When I first wrote this, I was unaware of the infamous power point presentation, which gave a step by step action plan to usurp the U.S. government and undo a lawful election. If that doesn't frighten you as to the power that Donald Trump holds over his followers, I honestly don't know what will.
Under the guise of anger over subpoenas, Mark Meadows filed a lawsuit against the January 6th commission and speaker Pelosi. Normally, this would be just another chapter in an ongoing Watergate style melodrama. When one looks beyond the surface, you'll see The Cult Of Trump is still alive and well. The likes of Meadows and Steve Bannon are ready to embrace prison time in order to protect their messiah, Donald J. Trump. It doesn't matter that Trump shows no loyalty to them in the slightest, and has no qualms about throwing themselves under the bus to save his own ass. Nor at the very least, after a falling out, Trump is dismissive of them, tossing insults not long after praising them.
Despite his self-assured airs that he puts on, Trump deep down is an emotionally scarred soul seeking the constant praise that his father gave him. And before you have the slightest bit of pity for him, Fred Trump may not have showered himself with love, he did pass down his misogynistic and racist world views to his son. after all, it was Donald who tried to bar African-Americans from renting his apartments, and demanded that a group of African-American youths that had been found not guilty be executed for a crime they did not commit. Combine that with the fact he disposes of his wives once they no longer serve a purpose, or his rather creepy incest rial interest in his own daughter, can someone explain why a rational person would pledge any sort of loyalty to him?
It comes down to the cult mentality. Trump has managed to convince not only those that serve him, but those who voted for him that they cannot fix their own problems, and that he alone can fix everything. He drives home the point in his speeches that he is their savior, and that they are weak and in need of protecting against mythical henchmen out to harm them. One of his first edicts was to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. Something that without a doubt gave Al Qaeda and other such groups motivation and a great recruiting tool. However, to his base, one that feared anyone from the Middle East, Trump was a godsent, protecting them from a bully. He used their fears of the Transgender community to invoke a ban on transgender people in the military. Once again, through hatred and bigotry, he's view as a savoir. Once Trump quipped that there were "good people" among the Nazis that offered a counter protest to the Black Lives Matter movement, suddenly everyone who held a racist view felt comfortable express such un public. Trump had assured them that hating someone because of the color of their skin was acceptable in society, thus spawning countless viral videos of angry people shouting disgusting words that aren't fit to, nor should they ever be repeated. Whereas Nero played his fiddle while Rome burned, Trump poured gasoline and lit the fire, and watched, emotionally aroused as any good arsonist would be watching their handywork.
When brings us to the likes of Mark Meadows. He stands now, ready to sacrifice himself to appease his god, Trump. Despite turning over documents, Meadows is now refusing to testify before a committee that is seeking to investigate the role a sitting president played in an attempted overthrow of the U.S. government. The U.S. Capitol was stormed by people not unlike Meadows, grown adults set lose on command. By all accounts, Trump watched from afar as the halls were breached. Even as they threatened to murder Mike Pence, Trump's vice president, he stood by and did nothing. If anything, Trump might have been orgasmic that an attempted coup was in place, merely because he planted the suggestion of a stolen election. Trump was enjoying playing God.
Meadows and Steve Bannon are Trump's foot soldiers, not unlike mafia hitmen. Both are seemingly willing to face sanctions and jail time in order to maintain their loyalty to a man that does not care about them. It's gamesmanship, with Trump's foot soldiers trying to run out the clock so that the Republicans can achieve the power to shut down the committee, thus allowing Trump to skirt justice yet again, as he has so many times before.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is a cautionary tale. Kemp, who is no choir boy himself, refused Trump's pleas not to certify the election, thus bringing an end to his reign in the White House. Until that moment, Trump offered nothing but praise for Kemp, calling him one of the best governors in the country. Today Trump is endorsing David Perdue, who like Trump, spreads falsehoods about a stolen election. Trump has taken to issuing press releases where he still calls himself President Trump. He's called Kemp a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and Trump is using his pulpit to convince the people of the state of Georgia that Kemp cannot be trusted. Much like anyone that fancies themselves a king or a messiah, once you've displeased the master, and he's no longer in need of your services, he'll cast you out, and turn you into a pariah.
Kevin McCarthy, Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows all seek to remain in the good graces of Trump. McCarthy is willing to destroy America's standing on the world stage, send us into default, destroy the good credit with have with other nations, and take down the U.S. economy all to remain in Trump's good graces. Now that is frightening that anyone should have that much sway over another human being. This is the world we live in right now. If anything, we need not wonder how Hitler, Jim Jones, or any other cult leader got people to fall under their sway. It's all about dominate ego consuming the smaller, weaker egos. And as long as Trump walks free, without serving a single stint in prison, or suffer some fall from grace, McCarthy, Bannon, Meadows, and all the like that hang on his every word, and follow every edict with blind loyalty, they will still him as the messiah. He's the new Golden Calf. And until that day comes where he falls from grace, America will teeter on the brink. For being a democratic republic, to being a fascist state.
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