Frank's Musings

Many of us are shocked that even Trump thinks that it’s a winning campaign argument that he would weaponize the DOJ to get even with his opponents if he were to be returned to the Presidency. Perhaps that is only his strategy for competing in the Republican Primary and that he would change his tune in the general election.

Unfortunately, if Democratic voters return to the same blasé attitude that they displayed in 2016, we run the risk of a second presidential term of chaos. Moreover, that risk entails destructive authoritarian rule. It’s happened before—Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Peronist Argentina, and others.

It’s not enough for Biden to celebrate in a Veterans’ Day speech that we are the only country founded on an idea; that ephemeral objective can easily be replaced by the simplistic libertarian entrustment of the country’s affairs to the hands of a showman like Trump.  The danger of a retributionist government administration must be made clear in ways that will grab the attention of the MAGA crowd simultaneously with stimulative ways to energize the liberal democratic crowd (Republican and Democratic, alike).

I’m afraid that the commitment of Americans to the ideals of the Founders of the republic has been corrupted by easy living, partisan commercial news organizations, and unedited social media.  Sure, there are very important issues of racial and cultural discrimination that we struggle to resolve as well.  However, none of these and other societal shortcomings will ever be adequately addressed by abdicating government control to careless management.