PUBLIC OCCURRENCES

The book, out November 19, is by the same person who wrote the famous I Am Part of the Resistance op-ed article in the New York Times on September 5, 2018. That is so many warnings and resistances ago that I had forgotten about it. None of it has mattered, I doubt that this will be the tipping point. I stand by what I wrote last night on the header image: Putin will not permit Trump to be forced from the presidency in which Putin installed him by legal means of a democracy. Not by impeachment and conviction; not by electoral defeat. Trump will simply not leave. Not by the two term limit or anything else in the Constitution. Putin wants civil war in the U.S. "How many divisions does the Pope have?, his predecessor Stalin said to Churchill. "I have my Second Amendment people," Trump has said. Trump has already spoken about civil war, as he did before the Republican convention. The right to bear arms is the only thing Trump says he needs. It's the only part of the Constitution he will fulfill his oath "to preserve, protect and defend." Putin faced great unrest in Russia in 2011. He responded with a string of assassinations all over the world, including that of Boris Nemtsov, his most prominent critic, within sight of the Kremlin. Everyone knows Trump will win a civil war in the U.S., too. His supporters are criminals and have all the guns. I for one will not fight for this country. This country is not worth it.