Joseph Franklin
3 min readJan 7, 2021

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There’s no real real choice but to prosecute Trump

As Trump continues tweeting his encouragement of sedition and violence, and I consider his possession of this horde’s mind, and I think of his joy when he eventually stands over the cinder, I seriously struggle with my disbelief in demons.

Consider the Christianity that propelled him to the throne. It is a cancerous, long-living growth, of a bastardization of Christ’s revolutionary teachings, that grew first in opposition to the Southern Black preachers leading the civil rights movement and festered until Trump jabbed it.

He has no compass, moral or legal. There’s nothing on his trail but his march with a mirror — follow me. There is no susceptibility to empathy there. The ego has hit critical mass; the brown shirts have been trapped in the history books, but made an in person visit to our capital today (1–6–2021).

There is an ego fueled only by power in its worst forms. There is a mob tied to his every impulse. There is a horde living in a reality taught by the Clan, the Birchers, Qanon, and the “news networks” Fox won’t even mimic. Trump is being whispered to by the likes of Stephen Miller, who takes Umberto Eco’s 14 common features of fascism as a challenge. You can always tell when Miller writes the speech. Miller’s America is Hitler’s attempt to paint like Rockwell.

There is no other but the American. There is nothing more at threat than the American dream, culture, ideals. Ideal means white, here. And it means the American Evangelical. Always under threat of the deep state — at times the deepest penetrating cabal of agents — or merely ANTIFA who represent weak opposition. There is no man stronger than Trump. He is sent by God, in certain contexts. He’ll save the white race, in other contexts. Sometimes both contexts at once. The health of the economy will determine how the moderates feel, obviously. Though the coup has them hurriedly looking up the stock market to see how the respond.

I don’t know what to do but vent here. But ideally there should be consequences for coups. We shouldn’t facilitate coups in other countries because it’s their business; and I thought when America elected Biden, stale bread that he was and is, to be POTUS, that that had been America handling our business. Aren’t there somethings you just don’t allow? If this coup attempt is brushed…

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Joseph Franklin

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