Since Donald Trump entered the political world, misinformation and propaganda have become "truth." Facts no longer matter. Liars are now truthtellers, and the real truthtellers become the enemy under the rules of the right-wing extremists who have set up shop across social media. Their fear-mongering and hateful rhetoric has captured the psyche of the weak-minded and ill-informed, who share and spread this propaganda under the guise of free speech. The GOP ceased being a viable political party and became a fascist political movement.

In spite of the insurrection, the perpetuation of The Big Lie, the E. Jean Carroll judgement, the guilty verdicts on 34 felony counts, the indictments in the documents case and the insurrection case, the Republicans welcomed Donald Trump back with open arms for the 2024 campaign. They handed  their party over to a fascist criminal intent on dismantling American democracy in concert with the oligarchs who funded his campaign.

GOP legislators who do not support Trump, yet remain silent, insist that they are afraid of him. Are they afraid of a lame-duck president? What they are actually afraid of is losing their jobs; afraid that Trump will get more extreme candidates to primary them in 2026. They are much more concerned with getting reelected than they are of protecting the people, defending democracy, and upholding the Constitution.

Fighting fascism requires courage and moral clarity, two things that the GOP lack. They are rubber stamping all of Donald Trump's agenda with little pushback. We need a unified front to save American democracy. We need some GOP legislators with a spine to cross the aisle and actually carry out the oath they took to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Donald Trump is a domestic terrorist and an enemy of the state sitting in the White House. He has insulated himself with loyalists who will not stop him from carrying him out his worst plans.

We are in much more danger now than we were under Trump 1.0.

Trump incited an insurrection on January 6, 2021

Just before the January 6, 2021 insurrection, Donald Trump  whipped up his followers by stating that if they didn't "fight like hell" there would be no country left. They took his call to arms seriously and broke into the Capitol building to stop the peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden.

They did this by violently attacking the outmanned Capitol police with a variety of weapons, as you will see in these ProPublica videos.

Trump's first priority wasn't ending the Ukraine war, even though he promised to end it on day one. It wasn't lowering prices for the American people, even though he campaigned on that promise. He lied about being a dictator on the first day only. He's now dismantling democracy and installing a fascist dictatorship in America. However, he did keep one promise: He freed the violent insurrectionists who tried to overthrow our government on his very first day in office.

Nearly 1,600 convicted insurrectionists were returned to the streets on his first day in office. Many of those released also had prior criminal convictions, including for rape, domestic violence, and manslaughter.

Donald Trump has never once acknowledged the bravery of the police who defended the Capitol on that day. He has never mentioned those who lost their lives in defense of democracy. The only victim he speaks of is Ashlii Babbit, an insurrectionist who died on that day due to her own decision to riot even after being told to stand down. Had she lived, she would have been arrested and charged for her actions. Yet, the Trump administration has agreed to pay her family $5 million dollars to settle a wrongful death suit.

Not one of the police officers who died or were injured on that day received a penny, including the family of Brian Sicknick, who died the following day from the injuries he received.