The End of the American Republic

Joe Biden's condition all but guarantees Trump's victory in November. Is Trump an "existential threat"? No. Trump is just an un-principled pragmatist, a narcicistic megalomaniac, and a pathological liar. Incapable to hold even a simple idea and stand by it, he contradicts half of his statements while labelling the other half as fake news. He's religious but not really, he's conservative when not liberal, he is what the moment requires him to be. He admires Putin, adores Kim Jong Un and bemoans knowing that he will never be like them. He wants to make America great again but hasn't the faintest idea what made it great in the first place. He was one of the worst Presidents in America's history and his next term will be even worse. But an existential threat, no. He wouldn't know where to start.

The same cannot be said about JD Vance, Trump's choice for Vice-President. JD Vance is downright dangerous. He checks all the boxes - good looking, young, smart, articulate, working class roots, former Marine, tour in Iraq, law degree from Yale. And he holds some of the most vicious, anti-American, ideas.

"If I was giving [Trump] one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people." OUR people!

“We are in a late republican period. If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.” A reference to the late Roman Republic, awaiting salvation from Caesar himself. WILD and FAR OUT!

“And when the courts stop you, stand before the country, and say 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.' ” So, nothing can stop him, not even the Supreme Court. To hell with the Constitution, the Congress, individual rights, and the checks and balances of the American system of government. Congress and the Courts can only produce words. Him, on the other hand, he's the one holding the Executive Power.

Well, not him, yet. He only has to lie in waiting, sharpening his dagger, for Caesar to cross the Rubicon. It's only four years until 2028.