Should Donald Trump Be Seen (And Legally Investigated, and Potentially Punished), As a ‘Force’ (a Psych-Spectrum Case)? Does America Have Precedent in It’s Laws

 The Perched Eye blog is 14 years old,  from 2009 with President Obama's election. Our focus has been eclectic ...  the styles and directions of American politics and culture, with an occasional comment on the impact of new technologies. Our observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted.

Donald Trump might (/should) be viewed as a ‘force’ (a psych-spectrum case), not simply as just a person. But how can an unembodied ‘something’ be punished by a legal system whose underlying origin, purpose, and intent are focused on organic, living things? Can America’s legal system put a ‘force’ on trial? It seems difficult to do …as America is experiencing.

It seems we’re just now realizing that Trump and Trumpism are forces — the former a psych-spectrum ‘case,’ and the latter ‘-ism’ a belief movement intent (by real past actions) on destroying American democratic operations. 

Therefore, at the least to deter future ‘Jan 6’s (2021)’, the punishment for the ‘Jan6’ attempted overthrow of the American government is left with increasing the legal weight of the crime, i’e’, the sentence term. Hence, the DOJ's move to increase sentences for sedition appears logical and perhaps the only recourse to handling cases like Donald Trump’s seditious actions and planning to lead to Jan 6 (and obstructions thereafter.)

One can get lost in legalese ‘entanglements’, but lengthier sentences can serve to prevent future seditious acts, as well as punish the current conspirators whose intent was to overthrow the elected American government. 

(Remember Germany’s experience with Hitler, who was convicted of conspiracy and sedition to overthrow Germany’s 1920s Weimar Republic, but only served 9 months of a 5-year term, then went on to gain total power…with the aid of MAGA-like ultra-right wing thugs and para-military elements, Hitler’s Brown Shirt supporters.) Don’t doubt that America saw the same elements (pro-Hitler thugs and legitimate congresspersons) assembled here to forcibly gain total power for Trump, who openly stated his intentions to serve as many terms as he wanted, and destroy his enemies. Trump’s plans for regaining the ‘throne’ were (are/should be) scary. 

Let’s trust in the American legal process — the simplest route to prevent future ‘Jan6’s is to increase the incarceration terms for sedition. (Otherwise, we will have to wait maybe 4–5 years, or more, for the current Supreme Court to even hear the Jan6 case against Trump-the-person.

AMERICA’S 4 YEARS IN THE FORGE, THE TRUMP POTUS — WHERE WILL WE GO NOW? (CAN AMERICA ESCAPE FROM ITS PROBLEMS IN RIVER CITY?)

 The Perched Eye blog is 12+ years old,  from 2009 with President Obama's first term. Our focus has been eclectic ...  the ways and directions of American politics and culture, and occasionally summarizing the potential impact of new technologies. Pericles21's observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted.                                                                                                                                                                                  -------------------

The 8th ‘Jan 6 Coup’ televised session on July 23, 2022, brought things Trumpily to a head. America appeared to have run out of excuses to give and listen to, from Trump. Co-Chair Liz Cheney has acquired a razor sharp  deadliness in her summations of Trump's mal-behavior leading to, on and after the attempted coup in Washington DC on Jan 6, 2021.

Co-Chair Liz Cheny wrapped up the 8th Hearing with a brutally direct insight..’can America afford to let Trump slide by with an indictment, or a post-potus impeachment —both ‘punishments which mean serious loss of public face to ordinary Americans but mean nothing more to Trump than than scuff on his gold shoe…or should America ‘bite the bullet’ and hit him where we now know he can be hurt — by cutting off his access to adulation and power by banning him from ever occupying an elected or public position of any kind, ever again?

My answer is FIRST to refer to Trump’s very few heroes, apart from Roy Cohn who some feel rose to the surface of this planet from the left hand ‘pet-stool’ next to the ‘Deev’l’ himself, Adolph HItler whose ‘Mein Kampf’ Trump kept next to his bed and read from to fall asleep many nights.

SECOND, America must accept it was played…hard…like a country rube who wilingly opened his pockets to be robbed by a fast-talking conman. (Rural America, see yourself in that mirror.) [This experience with Trump has been so ‘Oneill-ish’. America’s 21st century experience with Trump was written about in our 19th century ‘American’ literature centering on the con man. 

Where did the con man come from — ”… the complicated nature of American capitalism…depended on people being hustlers in both the positive and the negative sense - The American economy wasn’t built just on good ideas and hard work. It was also built on hope and HYPE”]. 

America played out in real life the classic American stage and book theme of the con man, only a century later than expected, i.e., ‘Trump the River City rip off POTUS’,… ‘yup’ he got us.

My answer in summary, “America, please grow up, wise up, step up and do the right thing — keep Trump away from elections, from public office, from any one or group linked to terrorism or a terrorist listed factor…and especially don’t let him remain near any secret service detail …at least no more than a week at a time…and no repeat assignees.

It’s America’s loss that Napoleonic exileof Trump to some isolated isle is not possible (maybe?). Return is always possible so maybe it’s best to keep the f…r close at hand? Not my problem to solve but personally it will bother me to know Trump is not perfectly bottled up.

