EAST GREENWICH, Rhode Island

At long last, a critical mass of the American people—including our dimmest politicians and a growing number of regular droolers—recognize that for the past decade the country has suffered the hypocritical whims of a man who is, at best, a vacuous vulgarian. At worst, a man whose every accusation against others is a confession of his own vile behavior and criminal conduct.

At long last indeed, we recognize Donald John Trump as an “enemy of the people,” as he and his fellow fascists are wont to say. An enemy who must be stripped of false power; finally we feel our own power and responsibility to halt a lawless regime. To that end, we Americans will spend the next two years, thereabouts, making good on solemn promises made to ourselves with the nation’s founding documents, published in the latter years of the 18^th Century—

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a
more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic
Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote
the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty
to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the United States of America.
…And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm
reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we
mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes
and our sacred Honor.

Per our civic duty, initial steps to be taken are suggested by Michael Fanone, the former Metropolitan Police Department officer nearly beaten to death in January 2021 by Donald Trump’s armed Stoßtruppen, inspired to insurrection as nearly three thousands of their thug ranks lay siege to the Capitol building in January 2021.

In a recent television news program appearance, Mr. Fanone forecast what is sure to follow once the Trump presidency collapses with the defeat of his Republican Party flunkies lose control of Congress to the opposition Democratic Party in November of next year, thus losing control of Congress to the opposition Democratic Party —

• Impeachment of Donald Trump in the House of Representatives on charges of high crimes and misdemeanors;

• Conviction of Donald Trump in the Senate;

• Removal of Donald Trump from the White House.

…On the point of removal, I would prefer Mr. Trump put up a struggle that would summon a pair of beefy marshals to frog march him out from the Oval Office and into the onrushing traffic of Pennsylvania Avenue. (Alas, I understate my contempt horribly.)

Prospects of cleaning house at the White House via authority vested in the two chambers of Congress look good—and brighter by the day as the president’s approval rating plummets, in tandem with anger over the violent cruelty of his immigration diktats and impatience with economic doldrums. Something must give to relieve the political pressure on legislators by a population of 342.9 million Americans whose moods range from irritation to blood-bursting outrage.

According to a consensus of trustworthy U.S. opinion polls and London betting parlors, Democrats in the 435-member House are poised to send their Republican colleagues packing after the November 2026 elections; a partisan switch of merely three seats will do the job. On the 100-member Senate side, Democrats must flip four seats.

Onward to impeachment and conviction.

As for removal, few will regret Mr. Trump’s forced transfer from the White House to his Palace of Versailles knockoff—the cheesy Mar-a-Lago mansion along the so-called “Billionaires’ Boulevard” of Palm Beach, Florida.

Clearly, a fundamental political restructuring advances. Congressman Al Green of Texas has announced his intention to file formal articles of impeachment in the House in the days prior to Christmas. Already, Congresswoman Shri Thanedar of Michigan has initiated House resolution number 353, suggesting seven impeachment counts—

I. OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, violation of due process, and breach of the duty to faithfully execute laws, viz. directing subordinates to obstruct the administration of justice, violating oaths by making false representations to courts, evading and defying binding court orders; unlawfully removing persons (e.g., to El Salvador), and conducting „enforced disappearances“ without due process.

II. USURPATION OF THE APPROPRIATIONS POWER by unlawfully directing the elimination of the United States Agency for International Development, impounding or unlawfully blocking appropriated funds to federal agencies;

 III. ABUSE OF TRADE POWERS by imposing economically damaging tariffs without Congressional approval and threatening military invasion against sovereign nations, and using trade powers to subvert foreign policy goals set by Congress.

IV. VIOLATION OF FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS under the Constitution, viz. retaliatory actions against journalists and attorneys who criticize the president;

V. CREATION OF AN UNLAWFUL OFFICE, viz. the “Department of Government Efficiency,” empowering the world’s richest man (Elon Musk) to unilaterally violate the Constitution;

VI. BRIBERY & CORRUPTION, viz. dismissing criminal cases  in an alleged unethical quid pro quo for political cooperation, soliciting foreign emoluments, and extortionate settlements for personal or political gain;

VII. TYRANNICAL OVERREACH, viz. seeking to consolidate unchecked power, erode civil liberties, and defying constitutional limits on presidential authority, which the resolution claims threatens the rule of law and American democracy.

