If you haven’t already done so, I encourage you to read Heather Cox Richardson’s Aug. 25 Substack.
If you don’t already know it, what Richardson wrote about is that the United States has been taken over by a white supremacist idiotic sociopathic fascist and his gangster capitalist hateful pseudo-religious cult of bigots.
This is what we should be talking about.
Every day.
Everywhere.
Wendell Griffen
In pool halls, beauty salons and barber shops.
In parks and at family reunions and class reunions.
In churches, mosques, temples and prayer meetings.
On every talk show.
In every meeting.
In civic clubs, fraternal groups and veteran’s organizations.
We should be talking about how a white supremacist fascist regime is brazenly operating in real time in the nation that calls itself the “land of the free and the home of the brave,” while other elected officials, religious bigots and gangster capitalists are enabling it, cheering, consorting with it and falling over themselves to profit from it.
“We should be talking about how a white supremacist fascist regime is brazenly operating in real time.”
We should be talking to each other about how a white supremacist sociopath invaded and is occupying Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and how he openly plans to militarily invade and occupy Chicago, Baltimore, New York City, and other places where he doesn’t have political voting majorities and complicit politicians.
We should be talking about how that white supremacist sociopathic idiot and his morally incompetent cabinet are ordering members of the U.S. military and other federal agencies to violate their oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, including the plainly domestic enemy named Donald Trump.
We should be talking about the constitutional and moral duty every officer and enlisted member of the military, every civil servant, every elected official, every local, state, and federal official, and every public employee has to disobey unconstitutional orders by Donald Trump and his fascist lackeys.
We should be talking about how Trump’s behavior is not only fascist, racist, unconstitutional and cruel, but also maniacal.
We should be discussing the unmistakable lunacy of the U.S. Sociopathic Idiot in Chief.
We should be talking about resistance. Demonstrations. Peaceful confrontations. How to stand up and denounce what this administration is doing.
We should be reminding people that John Roberts led the Supreme Court to give Trump a blank check in 2024 when it made him absolutely immune from criminal prosecution.
We should be talking about how Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate should be caucusing to protect our democracy, are not doing so and what we intend to do about it.
We should be talking about how the House should be drafting articles of impeachment, aren’t doing so and what we intend to do about it.
“We should be talking about the unrighteous preachers and other pseudo-religious people who are cheering, counseling and courting Donald Trump.”
We should be talking about how Vice President JD Vance and cabinet secretaries should be initiating the process set out in the 25th Amendment to declare Donald Trump mentally disabled, aren’t doing so (because they are complicit in and enable Trump’s sociopathic idiocy and unconstitutional behavior), what the Congress should be doing about it and what we will do because of their feckless duplicity and complicity.
We should be talking about the members of the House and Senate and the neo-Confederate governors who are cooperating with MAGA fascism, white supremacy and bigotry by sending National Guard troops to places Trump wants them to intimidate local civilian elected officials and their populations.
We should be talking about how the Constitution of the United States is being openly violated, subverted and disregarded by Trump and his administration, and how Trump and his lackeys have threatened federal judges for saying so in numerous court rulings.
We should be talking about the unrighteous preachers and other pseudo-religious people who are cheering, counseling and courting Donald Trump for engaging in such lunacy, and about the cult of people who follow them.
We should be talking about this today, tomorrow and every other day until we free ourselves from this evil regime.
No other nation will free us. No other nation will come to our aid or defense.
It’s time for “we the people” to talk about this fascist tyranny and then get rid of it.
This is our moral and patriotic duty to one another, our national heritage and to our posterity.
Wendell Griffen serves as pastor of New Millennium Baptist Church in Little Rock, Ark., where he is a retired circuit court judge. He currently is running for election as Pulaski County judge.