When Fascism Comes to America by Glen Brown

When Fascism Comes to America by Glen Brown
(after Terry Ehret)
 
It will come as “a fat white slug, a Jabba the Hutt of privilege”
that perpetuates lies through distraction, threat conflation,
normalization and repetition to confuse and mislead the public.
It will come with a mind that is “a simple bot-like algorithm
of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.”
It will threaten our free press and call the news media:
"the enemy of the American people."
It will discount any information from mainstream media
and empower the worst reckless voices from the Far Right.
It will threaten free and fair elections, individual rights,
independent courts, and the Rule of law.
It will undermine the Separation of Powers
and threatened critics with prosecution and lawsuits.
It will utilize the complicity and cowardice of a Sycophantic Party.
It will demand that federal prosecutors target political opponents.
It will denounce the Justice Department
and the FBI as “the deep state.”
It will abuse pardoning powers and undermine military justice.
It will denigrate both living and dead American soldiers
and will refer to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives
at Belleau Wood as "suckers for getting killed.” 
It will create and capitalize on chaos.
It will empower fascists and white nationalists.
It will not protect the nation and its political system
from damaging cyber-attacks by hostile foreign powers.
It will extol Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, Rodrigo Duterte,
Jair Bolsonaro, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and other despots.
It will attack American allies and their leaders.
It will be friends of the Ku Klux Klan
and other white extremists and populists.
It will appoint oligarchs, Wall Street bankers,
industry insiders, and special-interest lobbyists
to plunder this country’s resources and money.
It will be a serial abuser of discretionary powers
and ignore the legislative and judicial branches of government
and their Balance of Power.
It will attack the U.S. Intelligence Agencies.
It will heighten polarization and partisanship. 
It will be contemptuous and ignorant
of the Constitution of the United States of America.
It will never "faithfully execute the Office of President
of the United States" and "preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.”