The Courtship of Stehpen's Father

Watch this video of a side by side comparison of Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

Donald Trump lacks the intelligence, planning and resilience to execute the plan to destroy democracy and replace it with authoritarianism. Trump is a fragile narcissist. Trump is a puppet. The puppeteers that pull the strings are a complicated group of international and domestic players, and that group includes the Russians as well as people like Stephen Miller. The puppeteers are the people we must fight. If the puppeteers can use Trump as a figurehead to destroy American democracy, then we can use Donald Trump to destroy the puppeteers.

We must have a cogent and clear message to fight the authoritarians, and we must relentlessly broadcast that message. We must help our neighbors that have been duped by Trumpian propaganda, and mere facts won't do that. A sea change to course correct our fall into authoritarianism can only happen if the truth of our real stories emerge through protest. That protest must tell the the true stories of us. We cannot let our fears cause us to give over our freedoms to authoritarians that falsely promise us that things will be "safer and better" if we just suspend habeus corpus, freedom of speech, and all our Constitutional rights. We must constantly protest, yes, but we must also be patient with others that have opposing views. We must have civil dialogue with Trump's base in order help them see they have been manipulated by master propagandists like Stephen Miller. Protest alone will not be enough--we must engage our neighbors that support Trump to save American democracy. It will not be easy. Many Trumpians will never change their minds because mere facts don't change people's minds, but there are some good people who have lost their way, and I believe that they accidentally supported Trump because they were lost and afraid. We can reach those folks. We don't need to reach every Trump supporter. We only need to reach enough Trump supporters to change their minds in order to vote the authoritarians out of office in 2028 (and sooner).

We have lost much ground and it will take time to rebuild, but we must first stop the authoritarians. America wasn't the greatest before Trumpian authoritarianism took power this year, but we were at least making steady progress in economic equality, human rights, environmental causes, and checking corporations through basic consumer protections. There was a time when conservative leaders were empathetic and reasonable. There was a time, just recently, that our leaders stood for decency and civil discourse, as John McCain did in 2008 when he defended Obama, his political rival, from fear mongering racists. We need to find those people, the McCains of the world, and talk to them because even if we disagree on policy, we can all agree that we're in this together and we must find solutions to maintain a safe and prosperous society.

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In an article I'm working on now I will explore the people who are pulling Donald Trump's strings and the factors that allowed us to even elect someone like Donald Trump. To understand how we got here is the first step in stopping the authoritarians from taking over. Events happening right now in 2025 America have complex roots that go back decades, and authoritarians are attempting a coup using the long standing fears and anxieties of the American people. The authoritarians were kind enough to share their plans with the publication of Project 2025 so we know what we're up against. We cannot let them win. Our children are depending on us.