As an old person who lived through the Nixon administration and Watergate, I predict that the Trump regime will far eclipse the venality, illegality and sheer audacity of anything Nixon and his coterie of conspirators perpetrated.
First, Nixon had to contend with a Democratic Congress and Senate and the tail end of the Warren Supreme Court. Nixon and cohorts committed many crimes, but were forced to resign; and his minions were convicted and went to jail.
Trump and his cabinet cavalcade of horrors face none of these impediments. Trump is surrounded by white supremacists, Christian Dominionists, extreme right wing conspiracy theory followers, rabid Islamophobes, homophobes, misogynists, militarists and corporate oligarchs.
The far right wing controls the Congress and the Senate and is about to get the majority of the Supreme Court.
The Trump, Ryan, McConnell, Koch Brothers, Pence agenda is about to gut most human service, education, public lands, environmental and health care programs, create an extremely regressive tax system pouring billions into the accounts of the uber rich, and destroy the wall separating Church and State. And about to plunge American and international foreign policy into a world crisis.
By the time this junta is over, the corruption and nefarious acts perpetrated by this cabal will have reached historical and irreparable proportions the likes the nation and the world may have never seen.
In hindsight, maybe if Obama and Holder had held accountable and prosecuted the Bush administration for war crimes and the bankers for malfeasance; or if fucking Pelosi had instituted articles of impeachment against Bush when the Democrats held the House; and if Obama had pushed the "Blue Dog" Democrats to institute a true Keynesian like recovery stimulus plan like the New Deal or even instituted the Public Option as part of the ACA -- maybe those acts would have prevented the rise of Trump. Maybe.
Instead, we have this nightmare. We are a nation now held captive by the decision of a minority of low information ignoramuses and self serving asshole rich fucks, and an antiquated bureaucratic system designed by slave owners to ensconce this insidious blustering authoritarian Il Douche fuck in the White House.
We are POWs stuck in a virtual Tiger Cage and about to be tortured by never ending Trump decrees and blood spectacle for who knows how long.
What do we do about it?
