Just another Paul Revere Moment…

The Less Than Zero-Sum Presidency

Nothing New Here, Just Another Paul Revere Moment

The sheer, brazen cheating on a national level is astounding. 

But it’s not surprising.

As state legislatures, governors, and even the Supreme Court pile up the stones that build the true “Wall” that Trump has been looking to erect – the one that redistricts voting into a walled garden that favors only his own fortune – Americans are being marginalized more so than ever. 

It’s happened in Texas. It’s happened in North Carolina. It’s happened in Tennessee. It’s happened in Ohio. It’s happened in the genuflecting Supreme Court of the United States. 

They’re instituting paperwork rules that will make it nearly impossible for certain people to vote, despite their Constitutional right to do so.

They’re not only stacking the deck, they’re rubbing our noses in it. They don’t even try to hide their complicity.

They’re railroading the election because it’s the only thing that they have left.

So please stop publicizing the upcoming July 4th holiday as a celebration of America’s 250th Birthday. It’s a memorial. It never made it past its 248th.

The Dream of the Idyllic Land died on November 5th, 2024.

Our “better angels” are dead and buried. Any survivors are being redistricted into oblivion. 

In my initial essay presaging this graveside remembrance (The Zero-Sum Presidency), I looked at the history of the Would-Be Emperor as someone who ascribed to no ideology other than to himself. It was a warning that was never heeded, from an observer who’d seen the carnage of the Trump brand up close. For those outside the New York Metropolitan area, Trump was taken at his word. Those of us who’d seen his behaviors from inside the petri dish knew better. We understood the con. 

He sold the rest of America on what he wanted them to believe. And now we’re here in the Epstein Era, many of us shellshocked that a man of such moral emptiness is not only free to behave any way he sees fit, but is still supported by hand-picked, hoodwinked, complicit supplicants. The lies are regurgitated as truths, truth dismissed as lies, without fear of repercussions. 

Moral turpitude has a fresh army of standard bearers, and they all bow down to the man who literally erected a golden statue in his “honor”. 

The assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania should’ve been the final set piece of the staged production. Anyone who’d seen footage from actual attempts upon a President’s life knows that the Secret Service pulls him down, under cover of their own bodies, if necessary, to shield him from any possible immediate danger. Instead, he was “allowed” to rise up, fist held high, against the backdrop of the American flag.

A perfect visual, now immortalized in gold.

Every shred of this man’s existence is a con.

The lasting shame is that America didn’t survive to do anything about it.

Unless…there’s still a heartbeat.

Those surviving “better angels” can regroup beyond those hastily-built, desperate straw walls.

Gas prices, grocery prices, shipping prices, all exacerbated by tariffs and broken promises of “America First” and “no wars” are ammunition in our fight against this Rebirth of Tyranny.

The MAGA base was erected with pocketbook politics.Now the party built that is subverting the system to remove the goalposts.

We can’t let the effigy of a man who once bragged that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any voters bully the system to cover the rest of the White House in gold.

You’d think that the Imperial Ballroom would raise an alarm in rural America. Instead, it proved that these red-hat wearing believers would’ve ignored Paul Revere and pilloried Betsy Ross. They’ve proven themselves loyal to the crown. Any crown.

The midterm elections are our last gasp for resurrection. 

It’s time to vote as if our past depends upon it.

Because it does. 

It’s the only way our Constitution survives. It’s the only way that our Declaration of Independence is still real. It’s the only way “We, the People…” doesn’t become lost to our own self-immolating history.

Vote to restore a New Hope for America.