Reflections From Roger Fitch

 Another Bonaparte takes the throne 

Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Justinian in Donald Trump, Roger Fitch Esq, US Presidential election, US politics

The Second Coming of Trump ... A circus of corruption and revenge ... Rewards for the "losers" ... Assembling the infrastruction of authoritarianism ... DoJ cases up for "negotiation" ... The knavery of Louis Napoleon ... Parallels aplenty ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

"Trumpism is seeking to advance a revolutionary transvaluation of values by inverting the morality that undergirds both traditional conservatism and liberal institutionalism. In this inversion, norms and rules that counsel and enforce propriety, restraint, and deference to institutional authority become vices, while flouting them become virtues. The result is a radical form of political action that gives a central governing role to 'bad' men who enjoy provoking the outraged indignation of those incapable of their own similarly bold acts of defiance" - Damon Linker, Notes from the Middleground

"[A]s Trump mounts his next assault on good government and decency, there will be too many misdeeds to follow. There won't be enough journalists to cover all his villainy and its consequences - neither at the local nor national levels. The media industry has been decimated in the past two decades, with a sharp decline in news reporters on the beat. Having fewer watchdogs allows grifters, miscreants, and outright crooks to get away with wrongdoing" - David Corn, Mother Jones

"This nation ... has no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln…" - Ex parte Milligan (1866).

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