s even more important.
This week, we take a look at the scariest thing about the Trump cult: He loves dictators and wants to be one. I covered this aspect of the 2024 campaign in a March post called Dictator Love but it can’t be said enough. In fact, the Kaiser of Chaos continually brags about it.
Trump: You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again. pic.twitter.com/DBGcBr3Wht
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 27, 2024
The gullible MSM accepts the lame excuses offered by Republicans. According to them he’s a jolly joker, a cutup, the funniest guy in an unintentionally funny party. If he’s kidding, why is he always praising dictators? Here’s why:
The Insult Comedian has dictator envy. He loves the idea of being able to snap his fingers and make an entire nation jump. He somehow thinks that the American people are ripe for authoritarian rule. It’s what happens when you’re surrounded by sycophants. He has some powerful sycophants including the six Justices who bought his absolute immunity shtick last month. He intends to take that shtick and beat the country with it.
Trump’s first dictator love was the ruthless Russian kleptocrat, Vladimir Putin. Trump loves the idea of kleptocracy because it enriches him and his followers while tempting others to follow him.
Trump’s dictator love has expanded to include Hungary’s Viktor Orban and the bloodthirsty pipsqueak who presides over the world’s most oppressive state, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
One 21st Century dictator is excluded from the Insult Comedian’s charmed circle, Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro who just stole an election with a combination of stealth and brute force. Trump’s thumb is down on Maduro not because he’s a leftist but because he’s one of the scapegoats of the 2020 election scam. He should regard Maduro as a role model instead.
The Kaiser of Chaos has a habit of saying the unspoken part out loud. It happened again last weekend but there’s plenty of evidence that, in this case, he means what he says. He may have disavowed Project 2025 but it’s the handiwork of some of his closest associates. It’s a blue print for dictatorship, which he claims to only want to be on the first day. That’s another lie: Power is his ideology.
Do I think Trump would end elections if returned to the White House? No, but he will end free and fair elections so he can roll up Putinesque margins. This is an easy pill for most GOPers to swallow: They’re all about limiting the franchise. As far as they’re concerned free and fair elections are for suckers and losers. Don’t be one.
Repeat after me: Vote against the crook, it’s important.
The last word goes to Randy Newman with a song about Trump’s role model:
In the 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial general, the Edwin Edwards (34%) and David Duke (32%) campaigns courted incumbent “Buddy” Roemer’s (27%) stunned, shocked, and stupefied primary voters. How those voters broke would clearly determine the outcome.
Appearing prominently in seven daily newspapers throughout the state, less than two weeks out from the general, the uniquely articulated 500-word open letter attached has been generally credited as a significant factor in successfully targeting those 1991 swing voters.
The mortality reality is ineluctable: not one author remains. Never again should such group convene. Adrastos: What lesson in rhythm and rhyme must a Brat takeaway?
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© 1991, – Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, LA) – November 5, 1991
HISTORY LESSON: TYRANNY COMES STEP BY STEP
We address this message to those supporters of Gov. Roemer who “can’t bring themselves” to vote for Edwin Edwards and are considering sitting out the governor’s election. We have a special interest in this election, as we are survivors of the Holocaust, having joined our families here in Louisiana many years ago.
We were not always Holocaust survivors. In the early 1930s we and our families were white-collar professionals and blue-collar skilled tradespeople, not unlike the demographic breakdown of the undecided Roemer voters. Our friends were people such as you. They saw no danger in the methodical rise of the National Socialist Party.
Everything we have seen written and heard spoken about Mr. Duke’s neo-Nazi past misses the point. We give Mr. Duke entirely too much credit by comparing him to the Hitler of 1941; a more accurate comparison is to the Hitler of 1933. When Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany in 1933 his slogans also focused on economic protest. He presented himself as a maverick candidate and lambasted the government as corrupt and ineffective. He promised a “new Germany” to the disgruntled and dissatisfied. Millions bought into his promises. His National Socialist Party won the chancellorship of Germany in 1933 in a democratic election.
Unlike other groups of Americans, we have seen the politics of supremacy played out before. We have seen and have survived the step-by-step tactics of division, succeeding gradually to arrogate to itself sufficient power to take over the government one department at a time, one office at a time. Each minority or special interest group was sacrificed when it could no longer stand for itself until such time as the National Socialist Party became so powerful that no one could stand up to it.
Citizens of Louisiana. don’t be fooled! It can happen here.
As governor, David Duke would appoint the head of the State Police and be commander of the National Guard. He would select the members of the various state boards and commissions that have regulatory power over your business, your home, your family. He would appoint the heads of the state agencies that decide who gets medical care, housing, food. He would control appointments to the boards of our colleges and universities and have sole control over the Office of the Inspector General.
In the Germany of 1933 we could not have dreamed of the horrors that awaited us in the following years. We speak out now so that never again should anyone have to endure what we have survived. The lessons of this terrible history must never be forgotten. It is imperative that all people of good will vote on Nov. 16 and vote against David Duke. There is no other choice.
Shep Z., New Orleans Holocaust Survivors (The New Americans Social Club)
I think I know who posted this. Thanks. I have fond memories of Shep Z.