Trump: “This is the final battle”*

…Trump on Saturday cast both his indictments by prosecutors and his bid for the White House as part of a “final battle” with “corrupt” forces that he maintained are destroying the country.

The apocalyptic language came in Mr. Trump’s first public appearance…

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“This is the final battle. Either the Communists win and destroy America, or we destroy the Communists.”He railed against “globalists,” “warmongers” in government and “the sick political class that hates our country.”

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Trump also described the Justice Department as “a sick nest of people that needs to be cleaned out immediately,”

…an at-times menacing speech…

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…equated prosecutors with his political enemies and urged his followers to see his indictments as attacks on them.

… Trump has always viewed his political candidacy and mass following as his best defense against his legal troubles.

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The Columbus convention crowd that Mr. Trump addressed was beyond friendly: It was devotional. While this was ostensibly a convention for the Republican Party of Georgia, a casual observer might be forgiven for thinking it was the Trump Party of Georgia.
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Like several other state parties around the country, the Republican Party in Georgia has been taken over by the hard-right, ardently pro-Trump base.

[Kari] Lake [keynote speaker]…said Republican mistrust of the nation’s institutions runs deep. “We’ve learned that the F.B.I. is corrupt, the C.D.C., the F.D.A., the C.I.A.,” she said. “We’ve just learned a lot over the past few years.”

*Trump says what he means and means what he says. Remember when he first used "America First"? I thought (at first) that he was using Charles Lindbergh's infamous pro-Nazi slogan of the 1930's insouciantly. Not. Remember his Heil Hitler pledge salute that he called on his Scum to make at his rallies? Remember, "Be there, will be WILD!"? Hmm, what could he mean by that? Duh. Jan. 6 was "WILD!". So here, the language is not accidental. "Apocalyptic", yes; "menacing", yes. Calling for revolution? Yes! This is the first chorus of the lyrics of the original French version of The Internationale in literal English translation:

This is the final struggle.

 

This is the English translation of the Russian language version of The Internationale adopted after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917:

This is our final and decisive battle.

We have been warned.