I hope America has the perdurance to survive once the fallacy of MAGA is revealed. 

I hope the demise of the once proud party of Lincoln and its willing submission to a would-be king can be rectified by a new generation of statesmen.

I hope the once dynamic and courageous Democratic party can rise from the ashes of its foolish embrace of tangential political policies and refocus on what matters to the overwhelming majority of Americans; economic security, equitable opportunity, respect for the law, and tolerance.

This is my country that has lost its mind. Or more correctly, this is our country.

“When a country goes mad, it has the right to commit every horror in its own wall.” Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel.

I fear many of our fellow Americans believe the current President has such rights without recognizing the incipient madness on display right in front of them.

The unfortunate part is this isn’t some secret master plan someone with a conscience or a grudge might leak to the world and unveil the sinister plot. Not at all. They learned their lesson well in the first term (too bad America’s memory lasts only to yesterday).

“A country is first ruled by a class (wealthy), then a party (MAGA), then a committee within the party (Project 2025), then one person who swiftly eliminates the committee.” (Parenthetical quotes are mine.)

Rosa Luzemburg

This time, they published exactly what they are going to do. Project 2025 is the blueprint, the plan. And, like all plans, it is evolving as conditions warrant. But the foundational document is there for anyone to read. 

The economic warfare on allies and enemies alike. However, one might argue it is even simpler than that distinction, boiling down to the USA versus Everybody else.

The demonizing of immigrants, blurring the lines between those here illegally and those who resemble those here legally. They have created out of whole cloth an enemy that does not exist. Despite their claims, the last administration did not “let in” twenty-one million criminals.

The trampling of the separation of powers by willfully ignoring court orders and decisions.

None of this is a surprise. They wrote the book and now they are following the plan.

Rosa Luxemburg wrote, 

“A country is first ruled by a class (wealthy), then a party (MAGA), then a committee within the party (Project 2025), then one person who swiftly eliminates the committee.” (Parenthetical quotes are mine.)

And before somebody thinks pointing out that Luxemburg was a revolutionary and a Marxist somehow detracts from her message, who better to have insights into the path to fascism?

Here’s another insight from Orczy,

“Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not,”…”

Something those who like to proclaim our sitting President as some masterful businessperson should keep in mind.

The French Revolution began in an earnest attempt to right the wrongs of a monarchy and the inherited title royalty. A noble cause that dissolved into the Reign of Terror.

They had their Committee of Public Safety, if we are not careful will may face the same.