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On Sunday, the Vice President to the Felon-in-Chief had the temerity to say, "If I was giving the President one piece of advice, it would be to fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state. Replace them with our people. And when the courts—because you will get taken to court—and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"
Jackson supposedly said that after he evicted Cherokee Indians from northern Georgia, despite the Supreme Court determining, in 1834, that the Cherokees owned the region. Like that executive genocide, what is happening in Washington currently is horrifying to watch. The trouble is it feels like all we can do is watch.
A recent news story reported a record number of daily phone calls to congressional switchboards. Those calls need to increase and multiply. We live in a day, however, when one party controls all three branches of government, and they do not care about what is best for the nation or their constituents. They only care about the opinion of a twice-impeached convicted felon. Can you imagine how history will judge this age of lawless unaccountability? Of course, even ethical historians have their livelihoods threatened in an administration whose only value is fealty to an adjudicated sex offender.
The current administration is conducting an often illegal purge of anyone who isn’t a part of the MAGA cult. Most terrifying of all, by purging the Justice Department and appointing only puppets, and by politicizing the FBI and military, we are enduring a bloodless coup with no one left to enforce the law, let alone decency.
I keep hearing people say it will swing back in two years. My fear is our nation will be so mortally wounded after two months of this recovery may be impossible. We will be those who history will record in the same light as Germans who silently watched as the Nazis came to power. Their compliance and complicity are what led to a war in which 50-85 MILLION people died.
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