Let’s not forget what ‘we’ve’ learned from Trump — he’s a businessman in the classic American theme…we wanted a chance to see ‘what would happen’. Trump’s only qualification was that he was a businessman (or so he claimed…and he apparentlly operated successfully in a world of ‘no holds barred’ real estate capitalism..in New York City, the Bronx, no less…or so we were told and so we believed.

But the reality of Trump, behind his unreality TV show was all smoke and mirrors. Trump’s reality was ‘hide the bottome line and show the sucker no mercy’. Liie today, beg forgiveness tomorrow and the devil take you and yours if you fall for his BS….MEANWHILE JUST BE A GOOD PATSY AND LET’S JUST MOVE ON. America fell for that like a virgin patsy, rubes at a two-tent Carnival. Amd now we’re trying to put things back together…but the hyena still roams around the campfire.

We wanted a businessman and we got one…so let’s shut up, lick our wounds real and mentally and try to move on. Hard message but reality. The answer is to deal out our own reality back on Trump.

BUT…we have to respect the office. We can’t let history decribe how low America sank so we have to salvage some dignity.

So,…Give him his POTUS pension. BUT DO NOT LET HIM NEAR SECRET SERVICE PERSONNEL. Strip him of all other awards, honors and emoluments except the very basic percs.

BUT.. RESTRICT HIM FROM SOCIAL MEDIA FOR 5–10 YEARS, BAN HIM FROM ASSOCIATING WITH ANY ORGANIZATIONS OR PERSONS LISTED AS, OR LINKED TO, DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, OR LISTS,

TRUMP ON THE LOOSE IS A FACTOR AMERICA (as a democracy) IS NOT ABLE TO DEAL WITH. (America as to admit to having been played in order to respond to Trump appropriately.)

In 1923, Germany couldn’t keep Hitler in prison even after a trial and sentencing hm for sedition and treason after he tried to overthrow the Weimar democracy (….they now know better.) AND WHO IS ONE OF THE FEW HEROES TO TRUMP? YUP, OLE ADOLPH…Trump went to sleep evry night after reading from Mein Kampf.

America should also have learned to spot a Neo-Hitler in Trump. YES, Trump! Does Trump have remorse? No…it all in his ‘nature’. Do you let your pet Python crawl around on the floor with your 5 month old baby while you go shopping? NO! Is it remorseful lying there with a big belly when you get home and can’t find Junior? NO!. America fortunately has the chance to mature from Trump and Liz Cheney spoke the truth…we’ve got to handle this as if our democracy is at stake. IT IS!

THE 'JAN 6 (2021) COUP' CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS - EVEN BACK IN 2015, SHOULDNT WE HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? (SOME DID)

This blog post is 12+ years old from 2009 with President Obama's first term. Our posts focus on national affairs and culture, and occasionally technology. Sometimes our observations receive a critical eye, but our 'pen' remains unblunted as we keep a sharp eye on the ways and directions of American politics and culture.  

THE THEME.  We must take advantage of this time of plague and political danger to sit, think, reconcile and reset America's path forward.   

There must be a national reconciliation of political parties and a re-defining of our national morals, ethics, and perspectives ...and especially we must commit to our future goals for the COMMON GOOD ... and then let those seeds grow for five years until we can how to make them better.  All of these qualities and thoughts seem to have been trounced during the grab-bag, treasure hunt Trump years whose tainted air, though dissipating, stubbornly lingers! 

In retrospect, and with perhaps just a little bit of mind-stretching, we might have imagined and posted a prediction of the January 6, 2021, near-coup. But we held back on 'going there' and even sketch-posting such a  scene as too...something. And anyway, wouldn't the mechanics of our government prevent such a banana-republic thing from happening ...here? But it did nearly happen here and right before our shocked eyes (but not a surprise to the cabal of 'important' establishment figures, minor actors, and just ordinary followers of Trump ... united in their 'heil' adulation of Trump.)

Nowhere along this trail of postings since 2009, did this blogger truly expect America to have a coup set in motion ... by, and with the cooperation of (co-conspiracy, abetting?) rightist-leaning establishment individuals and institutions ... who collectively operated in the dark and who then, with their side-puppets, hid their plans from intelligence and law enforcement agencies. (When just knowing about them and not reporting such conspiracy planning is a violation of national security laws.) 

In retrospect, the co-conspirators in the nature of amateurs brayed their hubris and cultish intentions for all to hear and see... by whoever chose to hear and see. Trump's supporters heard the call clearly and a bunch showed up in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. 

Apparently, all of that background came as a surprise to the Trump opposition.  And this could be a critical test for American democracy, i.e, even among Trump non-supporters, were there those who knew what was planned but kept quiet?  Will there have to be a national reconciliation of political parties and defining our national morals, perspectives ...and especially our future goals as a nation for the COMMON GOOD.  All of these qualities seem to have been trounced during the grab-bag tenor of the Trump years.

[The author - world citizen, educator, technologist, candidate for elected office...santiago-compostela pilgrim.]