The End Could Well Be Nigh! 11 November 2020

 At last, the nightmare is over; but we are not out of the woods yet. There is a real possibility that Trump could well install key loyalists in the defense department with the aim of either engaging in a preemptive strike on Iran — a logical target, which would plunge us into a never-ending war, and do so in a fit of rage; or embed deep moles to tap four years hence.  


Absent that, his refusal to acknowledge the electoral defeat serves a purpose. Largely egged by his children and the three senators, Mitch, Graham, and Cruz, Trump’s refusal helps Mitch to galvanize the base for the two Senate runoffs in Georgia, which if won by the Republicans would allow him to control the Senate and thus ensure a gridlock on Biden. 


The End Could Well Be Nigh! 11 November 2020


In the meantime, Trump is said to be preparing to establish Trump TV on a subscription basis to tap on the 70 million voters who supported him in this election as prospective subscribers. Charging perhaps five dollars a month, he would have a potentially lucrative market of 350 million dollars a month. His latest pronouncement that he intends to contest the 2024 elections that he says were stolen from him has some serious implications besides financial. Note that nearly 57% of whites voted for Trump, and his share of non-white voters increased from the 2016 elections. In other words, Trump demonstrated to his party and base that, all his other egregious conduct notwithstanding, he expanded the party into the non-white territory, particularly among the Cubans and Venezuelans in Florida. In addition, it is worthy of note that 55% of white women backed Trump in increasing numbers. 


This signifies two things, the Republican Party’s core base is solidly white and in fear of losing their racial identity. In addition, it is likely to continue to make inroads among non-whites tapping into both, branding Democrats as “socialists,” and fears of civil unrest threatening public order. In a sense, we stand poised to witness what I predicted, a possible slow and simmering civil unrest from a solid white voter base in Florida should he elect to head south on January 21. 


Should the Senate remain in Mitch’s hand, it is highly unlikely that Biden could legislate any meaningful reforms to put us on a firmly sound economic track. Though in a way that is not a bad thing; since, there is enough for Biden to do,  which he will via executive orders within the next two years. That is when the Republicans will have 25 Senate seats to defend. The Democrats have half as much to protect. Should the Democrats win the midterm elections, we may well be out of the woods, provided that the Dem’s ground game in Texas, Arizona, and Georgia increases its scope of voter participation. In short, the jury is still out. And we shall not know until 2022, whether we are out of the woods. In the meantime, we are entering our most perilous seventy-four days, in which the Republic could plunge into further chaos at the hands of a narcissistic Balrog. 


In short,  fear, we are kissing the fringes of a failed state, its lips race-infested with cancerous boils that will take perhaps a decade if not more to lance. This election was a dose of chemotherapy, which brought us a reprieve for two years during which we shall need to inject an electoral dose of trans-racial pluralism to heal the core of the Senate boils with non-Republican non-whites committed to preserving the Republic from race-baiting authoritarians!

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