By Jason Renard Walker

After briefly making a statement at one of Donald Trump’s rallies. Elon Musk made a grand exit by straightening his back, patting his chest and stretching his arm out, palm face down, with a Nazi salute. To leave no room for argument as to what he’d just done, Musk turned, faced the other way, then did it again.

Following a gunman firing shots at Trump during a rally, in which a bullet grazed his ear, the Secret Service ushered him past an American flag and allowed him to briefly stand underneath it and pose with his fist raised in the air and blood on his cheek, in an opportunistically staged photo op for the history books.

Those who’ve only associated the “power to the people” salute as originating from Black freedom fighters during the civil rights era of the 1960’s, may see this as a sign of disrespect to the Black liberation movement. But I believe Trump’s reasoning for adoring the fist-raise is beyond taunting. That’s because during the 1930’s and through Hitler’s regime, Nazi Germans often raised their fist in the air while showing support for the political candidate of their choice during elections. So, when Trump salutes his crowd with a raised fist, he’s actually covertly paying homage to Neo Nazism and his white supremacist brethren, while those he despises most clap, cheer and beg for an encore.

Harmless seeming acts like these are the more symbolic things Trump, and many in his cabinet are doing to casually show solidarity with and embed white supremacist ideology back into the now resisting fabrics of society. This is an attempt to turn back the clock and erase every concession and achievement minorities and women earned through physical and mental resistance of the once omnipresent white power structure called American democracy.

It is no coincidence that Trump broke tradition and held his last pre-election rally in Madison Square Garden, clad with appearances by a cornball comedian making racist jokes and former WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan, who was caught on a hot mic expressing racial animus towards Blacks. This was Trump’s most racist rally to date, which seem to be in solidarity with the 1939 rally held in this same arena by a pro-Nazi clan called the German – American Bund.

Trump has already done things specifically aimed at erasing the significant role minorities and women have played in their existence in American history. While attempting to replace it with pro authoritarian and white nationalist lies and propaganda that has held court for over 400 years. Essentially, we are witnessing a tyrant practice overhauling the 21st century through a subtle cultural revolution.

Examples include Trump banning the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One because they refuse to falsely report that the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America. Yet, an unauthorized Russian media outlet was allowed in during Trump and JD Vance’s grilling of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. So let’s not believe Trump’s administration’s claim that this outlet somehow snuck in.

With this ban, Trump is sending a message to the mainstream media that going against the grain of his whitewash campaign will get them replaced with any media willing to report his lies. Or this just shows how weak the Secret Service really is.

He has sought to undermine holidays and events such as Martin Luther King birthday, Mother’s Day and Black history month by deeming them unrecognizable in the U.S. He anointed himself head of the board of the Kennedy Center to insure that LGBTQ+ themed arts and anything he doesn’t like, aren’t performed there anymore. He has declared English as America’s national language.

Like Hitler, Trump understands that to make a country and ultimately a world, in his likeness, he has to erase, ban, or destroy every person, place and thing that doesn’t align in the direction he’s trying to whitewash and bend the country’s history and reality into.

During his entire campaign Trump called the incarcerated January 6 insurrectionists “hostages” and the day they stormed the Capitol, assaulted police officers and vandalized the building on his call, “a day of love.” He promised to pardon them all if he was elected. JD Vance on the other hand stated, “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”

On day 1 as president of the United States, Trump kept his promise and pardoned every January 6 insurrectionist, even though some admitted guilt, were caught on camera committing acts of violence and the main instigators of the seize: far right paramilitary groups “The Proud Boys” and “Oath Keepers” were unapologetic.

In an interview with right wing media hut Sean Hannity, Trump justified his decision on false accusations that it was a “very minor incident”, some of the actors had been incarcerated for too long, were treated like “nobody’s ever been treated” and were peacefully protesting because they knew the election was rigged.

Republicans who were asked about the pardons gave a variety of evasive answers. The most common reply was they didn’t know the facts or hadn’t seen the evidence, thus being unable to pass judgment. A few disagreed with Trump’s decision. House Speaker Mike Johnson gave a more hypocritical answer when he suggested “we’re not looking back, we’re looking forward.”    Three hours later, Johnson announced that they’d be investigating the January 6 investigation, under the notion the convictions were a miscarriage of justice. A prime example of looking back, not forward.

Many officials that were involved in Trump being charged in the January 6 insurrection and criminally convicted in other cases were fired because he won the election and was able to retaliate by weaponizing the rule of law against them.

