Trump and the stooges he sends out to talk on T.V. are telling us, “Yes, things are not so good right now, what with the inflation and tariffs and stock market crash and collapse of consumer confidence. But hold on! Things are darkest just before the dawn. We’re going to have the greatest economic boom in history, so just hold on tight and trust President Trump.”
Do you trust Trump? Every economic expert is predicting soaring inflation (on top of what we’ve already experienced), and a steep recession, perhaps as early as summer. Stagflation looms as an additional possibility. The U.S. stands nearly alone in the world, as longstanding allies like Canada, France and Britain realize Trump has sold them down the river. Trump, who promised to lower prices from “day one,” instead has brought America to the brink of panic. It’s horrifying to see his ignorant Cabinet monkeys trot out in front of the cameras and repeat his mantra of “prosperity for all.” Even worse is the paralysis of the Republican Congress, all of whom Trump has emasculated. Someday we’re going to have to have the equivalent of the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, when we held the Nazi officials responsible for the crimes they had unleashed on the world. I only hope to live long enough to see Trump, Vance, Bannon, Stephen Miller, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson and every other MAGA bigwig in the dock—and that includes Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
I know that some of my readers think quite highly of Donald Trump, although they may be too embarrassed to admit it. Trump has done some of the things we’ve been urging for years. He’s fought back against the excesses of wokeness, including the racism of DEI. He’s supported cops and talked about getting tough on crime. Those are all good things. At the same time, he’s divided Americans like no other president in more than a century. He’s unleashed his Christian terrorist goons on the LGBTQ community, for whose suffering he bears total responsibility. He’s taken away the right to an abortion from American women. He’s scapegoated immigrants and foreigners and is in the process of shredding many of the civil rights protections of the Constitution. His personal vulgarity and crudeness have lowered the standards of our political discourse in deeply unsettling ways. His rapacious greed, and the way he has used his power to enrich himself and his truly repellent family, are without precedent in American history. The contempt in which he holds science—evidenced by his hiring of the cretinous RFK Jr.—should alarm all people who want to eliminate diseases. And his deliberate trashing of the nation’s scientific research institutions means that the U.S. will cede the lead it’s always held in that area to countries like China. I’m not particularly conspiratorial, but I increasingly find myself thinking that Trump is a clandestine agent for Russia. Certainly, if he actually were, he couldn’t do more damage to America than he currently is.
These are my opinions, not necessarily those of the other members of the Coalition for a Better Oakland. But I think these are also the opinions of a growing number of Americans. By the tens of thousands each day, our fellow citizens are realizing that something awful is devouring America. Trump supporters must be getting headaches lately, trying to justify their affection for the man while at the same time witnessing the demise of America and knowing that Dear Leader is the cause. It’s said in the media that Trump no longer cares what anyone thinks of him; he’s beyond being concerned about “the optics.” He’s going to continue his rampage because he believes no one can or will stop him. He once boasted that he has “the gun owners and the military” on his side. He apparently still believes that. It may come down to the U.S. military having to decide which is more important, Trump or the Constitution. Because we can’t have both.
Steve Heimoff