January 6, 2021 The Trumpian Putsch
“I would know by what power I am called hither “
Charles I at his trial January 1649
You attacked the sovereignty of the people by suspending the assemblies of its representatives and by driving them by violence from the place of their sessions. . .
Indictment of Louis XVI December 1792
Donald J. Trump thinks of himself or rather imagines himself as King of the United States. He has talked of his powers to his followers as he has honed them into a personal army that was loyal to him alone. It was on January 6th 2021 when the co-equal branch of government, the US Legislative branch was in session to count and certify the electoral votes certified and submitted by each of 50 states that Trump called upon that army to march upon the legislative branch in an effort to disrupt, stop and overturn his lost election to Joe Biden. The subsequent violence invaded the capital building breaking doors and windows to gain illegal access and sending the legislature including the Vice President running under the cover of guns and gas masks. The Trumpian Army retired from the Capital to return to their homes having succeeded for a few hours in the end in keeping their King without a certified electoral loss however, five people lost their lives from the violence.
Trump and his cohorts plotted well their physical attack by the Executive Branch followers against the Legislature Branch. Trump for weeks sent out messages on Twitter for the army to assemble. He stoked lie after lie about a stolen election even though he failed in court case after court case to present any evidence. It was his word alone that carried his Trumpian army into battle with Congress. Trump had a booth set up in front of the White House as a gathering place where he could speak to them and send them marching on the Capital not unlike Hitler’s march from the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in the Munich Putsch.
Trump and his supporters, Rudy Giuliani, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Trump’s own son Donald Trump Jr. gave speeches of defiance and fighting the legislature. They used words like ‘trial by Combat’, ‘we will not quit fighting’ and ‘fight to the end’ to bless their followers into a patriotic fervor and saying only way to save their freedom and their country was to stop the Legislature in its efforts to certify the electors. They demonized the duly elected President-elect and Vice President-elect for months prior and used their powers to voice cries of being mistreated and lied to their followers about evidence they had obtained. They spent speeches in Georgia employing their last desperate hope would be for Vice President Pence to use powers he did not have to declare the States’ election documents false and anoint Trump as the true president.
Then Trump himself directed to crowd to march upon the Capital. He assured their safety as he lied to the crowd saying he would be marching with them. Then unlike Mussolini and his march on Rome, Trump got in his armored limousine and headed the opposite direction back to the safety of the White House under armed security. He would watch events of his attack on the legislature unfold on television in safety as if he had nothing to do with it.
The result was a crowd whipped into frenzy believing they were under the protection of the President of the United States along their side. They were ready for a fight thinking they were patriots. Even called as such by the President’s Daughter Ivanka on her Twitter note as they began to storm the Capital looking to stop the Legislature from doing its duty under the law. Chants of ‘find (Vice President) Pence’ rang from the crowd as they broke into the Capital through smashed windows and doors.
So this is not a news story of the event it is a Blog post but the scene on this Putsch set out by Trump in his loss to Biden. It failed as Hitler’s but without the force found in Munich in 1923. Yet, the danger of the event is no less serious both in the reality that it happened and the political danger to the Democratic Republic of the United States. Trump has set the scene for years in exile and for him to build on his struggle against the unjust secret powers that removed him from office after one 4 year term. He as already called for his entire voting base of 72 million to look in the future and not give up hope on the struggle to save their democracy. Twitter removed his account calling that a call to arms.
Left alone for the next four years Trump will write his struggles in rants and posts. He will wield enormous political power as he claims he was wrongly removed from office. He has already begun to set the seed for his return re-election and for the end of the 22nd Amendment term limits on a President.
This danger is why Trump must be treated as Louis XVI or James I in a political sense, not the physical. He must be removed and banned not just from Twitter but from holding federal office ever again.
The Legislature cannot fight over it’s petty political scramble for any political power being left by the lost election by Trump. He is not going to anoint/approve a successor as long as he can claim the throne. That is not in his nature as his jailed personal lawyer Cohen explained to Congress a year ago. Despite the efforts of Mr. Hawley to usurp the Trump power, he cannot and now has blood on his hands for enabling the Putsch event. Hawley will become a pawn in Trump’s return by remaining a loyal officer in his guard of the patriotic army.
The Legislative Branch founded this Country in the 1700’s. Those in it participated in the writing revision and approval of the Constitution. Let’s pray that the Legislative Branch of the 2000’s has not lost sight of the true sense of Freedom and Democracy. Those founding members of the Legislative Branch formed the Presidency out of the need for a fluid Government. They fought hard to put in protections against a fraudulent demagogue who fools the common man. So now is the time for men to put Democracy and Country above party. The Legislature must protect our Democracy from these demagogues. The revolution is not in the streets but in the Congress.
From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend
George Washington 1786
ABSOLUTA LIBERTAS 