Today is Wednesday, November 1, 2023. If you thought one term with the Orange menace was appalling, wait till after 2024 if this piece of garbage stunningly wins a second term. An eye-opening online article in Vanity Fair lays out what a second term with the Orange Hemorrhoid might look like and the details of what would characterize a second term are terrifying. These are laid out in Eric Lutz’s article entitled “Stephen Miller Has Big Plans for a Second Trump Term.” Democrats should take particular note of what is outlined in this blueprint for the annihilation of democracy if Donald Chump wins the presidency in 2024.

The person who is leading the effort to derail democracy is Chump diehard Stephen Miller, along with John McEntee, whose plan entails installing loyalist lawyers all throughout the federal bureaucracy in the event of Chump’s victory.

This plan has been reported in The New York Times that has recounted the former president’s associates have been plotting behind the scenes to install loyalist attorneys in a second Chump administration who would be more “committed to his ‘America First’ ideology.'” “Not only would his lawyers be conservative extremists, like the ones who filled the ranks of his first administration; they would, sources familiar with the planning told the Times, be more willing to do Trump’s personal bidding.”

The apparent effort, which would be led by Miller and McEntee, two of Chump’s most zealous henchmen, underscores the extraordinary risks to democracy Chump’s 2024 candidacy poses to the country. John Mitnick, a general counsel of the Homeland Security Department who was replaced by a Miller ally during Chump’s first administration, predicted to the Times, “No qualified attorneys with integrity will have any desire to serve as political appointees.” Thus a second Chump administration, Mitnick added, would be “predominantly staffed by opportunists who will rubber-stamp whatever Trump and his senior White House staff want to do.”

Despite the obvious threats to democracy that a second Chump administration would represent, it is Trump who inexplicably leads the GOP base of repugnican candidates. How is this even remotely so? This thug openly aspires to be an autocrat. Just listen to him during his campaign stops in various states, after he stops mumbling about total nonsense, as to what he intends to do in a second administration. Some of the things he’s mentioned are downright chilling. Like the quote from Maya Angelou from yesterday’s blog, we must believe Chump who he truly is from our first impression of him, which is that he’s a thug, nothing else. In some polls even, Chump is leading President Joe Biden. That’s fucking ridiculous.

Foreseeing a second term with Chump at the helm, a former Trump Pentagon official warned ex-Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor that the Orange thug could get his wish to demolish democracy if he had a White House run by the “fucking enablers.” As bad as the first four years were, a second term would surely be even worse. David Axelrod said, “Trump 2.0 would be the Delta variant of democracy. It would be a thousand times more virulent and harder to control.”

In the meantime, today was the third day of hearing witness testimony during Chump’s disqualification trial being held in Colorado where an expert witness for the group of challengers to Trump staying on the ballot argued strongly that the 14th Amendment clause that attorneys argue should disqualify former president Chump from Colorado’s 2024 ballot can apply to presidents. This event is reported on in an online article for The Hill by Nick Robertson entitled “14th Amendment applies to presidents, expert argues at Trump’s Colorado disqualification trial.”

Today lawyers called on a 14th Amendment expert in the hearing’s third day, Indiana University law professor Gerard Magliocca, to lay out exactly how to define “insurrection” and how it should apply to presidents.

The plaintiff’s lead attorney, Eric Olson, argued the Colorado case has four basic components: Trump took an oath of office of the United States, the Capitol attack was an insurrection (not a “tour” of the Capitol as some extremist repugnican thugs earlier claimed), Trump engaged in that insurrection, and Colorado’s Secretary of State can be ordered by the court to keep him off the state’s ballot because of it.

The expert, Magliocca, explained that the 14th Amendment’s third section was enacted after the Civil War as a way to keep Confederate-supporting politicians out of office unless they were given amnesty by Congress.

But he was clear that the section was not intended to not only fit the Civil War, and that it could also apply to future “insurrections.”

The expert for the plaintiffs defined an insurrection, using a number of historical legal citations, as “any public use of force or threat of force, by a group of people to hinder or prevent the execution of the law.”

The plaintiff’s attorneys are expected to argue that the January 6 attack on the Capitol fits that definition, and separately, that Chump’s actions on and before the riot fall under giving “aid or comfort” to those who participated in it.

In the case’s opening arguments delivered on Monday, the lawyers representing the Colorado Republican Party and Chump’s attorneys argued that the former insurrectionist was simply exercising his free speech rights to warn about election results he did not believe were legitimate. What a putrid steaming sack of garbage explanation here! Everyone knows this thug did more than just exercise his free speech rights in the entire affair. He tried to subvert the orderly transition of power on that day in January.

Another story coming out today was the sorry failed attempt to expel serial fabulist Rep. George Santos from Congress as a Republican-led resolution fell woefully short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass. Now we have to wait until the jerk’s term of office is up, which is in 2024 to vote the serial liar out of office. The final vote was 179 to 213.

Even five repugnican House members from New York asked the conference to expel Santos from the chamber, and this even failed to muster enough votes. How dispiriting; how very sad. These jerks in office would rather keep a member who has been charged for various crimes, including wire fraud and identity theft, and who has lied about himself so much that we don’t even know if “George Santos” is his real name, even. So as we all sorrowfully expected, these pieces of garbage failed to do the right thing in expelling a compromised member of Congress – all in the name of holding onto their tiny repugnican margin in the House. How disgusting! The five repugnican members issued a statement that characterizes the real issue at stake here, but their colleagues failed to go along with their more principled fellows. They said, “Indeed, we should let the American people know if a candidate for Congress lies about everything about himself to get their votes, and then that false identity becomes known by his admission or otherwise, that House Members will expel the fraudster and give voters a timely opportunity to have proper representation.” It seems that our elected officials do not do the right thing anymore and it’s just sickening. How these extremist, unprincipled people still get elected is beyond me.

Stay safe and be well.