Trump’s Legacy: Fear
Real Power is—I don’t even want to use the word—fear”
Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump in an interview with Bob Woodward and
Robert Costa on March 31, 2016, at the Old Post Office Pavilion, Trump International
Hotel, Washington, D.C. in Woodward: Fear.
Mitch McConnel summarized the impeachment trial:
The insurrection was Trump’s however vile:
His vote for exoneration’s spectacular elocution
When coupled with the suggestion of criminal or civil prosecution
Spineless republican politicians cower for fear of a adverse tweet
And have always groveled at Trump’s feet
But Trump’s legacy is one of fear
Qanon, MAGA hats and proud boys linger near
Cori Bush moves her office to avoid being seen
By pistol packing Qanon Margery Taylor Green
And Republicans fear their constituency
As proud boys increase their militancy
And DC and Capitols profound
Are protected by the National Guard all around
And Republicans have shown they can ignore the facts
And blindly support Donald Trump’s insurrectionist and acts—
Criminal acts with hundreds hurt and 7 people dead
And raging mobs screaming for a bullet in Nancy Pelosi’s head
And Pence’s groveling loyalty through the years
Motivated by outright fears
Is repaid by a tweet labeling him a traitor –pure nonsense
Timed to enrage the rampaging mobs who hunt for him chanting “Hang Mike pence.
Clearly possible for on the Capitol grounds a gallows stands
Meant for use by those with lethal hands.
All this raises the prospect of a fascistic
And totalitarian future
With continuing mob attacks a way of life
As the country undergoes continuing strife.
Howard P. Charman, MD 2-14-2021
“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. Bertrand Russell in Murder Incorporated v. 3 p 301 )Abu-Jamal, Vittoria
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with endless series of hobgoblins, all of the imaginary. H.L. Mencken Murder p 306