America’s First Dictator

The Brief and Evolving story of how Donald Trump tried to use Terrorism to Stay in Power.

Mussolini was executed along with his lover Claretta Petacci and their bodies were hung upside-down alongside other fascists so that Italians could spit on them. I share this not as a threat, but as a reminder to how humans in general react to autocracy particularly that which is violently enforced. (Str, Associated Press)

This story will be one that I return to later as more comes out. But for now violence has broken out in Washington, DC and it was entirely manufactured.

The Trump campaign and administration — these two entities should be but are not actually separate as a matter of law — organized itself a little protest march for November 15th. Despite the standard lies about the size of the protest the operative word here is small. The protest was — compared to BLM or “AntiFa” protests — miniscule. Despite being organized under three different names those being the “Stop the Steal,” “March for Trump,” and — to my mind the most ironic — “Million MAGA March,” only a few thousand showed up. And that’s simply because fascism really doesn’t appeal to most people particularly when it does not include designer outfits.

It appears that the Trump campaign/administration was attempting to draw a corollary with the 2017 Women’s March held a day after and dwarfing Trump’s inauguration. The Women’s March in Washington alone was estimated to be some 470,000 strong and millions of other people participated across the US and in foreign countries to protest the actual and we now know factual interference in the 2016 election. As with…