has been terribly destructive. Core to his approach has been his continuous barrage of fake news and steady lying with no apologies, anchored by the so-called Big Lie that the last election was stolen.
This is core to his and the GOP’s success to date. They have rewritten history as an excuse for all they do. Right out of 1984. If they win, they will have succeeded in controlling the past, by nullifying the previous Biden/Democratic win. Very Stalinist. They will have, metaphorically, vaporized the past 4 years in the U.S.
As Orwell said, control of the present can control the past, and, therefore, the future, too. A major dissent into chaos, violence, hate, and an all-out attack on the populace, starting with doing away with democratic elections.
What is truly tragic, though is the omnipresent amount of American public ignorance, which has become an Orwellian/Trumpian strength in this transition and GOP takeover. Many U.S. citizens has become case-hardened and used to being lied to, and will now follow Old Orange Face, unquestioningly, into the abyss.
Commented on elsewhere of late has been the U.S. suppression of the teaching of history so that young people have no larger social memories, making them perfect puppets and dupes for the GOP takeover long-term.
And, overall–as Winston Smith noted–all you have is that few centimeters in the individual skull which is the last bastion of freedom. Once that is messed with and had memories and the memory function erased, the game is over and the dictators and autocrats shall have their ways with individuals. No one will be free anymore. They will cease to be autonomous individuals and merely become hateful mobs pig-piling to Trump’s tune.
Again, the key to everything/the whole shooting match is memory control. So if the GOPs win this election, they win the dispute over whether Biden got elected and whether the January 6 insurrection ever happened. These are no longer relevant facts because the one-third voters, by and large have let the crazies take over. And if they say This or that never happened, then…..Then all that shall be left is non-stop lies and autocratic control of an entire country with a thoroughly-corrupt fatcat dictator waiting in the wings come 2024. Trump would then get what he wanted: Big Brother status so he can chum freely with Kim Jong-Un, Putin, and other like-minded dictators.