The acting U.S. Attorney in D.C. at the time, Ed Martin, went on a rampage himself. He demoted at least seven top prosecutors that were, one way or the other, involved in charging, prosecuting and investigating the January 6 insurrectionists.

The demotions were nothing less than pure political retribution against top prosecutors for working on the January 6 cases and defying Trump’s effort to get away with foolishly disrupting the peaceful transfer of power. It also insured that if any of Trump’s followers committed any more criminal acts in his name, those demoted wouldn’t be involved and the top prosecutors who had jurisdiction to bring charges, would think twice before they did.

Now that Trump was able to win the election, have his pending January 6 criminal charges dropped because of this and pardon the insurrectionists under false pretenses of being victims, he has now created a path In American history that could falsely suggest Democrats rigged the election that was stolen from him and weaponized the Department of Justice (DOJ) against the American people for exercising their Constitutional right to peacefully protest.

These actions totally contradict Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi’s claim that their goal was to put a stop to the government weaponizing and politicizing the DOJ, even though they had no proof that Biden had been doing this. Instead of keeping their word, Trump’s administration are the ones who actually weaponized the DOJ by having them arrange to get all corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams dropped, as an alternative to a letter Adams’ lawyers sent Trump, asking for a pardon.

Trump’s former personal lawyer, Amil, who is now an official within the DOJ, sent Adams a copy of a letter he’d sent to prosecutors in New York. The letter simply asked the prosecutors to dismiss every charge against Adams without prejudice. Amil stated in the letter that the reason the DOJ was requesting to have the charges dismissed was because a criminal trial would prevent Adams from executing Trump’s deportation agenda in the city. His only problem was that he needed a prosecutor from the New York prosecutor’s office to violate their oath and sign the motion to dismiss, not due to case technicalities, but for political reasons.

Danielle Sassoon, who was the acting prosecutor in the case, stated “I will resign before I carry out these orders. Amil then went to the Public Integrity unit in D.C. to see if he could get two of the acting head officials there to sign the motion. Both refused to sign it and resigned in disgust of being asked to do such a thing. Before the prosecutor overseeing the case was asked to sign the motion he stated, ” No one has asked me yet but I’m not doing it either, I quit.” In all, around eight top prosecutors resigned instead of selling out to Trump.

During an appearance on the right-wing TV show Fox and Friends, Adams and border czar Tom Holman admitted that he and the Trump administration made an agreement with Adams to help implement Trump’s deportation agenda in New York City. And if he didn’t do as he agreed to do, Holman would be “up his butt” This explains why the DOJ requested to have the charges dismissed without prejudice. If Adams didn’t follow through, the charges could be refiled again, exposing the quid pro quo nature of the deal.

After everything became public, four of Adams’ top aides and deputy mayors announced their resignation because they saw it as Adams selling out to Trump for his own self-interest. Amil eventually found someone to add their signature with his on the motion and he told the remaining prosecutors they could either help Trump implement his agenda or resign too.

We aren’t witnessing the Republican party scramble to execute their duties in the best interest of the U.S. constitution and the American people, like the people thought they would. The objective has been to show their loyalty to Trump by executing his orders in the best interest of him and his agenda and using the media to propagate his greatness, even though his approval rating continues to drop.

His attempt to get a Democratic mayor’s corruption charges dismissed for political gain is just the starting point. Improbable attempts to rename a body of water, purchase Greenland, make Canada the 51st state, have his face sculpted on Mt Rushmore, turn Gaza into a Trump resort, privatize Amtrak and the U.S Post Office and hijack the Panama canal are just things an authoritarian government, in the making, do to establish control.

We are in an era of politics where a president of the United States has learned how to desensitize the opposition’s response to his lies, deceit, criminal conduct and authoritarian agenda only because the Democrats in power aren’t willing to take the gloves off and shift away from campaigning on the preservation of a status quo, the majority see as fraud.

We have taken a front row seat to watching the Republican party steer away from being conservative, to being a cult of followers that have lost their identity and allowed the charisma of a snake oil salesman to slither in and attempt to give them, the country they live in and every governmental agency under his control, a single identity.

A true dictator doesn’t expect to get everything he tries to take but will take everything the people under his rule allow him to get away with. Even he is smart enough to know that the real power lies within the people, not himself.

 Trump may have success avoiding legal retribution, stealing land and other countries minerals. One thing we must not let him and his cronies steal is our culture, heritage and worth in a country that was built off of the same lies and deceit they are using to control it.

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