The American Mao: Donald Trump led the Republican Party in a cultural revolution

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There is only one truth: the truth of the party. And the party is Donald Trump.

That’s what it came down to, people. The Republican Party has been effectively transformed into a doppelgänger of the Communist Party of China, with Chairman Mao Zedong’s own version at its head-and the first thing on the Party’s agenda is a purge.

It started immediately after Trump lost the election in November. Who came out? Anyone who refused to help facilitate the Big Lie was pushed by the Republican Supreme Leader. Brad Raffensberger, the Republican secretary of state in Georgia, rejected Trump’s plea to “seek” 11,000-plus votes so he could flip the election in that state. Out. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, another Republican who didn’t sign Big Lie with enough enthusiasm to make Maximum Leader: Out happy. Trump tweeted on Dec. 30 (when he still had a Twitter account), “@BrianKempGA should resign from office. He’s an obstructionist who doesn’t want to admit we won in Georgia, BIG!”

CNN described Trump’s cleanup campaign this way: “Trump has taken his involvement in the 2022 Republican primary to a new level as he works to permanently shape the GOP into his image. To remove potential GOP threats. to his endorsed candidates and encouraged others to run against his enemies. “

The Maximum Leader endorses candidates running against any Republican who votes to impeach him, most prominent Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who led the House Select Committee investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was relieved of his leadership position in the Republican House Caucus and disbanded by the Wyoming Republican Party.

Trump has moved around the country, endorsing people he considers loyalists even if they are carrying baggage, as he endorsed former NFL star Herschel Walker in the Senate race in Georgia next that year, even Walker was accused during the divorce of “physically abusive and overly threatening behavior,” including threatening his ex-wife with a pistol and knife. In the race for the open seat in the Pennsylvania Senate, Trump endorsed Sean Parnell despite similar allegations in a divorce filing that Parnell was physically abusive to his wife and children. (Parnell recently suspended his campaign after a judge awarded his ex-wife primary physical custody and sole legal custody of their children.)

Back in Georgia, the Maximum Leader also endorsed former Sen. David Perdue who ran against Kemp in the Republican primary for governor. Perdue lost his race for re -election to the Senate to Democrat Jon Ossoff in a runoff in January.

In Alabama, Trump is said to consider supporting a challenger to Republican Gov. To Ivey, in retaliation for his decision to reject his request to hold a campaign rally in 2020 at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. He also supports Rep. Mo Brooks in his campaign for the open seat in the Senate in Alabama. Brooks became a staunch Trump supporter and a Big Lie super-spreader, and showed up with Maximum Leader at his Jan. 6 rally in Ellipse, where he helped disrupt the crowd before the Capitol attack. .

Possibly the best thing that happened to Fox News was the permanent suspension of Twitter on Trump’s account two days after the attack on the Capitol. Since Maximum Leader could no longer directly address his followers, he became dependent on Fox as his chief propaganda arm.

This happened at the right time, because after Fox News became the first network to announce that Biden had won the Arizona state election in November, many Fox viewers were angry that they almost immediately fled even more. right outlets such as Newsmax and the OAN network. On December 8, 2020, Newsmax got a rating win against Fox News for the first time, when Newsmax’s “Greg Kelly Reports” beat Fox’s “The Story with Martha MacCallum” in the 7 pm news slot. As of March of this year, a public opinion poll by Fabrizio, Lee & Associates showed that Fox had lost viewers to Newsmax and OAN, although the network remained ahead of both right -wing rivals in overall ratings.

Frightened by the possibility of losing Trump’s base, Fox News threw itself into the arms of the Maximum Leader and released its dogs, encouraging the star’s hosts on the night to be todo-todo in promoting Trump’s Big Lie the “real” winner of the 2020 election. Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham brought their shows right than usual. Carlson produced a special called “Patriot Purge,” which aired in early November on the network’s new streaming service, Fox Nation. The three-part series tries to make the case for the fully integrated premise that the attack on the Capitol was not carried out by Trump supporters but a “false flag” operation run by the FBI, antifa and others. more fuzzy forces.

