TAT readers,
First and foremost, remember that it’s Friday. Remember to look forward to enjoying the weekend and catching your breath. Trump and the GOP are ever more exhausting daily, and we all need to ensure that we remain rested, resilient and clear-thinking in order to protect our republic from Trump’s 5th column coup. In many ways, this is what the Special Operations community would call IW/ Irregular Warfare. In the case of Trump and the MAGA GOP, this is IW in support of their coup attempt. My background in uniform as part of the Special Operations community means that I am well acquainted with the tactics and strategies of IW. Chaos is an IW tactic in support of an IW strategy to overthrowing a nation and/ or their system of governance.
“a form of warfare where states and non-state actors campaign to assure or coerce states or other groups through indirect, non-attributable, or asymmetric activities, either as the primary approach or in concert with conventional warfare.” - Defense Primer: What Is Irregular Warfare? - Congressional Research Service - November 29, 2024
Since this Friday is the first day of a family weekend, today’s article will be fairly short.
There is no need for me to recount all of the craziness of the past ten days. Anyone with a pulse is well aware of the disastrous, cruel, far-right racist and extremist approach, that Trump and GOP leaders are imposing all Americans… except of course the 1% and his favorite oligarchs. In other words, Trump is destroying our constitutional republic’s form of government, in order to replace it with The Four Horsemen of the MAGA Apocalypse, Autocracy, Oligarchy, White Christian Nationalism and Political Violence. Replacing our government with an authoritarian autocracy is just another step in his true goals, that Putin hinted at, right after our election, to create a new world order. It is my studied opinion that a handful of Trumpish world leaders are intent on carving up the globe much as a few Mafia Dons would carve up a city’s turf for control. This point will be the focus of an upcoming and deeply detailed TAT essay in the near future. First things first. Today we look at step one, what to do about this initial insane chaos that we are experiencing.
The point of chaos is much the same as when a pickpocket bumps into you on the street. It’s a distraction in order to lift your wallet, purse watch or anything else of value. In fact, all of today’s GOP culture wars, absurd as they are, contribute to this chaos. Hence, yesterday’s presser about the DC aviation disaster also included the laughable DEI comments from a babbling president. There are additional reasons for the culture wars that involve influence operations as well. These culture wars are also a means of increasing and sustaining the brainwashing of his base, primarily by FOX News, and in the Trump era, countless other media outlets employing the same conspiracy theories, lies and propaganda. This I have addressed in detail in a couple of other TAT essays, which are linked below.
The most succinct point that I need to make at this phase of our ongoing coup, is that we cannot allow ourselves to be fully distracted by the Trumpian, MAGA GOP BS. Of course, the culture wars must be fought as well, but we must multi-task, by also watching what Trump, his GOP leadership, his oligarchs and his global club of despots are also doing behind the distracting nonsense. Trump is simply dismembering the US government and for a variety of evil reasons. Like I noted earlier, I will delve into these things in detail in the near future. At the moment, let’s all watch how Trump will pick our pockets and attempt to solidify his control over our government by destroying the parts that do not serve his malignant narcissism.
Next, Trump’s weakness is our constitution and we must fully back any effort including lawsuits to use our constitutional rights to defeat Trump’s agenda. For example, his attempts to shutdown funding last week, was unconstitutional because only Congress controls budgets that have received legislative approval. Trump was forced to back down and he is as angry as he could possibly be. His malignant narcissism, includes strong traits of retribution against those who oppose him. For such personality disorders, retribution is oft times delivered in the cruelest way possible. The more we oppose him the more he is distracted by his vengeful obsessions. This buys us time, to put more barriers to his coup, in place. We are all in this together, right, left or otherwise. Every principled American must band together with their fellow citizens and fight back via a well-designed and backed, strategy. If not, say adios to our republic. This is not fear mongering either. It is pure common-sense.
Culture Wars and early extreme aggression by an adversary, are also tactics meant to intimidate. This helps the aggressor weaken their opposition, which in this case, is all honest and true American patriots observant of our constitution. So many companies oligarchs etc. have already cowered at the wannabe king’s feet by “kissing his ring.” They capitulated without a fight. The rest of us have no choice but to unify against Trump’s coup, because most corporations and oligarchs, will not help.
As I noted at the beginning, this is a very short essay but one that must be delivered now, before we enter another week of cruel chaos. Pushing back last week stopped him from defunding countless critical funded programs. Most supported marginalized communities and the helpless. Focusing such efforts against those least capable of resistance is just another cruel intimidation intended to project the message to the rest of us, “that he is capable of extreme cruelty.” Most of his intentions will not pass constitutional review, so we must unify and push back, daily and together.
That’s it for today’s piece but I wanted to get these thoughts out for the weekend so that readers can ponder and work towards unity, in defense of our republic. Please remember that what Trump is doing, is nothing new for despots. People with my background understand these tactics and know what to do about them. I bring you these professional insights because I know that we can defeat this monster. The more we learn, the sooner that we succeed.
My very best wishes for your weekend. Rest and laugh as much as possible. We all need our strength if we are to survive as the same constitutional republic, that we were before Trump’s dystopian vision.
Onward,
Paul