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Trump issued the call just last Friday, September 22, on his social media network, Truth Social. Trump's words rip to shreds everything America stands for, like the Constitution and the rule of law. Brian Klass, an analyst for The Atlantic, summed it up: "Trump’s rhetoric is dangerous, not just because it is the exact sort that incites violence against public officials but also because it shows just how numb the country has grown toward threats more typical of broken, authoritarian regimes. The United States is not just careening toward a significant risk of political violence around the 2024 presidential election. It’s also mostly oblivious to where it’s headed."

But 5 days later, the Fox panel on the debate considered it too trivial to raise, and the 7 Republican candidates, as usual, turned a blind eye to Trump's incitement to violence--as they have all the other times.

Trump's Rivals Exercise in futility - NYTimes

Excerpts:

• The point is that Trump has zero respect for democracy and has aspirations for autocracy.
• The point is that he keeps scaling new pinnacles of unhinged.
• The point is that he needs to win the presidency so that he doesn’t have to worry about living out his days where he belongs: behind bars.

And perhaps the only shot that any of those seven candidates have to stop him and prevent the irreversible damage he’d do to the United States with four more years is to call a tyrant a tyrant, a liar a liar, an arsonist an arsonist.

None of them did.

Fact Checking December GOP Debate
-NYTimes

An eloquent, comprehensive examination of that question is found in the book  “American Psychosis: A Historical Evaluation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy,” by David Corn. Check out these reviews:

Amazon

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IndieDems Comment:

The Republican Party’s downward spiral hit high gear when it nominated for President an immoral reprobate caught bragging about sexually assaulting women. Who then proceeded to mock the handicapped, demean the military service of John McCain, be found guilty of sexual assault. Want to do all the above and get elected to office? Run on the Republican ticket.

Giuliani and Navarro know it now: The Trump reckoning has begun

(Excerpts)

• A pair of powerful rulings in civil cases against two top Trump advisers offers another illustration of how the court system can stand up against the sheer lawlessness of such behavior.
• The rulings against Trump advisers Rudy Giuliani and Peter Navarro amounted to: Stop this nonsense. It’s not nice to fool with federal judges.
• The ruling against Giuliani cited his repeated and flagrant failure to comply with his legal obligations to turn over relevant information to the other side.
• The judge in the Navarro case said Navarro couldn’t use the executive privilege claim in defending himself.
• Reckonings take time, but in a system governed by the rule of law, they eventually arrive.

IndieDems Comment:

Another rational, fact-based evisceration of Trump and his Republican henchmen for their despicable use of character assassination in their attempt to overthrow the legal results of the 2020 presidential election. By rallying behind Trump as their 2024 presidential nominee, Republicans are continuing their legacy of lawlessness and the gross immorality established by McCarthyism, Watergate, and Iran-Contra. The Republicans’ main contribution to America comes strictly from the dark side.