An ex-MAGA activist warns āno civic savior is comingā as Donald Trumpās cognitive decline becomes undeniable
What if Donald Trump defeats President Biden and takes control of the White House in 2025? He has already announced his plans to become the countryās first dictator, and to launch a reign of terror and revenge against his so-called enemies. As detailed in documents such as Project 2025, Agenda 47, and elsewhere, the infrastructure is being created right now to put Trumpās neofascist plans to end multiracial pluralistic democracy in effect on āday one." The so-called resistance will not have the courtesy of ramping up or mobilizing to stop Dictator Trumpās onslaught. It will be a āshock and aweā campaign visited upon the American people.
Dictator Trumpās reign of terror will be made even worse by the fact that as shown during recent speeches, interviews, and at other events he appears to be encountering severe difficulties in cognition, language, and memory.
In a series of recent conversations with me here at Salon, Dr. John Gartner, a prominent psychologist and contributor to the bestselling book āThe Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,ā has issued this warning: āNot enough people are sounding the alarm, that based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented. In fact, we are seeing the opposite among too many in the news media, the political leaders and among the public. There is also this focus on Bidenās gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Bidenās brain is aging. Trumpās brain is dementing.ā
Not to mention that the resistance is immensely fractured. Iām still not sure that weāve seen an event heinous enough to galvanize the opposition past ideological boundaries. For many, stopping Trump is not yet enough to delay their potential political gains. Populism rides on the strongest human emotions, the easiest and vaguest enemies, and the simplest (wrong) answers. Itās going to take a united effort, the sort that was brought about by the geopolitical situation in the FDR era, or I worry that we fail.
The āresistanceā is clustering themselves into smaller and smaller areas and because of our shitty representative apportionment they lose political power when moving to populated places.
If we want to fix this we need to convince people that the amenities in cities arenāt going to survive when the federal government mainly represents empty land and thinks those amenities are from Satan.
Iām not exactly going to fault persecuted people for fleeing their homes. Itās not always about āamenitiesā as much as it is safety and belonging. Iām not against the idea that this dilutes our political power in our system, but Iām also not sure that itās the front Iām going to choose to fight on.
Absolutely. There are definitely people who need to leave in order to be safe.
But when I talk to people who donāt have that problem about living in flyover country their first response is āThereās nothing to do out there.ā