Likewise advancing is a refreshing social restructuring unseen since the days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) and New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (1882-1947)—progressives elected, respectively reëlected thrice and twice, and beloved to this day.  

And now comes Zohran Mamdani, customarily tagged by sclerotic corporate media as the “improbable” mayor-elect of New York City.

Mr. Mamdani, the 34-year-old Uganda-born son of Indian parentage, describes his political philosophy as proudly Democratic socialist—that second word guaranteed to scare the bejeezus out of Americans trained since childhood to be the favorite part of Satan’s vocabulary. This is what the immigrant Mamdani envisioned on the night of November 4 as he claimed overwhelming victory:

“A life of dignity should not be reserved for a fortunate few. It should be one that city government guarantees for each and every New Yorker.”

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Then, of course, there is the unfinished matter of child rapist/sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his vile friends, chief among them the sitting president of the United States.

The so-called “Epstein files”—investigative reports that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has heretofore hidden from public view on orders from Donald Trump—contain, among other evidence useful in criminal prosecutions, the names and erotic proclivities and activities of the late Mr. Epstein’s patrons of his Manhattan sex pad in New York and passengers aboard the “Lolita Express,” his private jet for transport to his privately-owned “Orgy Island” in the Caribbean.

In one of many courtroom losses suffered of late by Mr. Trump, the files are to be released publicly on December 19—unless, that is, Mr. Trump’s lackey at the DOJ further withholds evidence in the cause of ensuring the integrity of a newly trumped-up (you should pardon the expression) investigation touching, in part, on the squalorous affairs of the president’s dead pal, Jeffrey Epstein.

On the night of August 10, 2019, Mr. Epstein was alone in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial in federal court for alleged sex trafficking abetted by wealthy individuals. That night, jailers somehow skipped routine thirty-minute checks on him over three hours, although they falsified records to show that security procedures were performed. At some point during those three hours, investigators at Donald Trump’s Department of Justice declared that inmate Epstein hanged himself—and that the video recording system had somehow—oopsy!—gone bust.

The remains of Jeffrey Epstein were—surprise!—whisked away from his cell before photographs of the body, as found, could be made.

Lawyers for the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, along with the pathologist they hired, disagreed with the official autopsy. They said the supposed suicide by hanging was more consistent with homicidal strangulation.

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Since he was first elevated from grifter to president in 2016, then again last year after an all too brief four-year respite in between, we Americans—and much of the world, for that matter—have endured with the stinking pile of rot that is the body and soul of Donald John Trump. Half the governing duopoly of our country—namely, the Republican Party—serves as a Greek chorus for the Church of Trump. The other half—namely, the Democrats—have been either compliant with or out-maneuvered by the reeking Reverend Trump.  

Luckily, we have mockery and history on our side.

Twice this year, we turned out for massive, coast-to-coast “No Kings Day” protests. The June event drew an estimated five million nationwide, protestors who turned out in major cities and rural villages alike; the October repeat drew seven million.

In both, I marched down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue with a protest sign that mocked Donald Trump (see photo at the top of this essay). I hope as well that the sentiment simply expressed, by me and millions of others, rattled America’s most notorious egomaniac.

Mass protests have helped bring about the president’s plunging job approval ratings. Mockery has its place. As the documentary filmmaker and Trump critic Michael Moore counsels, it is important that we become a “nation of comedians,” laughing at the absurdity of Donald Trump.

The efforts are working in favor of dumping Trump.

According to a November survey by the estimable and largely accurate Gallup polling organization, only thirty-six percent of American voters now approve of Mr. Trump’s job performance—a four point drop from October. Congress seems to have discovered its cojones. Those among us who revere the late civil rights crusader Martin Luther King Jr. may be heard reminding one another of his signature teaching on the subject of history: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

On topic, too, is the legendary political consultant James Carville, who writes in the New York Times: “If you’re a student of history, the French Revolution is in the American wind…Le peuple se lève.”

Thomas Adcock, New York
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