Recently, there was a leak of text messages sent to Mark Meadows by Fox stars Hannity, Ingraham and “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade, asking the then White House chief of staff to stop Trump to insurrection and send his followers home. After that news made headlines, Fox hosts reacted as if they had been bitten by a rabid hedgehog, denying that their texts said what they said and pledging lifelong loyalty to Maximum Leader.

Two celebrities in the Fox News world resigned recently in protest of Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” series: Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes. Last Sunday, Fox host Chris Wallace announced he was leaving the network for CNN’s new streaming service, CNN+. But none of the three actually left voluntarily. They were purged. They are not Trumpian enough. In a column on Wednesday, Goldberg said he was leaving because he could not accept the lies and hypocrisy, describing the culture within the network where Fox hosts would “say something in my face or in my presence and another thing when cameras and microphones are flipped. ” Everyone at Fox News knows what happened on Jan. 6, Goldberg indicated. Their lies “over the next 11 months” drove him away.

This is what a cultural revolution looks like. First is the cleansing of all opponents or even doubters to the Supreme Leader, followed by the cleansing of the Party in his name. In China, the Cultural Revolution lasted from 1966 until Mao Zedong’s death in 1976 and aimed to eliminate Mao’s rivals in the Party, government, schools and workplaces. Mao insisted that those disloyal to the Party should be removed through violent class struggle, symbolized by his call to “bomb the headquarters,” including the local government buildings, the headquarters of the parties, schools and colleges. Books that were determined to contradict Mao’s teachings were burned. Scholars, professors and government bureaucrats were sent to what was the equivalent of exile in the country to re-education and work camps.

All you have to do is subtract the word “camps” to describe what the Republican Party is now doing across this country. They ban books in Texas and elsewhere. They collect petitions to run recall elections against school board members who are guilty of teaching what they see as “anti-white” subjects in schools, which they mean is the actual history of the school. slavery, segregation and Jim Crow. In Florida, Gov. just proposed. Ron DeSantis drafted an “anti-Woke” law that allows parents to sue local school boards if they think their children are teaching a myth that is the subject of “critical race theory.” That measure is based on Texas anti -abortion law that recently went into effect that allows random citizens to sue anyone who facilitates an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. In both Florida and Texas, what is the value of vigilante cadres is established to enforce the will of the Party on the people – in this case, the will of the Republican Party.

Whenever a Republican stands up and points out that the emperor has no clothes, the Party destroys him. To your surprise, how long before you have to be a Republican to be purged and ruin your career? When does it happen that if you speak anti-Trump thoughts or write anti-Trump articles or attend anti-Trump rallies or even-God help us-vote against Trump, you put yourself in danger of Lose a job?

Mao unleashed the Cultural Revolution to destroy the Party’s critics and enemies. Stalin created the Gulag as an instrument of political repression to do the same thing. More than 18 million alleged Communist Party opponents were admitted to the camps between 1930 and 1953, the year of Stalin’s death.

Notice that in both cases, the Supreme Leader had to die on his own before his campaign of political repression, punishment and death ended.

Both the Soviet Union and China had to go through a process of self-correction after decades of political repression, mind control, re-education and murder. Russia’s self -correction eventually led to the bankruptcy and collapse of the Soviet Union. Self-correction in China has led to the abandonment of communism in all but name and to the re-creation of the country as a capitalist economy under centralized state control. Nothing in any country today looks like it was under the Maximum Leaders that overthrew them.

In this country, the Republican Party is “Republican” in name only and seems incapable of self -correction. It needs to discard Donald Trump’s ties and his lies in order for it to even start consciously. There may be skeptics in the Party ranks, or people who should not only know better but know better. But unless they can raise resistance without facing political death, the Republican Party’s cultural revolution will continue, if the past is a prelude, until the Supreme Leader dies.

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