Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers

by John W. Dean

you look closely at Bill Barr you will find a committed Republican partisan, a deep believer in maximum presidential power (for Republican presidents, anyway), and an unpretentious religious zealot.

Barr could accomplish his own goals of expanding presidential powers, assist the Senate Republicans in packing the federal judiciary with conservative judges, and use the Department of Justice to reshape religion in American.

“Whatever evil Trump does, whatever he damages or destroys, at least he enables Barr, Pence, and Pompeo to save America from a far worse fate. If you are convinced we are living in the End Times, then anything the president does can be forgiven.”44

Donald Trump has managed to remove all checks on his behavior from his advisers. They all appear afraid of him.

We do not, however, anticipate the Rapture while Trump is president, but if he remains in the White House for a second term it will be pure hell.

Trump can literally do most anything without GOP criticism. Yet these people were apoplectic when (seriously!) accusing President Barack Obama of defiling his high office for wearing a tan suit and later for occasionally tossing a football in the Oval Office. That’s right: wearing a khaki-colored suit.

had lost all persons of character from his Cabinet and White House staff and replaced them with “royal favorites” whose main task was not to keep him from doing unlawful things, but to lie for him when he did.