Trump Cries Havoc. Will the Dogs of War Slip Their Leash?

As previously predicted in this space, and indeed as was easily foreseeable, the prospect of imminent indictment has moved Maximum Mountebank Trump to call on his supporters to riot and perhaps assassinate the prosecutor, albeit in “coded,” legally non-actionable language, or so he believes. Then, as is his wont, he went golfing, leaving the marks to shed blood for him. Will they?

To invoke once again the immortal Yogi Berra, prediction is hard, especially about the future. So we would be fools to do more than make guarded speculations. But I have two hunches that I think are reasonably safe. One is that the atmosphere in America is far less combustible than it was in the two months following the November 2020 presidential election, leading up to the January 6 MAGA putsch at the U.S. Capitol. Large majorities of Republicans are still telling pollsters they believe the Trump Big Lie that his reelection was “stolen,” but how many of them are willing to take up arms for this laughable yet insanely dangerous cause? Fewer, at least, than on January 6, 2021, and here it must be admitted that the fitful and inadequate prosecutions of the putsch’s foot soldiers have had their effect in dissuading countless others. Then, too, the January 6 Select Committee hearings in the previous Congress did incalculable if difficult to gauge damage to the Maximum Mountebank. Trump voters may be even more reluctant than victims of an ordinary con to admit that they’ve been had, but many must have quietly reached that conclusion.

But Trump’s real audience in his command to “TAKE BACK OUR NATION” is twofold: the diehards in the fascist paramilitaries, the “Proud Boys” etc. on the one hand, and Republican elected officials on the other. Quisling Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has already vowed to “investigate” the prosecutor, and some white supremacist terrorists will undoubtedly answer the call to arms. But the federal and state authorities are forewarned this time, and we can only hope they have taken the necessary precautions. As it stands at this moment, it seems likelier that in this round, the terrorists in the Congress will do more damage to the nation than the ones outside of it.

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