Trump and deputy thug Todd Blanche have revealed - explicitly - the regime's final target

Be it known that Trump is a “very strong person for free speech."

Of course we must understand that, as in physics, there are no absolutes. Hence there are certain conditions attached to Trump's exceptionally strong belief in the Constitution's First Amendment protection of free speech.

Not that I would ever take the despotic hooligan's twaddlements personally, but one of his rather disturbing conditions is that, potentially, this post, which is to say, I, am subject to a RICO prosecution.

Neither is the observation hysterical on my part. It is instead a straightforward legal theory proposed by Trump. And as America has learned of late, Trump's crackpot legal theories tend to metamorphose into legal realities — congressional lawmakers being nothing more than idle bystanders and, as Joe Stalin remarked about the pope, how many divisions do the courts have?

Trump's preliminary creation of U.S. law occurred when he asked his pliable attorney general last week "to look into that in terms of bringing RICO cases against them — criminal RICO." The them were protesters at a D.C. restaurant where Trump was dining with other inner-circle pliabilities. The that is what they said: "Trump is the Hitler of our time."

I've said the same on this site and I say it again. He's not the American Hitler of 1939 Germany but he is the Hitler of 1933. His invention of unconstitutional law is the authoritarian doppelgänger of Hitler's demolition of the Weimar Republic while parliamentary lawmakers stood by idly and courts of conscientious resistance were helpless.

Trump's deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, who sidelines as a comforter of child sex traffickers, lent ethereal substance to the autocratic legal theory of RICO-prosecutable free speech. (See: certain conditions.) "This is not about words that are used," said Blanche. "There’s nothing wrong with peaceful protests … and nobody has ever said so.” He thereupon proceeded to say so.

"What the administration is talking about is organized efforts by individuals who are not present at the protest, but they’re funding these protests," he said. There, Blanche was getting at the real substance of who shall be RICO prosecutable.

Although according to Trump's legal theory, even as a non-funder of peaceful dissent I could be one — "cases against them" should be brought, he said of the also peacefully dissenting at the D.C. restaurant — his ultimate target is far larger and infinitely more essential to American freedom than some obscure writer. And Blanche went on, circuitously, to identify that target.

"Is it … sheer happenstance that individuals show up at a restaurant ... and accost him with vile words and vile anger?" he asked. "To the extent that it’s part of an organized effort to inflict harm and terror and damage to the United States, there’s potential, potential investigations there."

Yet the protesters were doing no damage; they were inflicting no harm, no terror; and they most decidedly were not "threatening violence [and] murder [and] threatening to kill people" — which Blanche added to the scene in a flurry of his own creativity — all that being "what we cannot tolerate in this country."

He again slithered around the substantive target: "The Republican Party and this administration believes in [the First Amendment] more than most having been subjected to what we’ve been subjected to for the last several years." Then he struck:

"We’re not the Democratic Party."

That's the prey in Trump's rifle scope — collectively, the opposition's "individuals," as Blanche said, behind "organized efforts" of dissent "who are not present ... but [are] funding these protests." Thus RICO prosecutable are workers at Democratic Party-financing organizations such as ActBlue and party leaders who work with outside funders. In short, the target writ large: civil liberties and the American political system.

Does it matter that Trump's peaceful protesters were unassociated with either group and that Democratic principals have threatened no violence? Did it matter to Hitler that the Reichstag's Social Democrats, who in March 1933 found themselves in a concentration camp, were engaged in only nonviolent resistance to his regime?

No matter — not then, not now. Trump is hellbent on demolishing the American republic and its liberal democracy. Every day, he makes his dictatorial "Trump First" scheme a bit clearer. It would take him quite some time to work his way down to publicly dissenting obscurities like me — breathing time disallowed by his gluttonous life of heart-throttling cheeseburgers — so that too is no matter of personal distress. But what he's doing to this country, yeah, that's ... worrisome.

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