In the world of comics, Lex Luthor always gets away with his criminal activities. He can destroy half of Metropolis in his hate-filled bigoted quest to kill Superman and also rule the world, and even though everything can be traced directly to him, he still finds a way to get away with it. He has lawyers with manufactured “evidence” and “confessions” saying it was some previously-fired janitor who did it all before conveniently committing suicide. Then he smiles in front of the cameras and offers to rebuild the destroyed parts of Metropolis, which makes him even richer, and the people love him for it.
Sadly, the rich and powerful get away with pretty much everything in the real world, even murder. The same applies to powerful groups, like corporations and political parties.
For years I’ve heard how Narcissist Donald John Trump is “done” after some sort of scandal comes out. We saw this with the audio tape of him talking about how he “pounces” on women. People stupidly thought that it would be “the end” of the narcissist. But it wasn’t. Multiple affairs? A supposed “blackmail tape”? The creepy things he says about his own daughter? None of that stopped the narcissist or his cult followers. He still became president.
The threat of impeachment meant nothing to the narcissist or to his followers and enablers. Hell, he was impeached twice, including for an act of inciting insurrection, and it didn’t stop him. He got away with it and his cult followers and enablers were even more emboldened.
So now, with the narcissist out of power, we are hearing people talking about “the end” of the Trump Party, which still identify themselves as “Republicans” in the same way as pop stars identify themselves as “they/them”. We are hearing over and over again how the Trump Party is “committing suicide” and are “on the verge of civil war” between the narcissist’s followers and those enablers that still see themselves as the “old guard” of the party.
The narcissist is picking fights with anyone who does not march in lockstep with him, calling out anyone in his party who thinks that the January 6th insurrection was an act of domestic terrorism (it was), or believes that then-Vice President Mike Pence did not have the power to overturn the 2020 Election (he didn’t). And if they’re up for re-election, then the narcissist is backing anyone that will replace them that will tow his line.
So now we have people getting on cable news channels or getting on progressive talk radio or publishing columns in the newspapers proclaiming that the so-called “GOP” is either “dead” or “dying” or “killing themselves” or is “tearing itself apart from within” over the narcissist. They’re planning for a political wake that they believe is a certainty.
Don’t buy into it.
Don’t believe even for a moment that either the narcissist or his party are somehow “doomed” simply because of these ego-centered squabbles.
We’ve been here before almost a hundred years ago. Germany’s notorious “nationalistic” party had an ego-centered leader who was also plagued with scandals, including an alleged relationship with a relative who then killed herself. There were disagreements between the ego-centered leader and some of his enablers as well. And everyone believed then that it was “over” for both that leader and his party. It wasn’t. They buried the scandal and purged the contrarians. They were disgraced, dismissed, and even executed. And then they moved on to do even worse things after solidifying their power.
The same applies to the inheritors of that notorious party here in America.
Let’s get brutally honest here... nobody should be proclaiming the “demise” of the narcissist’s party before it has actually met its demise. Evil groups like that and their leaders and followers do not fold on their own. They don’t implode or call it quits. They have no concept of honor or dignity or morality. There is no “bottom” or “limit” that they recognize. They will do whatever it takes to get their way and get away with it.
Do you know what finally stopped that notorious nationalistic party in Germany? Tanks. Bombs. Soldiers from around the world crossing continents winning back every country they took, liberating every death camp they created, and then spending decades hunting down every surviving enabler, every officer, and holding them to account for what they did. It wasn’t editorials talking about the party committing “political suicide”, or media personalities saying that the party was “done with”. They didn’t wait for that party to collapse on its own, because it never did. They made sure that it ended.
Manuel Noriega ruled Panama in the 1980’s, and he did everything he could to stay in power, even after he was indicted here in America for his criminal operations. After he lost the election in 1989, people were saying that it was over for the dictator. His time was done. The people had spoken. He, though, had other plans. He staged a coup and had the incoming leaders arrested. It took American forces invading Panama and forcing Noriega to flee and finally surrender in 1990 to face justice. It took action, soldiers, not people making false proclamations, for Noriega’s reign of terror to end.
Think about Superman versus Lex Luthor. Sure, Luthor could escape justice a lot of times, but he couldn’t do it forever. It took persistence and action for that to happen. A hero with the strength to take on Luthor, prosecutors willing to bring him to trial, and a justice system willing to try him and see him convicted. It didn’t happen because a bunch of reporters and columnists wrote articles talking about his supposed eminent collapse.
Many of us would like to see the narcissist and the party he co-opted be brought down. It would be easy to think that they both could implode on their own, but they won’t. What it takes are voters to consciously show up on Election Day and vote against the narcissist and his party, like they did in 2020. It also takes prosecutors and a justice department with the courage and the strength to hold the narcissist and his party to whatever crimes they have committed. And they do not stop until the deed is done and the narcissist and his party are actually finished. Anything less than that is just idle thinking and daydreaming.
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