The Republic of Trumpestan

FOTP Monday

I really have to stop thinking about Nazis.

Some weeks are easier than others.

There is also this Martin Luther King, Jr. quote that keeps hanging around.

“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

King’s birthday was celebrated last Monday, the same day Trump was being inaugurated as president . . . for the second time.

Your (joke, tears, outrage, sense of irony) here.

King liked to quote Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle, who said, “No lie can live forever.”

But sometimes it just needs another term in office.

Speaking of, we are now a week in to the latest Trump Administration and things are . . . yeah, they are, aren’t they? Cruel, vindictive, fascistic, petty, foreboding — but, as I’m sure his supporters would remind us, he is a man who keeps his word.

And that’s the most important thing.

“We love this guy,” Trump said of Hannity. “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’”

Wanna bet?

So what will historians say about all this? What will we ultimately learn from Donald Trump, Trumpism, and those who adored him?

Like Hitler, like Nazism, simply this: You can get away with it.

Welcome to the Republic of Trumpestan.