"I love the smell of burning Democrat bodies in the morning"

The democracy-butchered prospect of Democratic fortress Chicago turning red in 2026 is no longer unthinkable. Its foundation of violence and voter intimidation is being laid by Trump brick by brute-force brick.

He rarely makes secret his despotic corruption, now deepened by desperation. (More on that in a moment.) Thus yesterday, as you know, on Truth Social he posted this abomination: 'I love the smell of deportations in the morning...' Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of War.

That he followed with three helicopter emojis — the far-right's hard-on for Chilean dictator Pinochet's "death flights," during which dissidents were hurled from the lofted chopper — and that followed by an accurate pictorial representation of Trump as the insane lieutenant colonel of Apocalypse Now, which I decline to repost.

As ugly as Trump's most recent foray into madness is, his maga Truth Social commenters are every bit as pathologically abnormal and, all too commonly, just as hideous. This morning I ventured into their rabbit hole, and from the subterranean safe place I pulled a scattering of maga's defective mentality.           

@ChrisMartineauAuthor mused that "Democrats are FURIOUS that Trump is actually solving black on black crime" — seriously, maga believes that Democratic pols thrive on blacks killing blacks, so they're — "in a full-blown panic that he will do the same thing in other Democrat strongholds.... Once voters see how solvable this problem is..., Democrats are sunk."

@DeschutesRiver1983 replied to @ChrisMartineauAuthor: "The first Arrests" — Trump's weird capitalization appears to harbor an idiosyncratic contagion — "should be the Mayor and the Governor of Chicago" — the pathogen's secondary symptom: syntactical difficulty.

And to both commenters, @toditec replied: "I love the smell of burning Democrat bodies in the morning."

@toditec's joyfully psychotic, a-gathering-of-mass-murder remark about a purportedly lawful deportation campaign incongruently designated a "war" reveals the primordial bloodlusting psyche of Trump's core base — into which he has tapped for years, but only now is explicit about.

He's a wounded, near-crippled and cornered barbarian in a bruising siege: a tanking economy, a confederate-scorned lunatic cabinet, a growing anti-U.S. global alliance of his own making, and polling's increasingly tumescent job-disapproval ratings.

Indeed, Trump's numbers have begun defying the political cliché of a halfsies electorate. While negative partisanship still reigns, partisan as well as nonpartisan negativity aligning against Trump is approaching a solid 60% range in poll after independent poll.     

Critically, the escalating negative percentage yields no approximate, corresponding 40% maga range typified by commenter @toditec's ilk and its carnographic love of "Democrat bodies" reeking aflame.

A July 2025 YouGov survey showed maga as just less than half of Republicans, themselves half of November's vote. (Maga's percentage of the adult population: roughly 15). And July's numerical loyalty was down from March by all but a double-digit, which suggests that Trumpism, in 2026, is in for big trouble.

And that brings us back to the city of Chicago, for one.

To recap, maga envisions Democrats in "full-blown panic," Democrats as "incestuous rioters," rank-and-file Democrats immolated and smoldering, Democratic leaders, imprisoned. The party in toto, "sunk."

To pump more air into maga's effigy, to keep their faith by really blowing things up, to kill the siege and break out of his desperate electoral funk, Trump needs only to invoke the Posse Comitatus Act in Chicago and other cerulean-blue cities, using the military to interfere with, and upend, the opposition-favored midterms. That the statute bars Trump from such use is of negligible significance — lawlessness being his universal go-to tactic.

There exists one body capable of blowing up Trump instead, and it's not that of incestuously rioting Democrats. It's the military.

By law America's armed forces are obligated to refuse illegal and "immoral' orders from a crack-brained commander in chief. Perhaps even Pete Hegseth's brass monkeys will reread the rulebook and come around to side with codified law, the U.S. Constitution and, simply, their theretofore-displaced human decency.

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