Nuclear Mussolini, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

The elephant in the room wants everyone to assume
There is bias political weaponization, doom and gloom
Cries of fascism, cries of communism, cries of persecution
Retribution, they blame the institutions (when not in power)

Hitler had his rivals arrested, Po Pot, Mao
Stalin and Castro too , and exactly how
Does this equate to America and it’s fate?
Fallacy of equivocation, their garbage in translation

It is true, those dictators did do what they did
But America has grand juries and defense lawyers instead.
Dictator’s rivals don’t get due process, they just end up dead
What the elephant in the room really does dread

Is accountability, and no amount of deniability
Can change what the former guy did
Nobody forced him to lie about the documents he hid
5th Avenue braggart will murder democracy with lead

Mussolini now lives in Mar A Lago, not the White House
If he had Nixon’s GOP, he would have been gone, long ago
The Grand Jury is picked by random lotto
Of this pool the President does not know

The elephant puts on a crafty muddied show
Sycophants work for peanuts, they won’t go
Say goodbye to our Republic if he wins
Palm Springs becomes Italy once again.
(end)

I should not have to explain what this poem is about knowing everyone knows what happened.

The Right is playing the Hitler fascist playbook by doing what Joseph Goebbels did in their propaganda “Accuse the other of what you are actually doing yourself.”

Since day one, even long before his first impeachment, during his first run, the former President undermined the trust in our institutions. He attacked his own intel, the media, and his political rivals in a very fascist way by scapegoating them and vilifying any question to his status and influence and power. This is the same tactic Hitler used. Blame everyone for your ills, falsely play victim, and then offer yourself up as the only solution.

Our jury system is being attacked now too, because he doesn’t care who he hurts or the fact that if we lose trust in our jury system, we really will be done as an open and free society.

His rights were not violated when he was first asked for the classified documents back. He lied to the National Archives when they first came to him. They did not have him arrested, they simply kept asking him for them and he kept denying it. Finally the National Archives had no choice but to report the failure to the FBI DOJ, the DOJ then had to report to local authorities and a Judge to issue a warrant to get the documents. It was not a raid, the compound was not torn up, nobody was handcuffed that day. They took what they thought was what Trump said all they had. That was a lie. He still kept documents even after he was asked if that was it. They eventually months later, came back with a second warrant and found more.

Now, in a REAL dictatorship, you would not be presented search papers, they would just break down the door, and ransack whatever they wanted, and there would be no “scope” listed in the warrant. “Scope” is a list of specific items or an area, and even can include specific areas of a building, and anything else not in the warrant cannot be used in a court of law. Trump’s rights were not violated in this entire process.

Now, more specifically, juries. Hitler and Stalin and all the other monsters I listed above, didn’t have juries. They would just have their political rivals executed, sometimes in public. There were no defense lawyers for those political rivals, there were no Grand Juries, there was no ability for a defense lawyer to partake in jury selection, those monsters just murdered their rivals. Trump had lawyers present at the Grand Jury, and he will also have defense lawyers in the full trial and his lawyers will be able to partake in jury selection.

So if Biden is such a dictator, why is Trump still alive? Why didn’t Biden have him killed right after Biden took the oath of office? No, Biden isn’t monster or a dictator. The MAGA sycophants want you to believe he is a dictator because that way they can keep power. But more to the point, if Trump can successfully sell this bullshit, that he is the victim, he gets to avoid accountability.

You are not the victim Trump.