Townhall: Yesterday was an attack on our country, the first salvo of the war openly declared on conservatives. The FBI raid of a former President's home has never happened in the history of our country. My Comment: Raids on homes by law enforcement are of course legal if there is good reason for the raid. But in this warring context it's seen as the deep state's attack on the man who claims to be working for "we the people", namely Donald Trump. As we all know Trump (and his followers) assert that the last American election was rigged in favour of the "deep state" as might an "election" in a tin-pot dictatorship like Putin's Regime. One interpretation of the fact that it's "never happened in the history of our country" is that the Trump administration was the first time the US has hosted an arguably wholly corrupt maverick president. Townhall: The radical left showed the corrupt lengths they will go to in order to stop President Trump from running in '24, but as Trump has always said, "In reality they're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in the way." The same corrupt FBI and DOJ that cooked up the Russian Collusion Hoax struck again. This time, to a whole new level. The weaponization of the government against political opponents and its citizens cannot stand. These are dark times for our nation. My Comment: The FBI and DOJ: These are very important institutions of state: So either they are corrupt, which is a very serious threat to democracy, or it is Townhall that is corrupt and/or falling for conspiracy theories . It seems we can't have it two ways here: What ever side we take it follows from Townhall's fulminations that American democracy is in peril either because the state itself is irredeemably corrupt or because the far-right are looking for a pretext to grab power by telling stories of conspiracy. Again, notice that the government is being accused of the most Machiavellian activities and not just of peddling bad politics & policies submitted within an accountable democratic forum; Townhall are telling us that the forum itself must go. As one Trump supporter told me "The republic is being rebirthed": A euphemism for overthrow? Donald Trump of course has an interest in stoking-up the fear of "we the people" by spreading abroad conspiracy theories about a deep state out to get them. Townhall's talk of a government against political opponents and its citizens would be an appropriate description of Putin's regime... so is that what Townhall is claiming to have become of American democracy? As for the so-called "Radical left"; ask a Marxist or even a Critical Theorist whether the current American state can be said to be in the hands of "the radical left". No! Rather America is a capitalist democracy with liberal values and which tolerates dissenters: If it didn't Townhall would have been suppressed and Donald Trump jailed or poisoned. Townhall: We the people (sic) are fed up and angry as hell. Join us in fighting back. But we need your help to continue to tell the truth. My Comment: ....via "Truth Social", perhaps, the only truth teller of "We the people"? Townhall: By joining Townhall VIP, you'd be directly supporting our in-depth investigative reporting exposing the corruption of the Biden cabal. There are no ads—just pure conservative writing that will arm you with the truth and cut through the liberal media's BS. Every penny is devoted to telling the truth liberals don't want you to know. From just this morning: "The guy who created the Russia collusion hoax in 2016 and orchestrated the widespread, coordinated campaign to change election laws and processes in 2020 admits this is about the regime rigging yet another election." 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My Final Comment: Yes, of course, they want our dollars to subsidize their civil war against the liberal media establishment and the state they claim rigs elections; In Townhall's perceptions all the status quo institutions of American democracy and in fact the entire federal government are part of a "cabal" opposing the MAGA savior of America, Donald Trump. If this was really true and the US establishment was really a Putin-look-a-like that jails and kills opponents then their cause would be just. But I'm finding it very difficult to believe that a well established and publicly argumentative system like the US is really in the grip of a Putin-like regime. Although its true that many in the American populace have had a long fascination for intriguing establishment conspiracy theories I've only become aware of the kind of civil war talk we get from the far-right becoming mainstream since the rise of Donald Trump, a man who has a rapport with conspiracy theorists and dictators (See here, here & here). For me this implicates Trump as a possible dictator-in-waiting.... either that or (actually, more likely) a successor of whom Trump will be the "king-maker". What for me has clearly disqualified Trump as a truth teller and made him more of an antichrist-like figure is his conspiracy theorism, his talking of "draining the swamp" of government, his side kick Michael Flynn advocating the use military force to get the "election" result Trump wanted, Trump's intimidation of an election official, his tendency to divide rather than unify, his ex-chief strategist Steve Bannon praising Putin and above all Trump's ability to dupe Christian fundamentalists. Footnote * I hope I'm just paranoid and it's all a storm in tea-cup: Somebody who probably knows American politics better than I do said that both Republicans and Democrats want Trump gone.... but for Republicans no doubt in a face-saving way that looks as though they never really changed sides. Perhaps there's a job here for Mike Pence if he wasn't branded such a "traitor" by Trump's followers! Crank's Corner Featured at "infowars" 13/8022: Alex Jones, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon, Trump's ex-chief strategist.
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