One and Only Observer

What are you getting when you vote for Trump?

1) Stephen Miller, Trump’s xenophobic senior advisor and speechwriter who is responsible for family separation at the border and the “poisoning the blood” and “enemy within” comments Trump makes at his rallies.

2) Steve Bannon, nihilist former Trump administration chief strategist responsible for phrases like, “flood the zone with shit” who is daily pounding a revolution propaganda drum promoting the destruction of “the administrative state,” and encouraging civil war.

3) Roger Stone, Trump’s longtime anarchist advisor and co-architect of “The Big Lie,” where Trump, to this day, denies losing a presidential election after having whipped his followers into a frenzy culminating in the January 6^th, 2021 attack on the US capital.

4) Michael Flynn, QAnon conspiracy theorist, foreign agent for Turkey, Russian collaborator, and disgraced former national security advisor who urged Trump to suspend the US Constitution.

These are only four of the many who have glommed onto Trump like ticks. A distressingly large number of similarly “like-minded” MAGA devotees are openly committing to tearing down our country’s fundamental institutions.

By voting for Trump you’ll also get dozens of federal judge appointments, as well as two younger Supreme Court justices to replace the soon-to-retire Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, both Christian Nationalist radical justices who were instrumental in taking away women’s bodily autonomy, who declared that a president is above the law, and who proclaimed that judges know more than environmental, pharmaceutical, geopolitical, and other experts. This younger, more extreme, far-right, 6-3 skewed court will make final decisions on cases brought by radical-right advocates that will affect us all, on matters like global warming, assault weapons, voting rights, and social justice.

Trump’s intentions are awful. He’s an elitist who despises most of US (in the US). He’s lazy and uninterested in details, and he’ll make impulsive decisions on things affecting so many of us, both today and long into the future. Trump is a natural-born divider. When we need a leader to unite us, his first and only impulse is to divide us, to goad us into squabbling and fighting one another. That’s what you’ll get by voting for Trump. But Trump’s not the issue here.

You’ll get Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation plan for a second Trump administration with a lot of bad things in it. The biggest bad thing is the plan for replacing tens of thousands of civil servant federal employees who administer the EPA, the IRS, the Justice Department, FEMA, and all of the other national agencies with Trump loyalists devoted to dismantling these departments and weaponizing them against political enemies.

What WON’T you get by voting for Trump?

A leader committed to the common good. Decency. Honesty. Civility. Responsibility. Faithfulness to our friends and allies. The rule of law. Integrity. People of principle in the cabinet administration who will resist Trump’s illegal and immoral impulses—those people are all gone.