
<p>Having been involved in politics for more than half a century, I can honestly say that I have never seen an election season in which the political narratives are so outrageous. ;</p>



<p>It is not my imagination. You hear it all the time. “It never used to be like this,” is the common refrain (except for the Civil War, of course.) The Democrat and anti-Trump establishment would have us voters believe that the American Republic will become a dictatorship if President Trump is returned to the White House. There will never again be free elections. Trump will seize control of the judiciary. The military will capitulate. The Congress will be a rubber stamp. Political enemies will be tracked down, jailed or &#8230; killed. There is a secret MAGA army ready to engage in a new Civil War.</p>



<p>This is not a movie script, but what politicians and the left-wing media are saying &#8230; literally. ; The Democrats’ entire campaign is based on fearmongering Trump. ; He is openly compared to Hitler – a reference that was taboo in American politics in the past.</p>



<p>Granted, Trump is not like any President in the past – but not entirely unlike some past presidents. President Theodore Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson were tough-talking bullies in their time. Jackson, who is honored by the Democrat Party, was far worse than Trump. He was a lethal white supremacist, who caused the deaths of thousands of Native Americans.</p>



<p>If you talk about an American dictatorship, you have to look to Franklin Roosevelt. He amassed and used – abused – more presidential power than any President prior or since. He was a white supremacist who oppressed Black Americans – and crafted his New Deal programs to take jobs from Black workers for the benefit of the Depression-deprived White workers. There is a reason he was dubbed “The First American Dictator.” He was such a danger to the Republic that upon his death, the Congress quickly passed the 22nd Amendment limiting presidents to two terms. </p>



<p>That limit would apply to Trump if he should win reelection. ; Those who suggest otherwise are either tin hat nutcases or people pushing an absurd agenda out of political desperation.</p>



<p>Since Democrats are losing the support of votes on virtually every key issue, they cannot run on the economy, inflation, immigration, crime, the Fentanyl crisis, foreign policy, or anything else that matters to every American. So, they are stuck with abortion and demonizing Trump – AND every American who supports him, which just may be a majority of American voters. </p>



<p>American hyperbole gained a foothold in the 2020 presidential election – although Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Trump Resistance Movement started the day after his election in 2016.</p>



<p>Most of the end-of-the-Republic rhetoric is founded on a false premise – that what happened on January 6, 2021, was an insurrection. That is what they call it even though it is more accurately described as a riot – and not the worst one America has seen over many years. They wrongfully call it an attempted coup – and claim that the forces of Trump are poised to take over America by force.</p>



<p>They accuse a Supreme Court justice of complicity in the grand MAGA scheme to bring down the Republic because of an upside-down flag his wife put up in a feud with a neighbor &#8230;or the flying of the historic Revolutionary War Pine Tree Flag at a summer home. A flag that to this day is the official maritime standard for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. For more than 200 years, it – and other historic flags – have been flown as symbols of freedom. Yes, it was seen on Capitol Hill on January 6<sup>th</sup>, but so were many other historic American banners – including the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag.</p>



<p>The left claims that members of Congress showing support for Trump during his so-called Hush Money Trial were all wearing red ties and dark suits as a symbol of their MAGA affiliation. First of all, they were NOT all wearing the same red ties – some even had predominantly blue ties. In fact, they looked like what you see in the halls of Congress every day. There was no symbolic uniform. Just House members wearing what you see on Republicans AND Democrats in the halls of Congress every day.</p>



<p>Democrats and their media allies keep getting more and more extreme in the fearmonger strategy for one simple reason. ; It has not been working, so they believe they have not yet scared the public sufficiently. ; They think they need to double down. They are taking their own snake oil medicine – and when it fails to work, they think more is needed. ; But &#8230; people are too smart. ; They know political bullsh*t when they see it – even when it is being produced in record amounts.</p>



<p>If there is any threat to the Republic – and to the personal constitutional freedoms of the people – it is coming from the authoritarian progressives, who believe in a powerful regulatory central government run by an entrenched elite establishment that rules over – not for – the people.</p>



<p>Yes, this is an important election in 2020. ; Neither candidate is the people’s choice. ; One is pugnacious and the other is losing it. ; That appears to be the choice we face when real voting begins. ; If the election were today, most analysts on both sides believe Trump would win.</p>



<p>If Democrats and the media keep peddling the patently bogus end-of-the- Republic narrative – and insulting the loyalty of half the American people and the intelligence of all of us&#8211; I suspect Trump will triumph in November. ;</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

Flags, ties and insurrections … and other leftwing myths
