The Threat from Within is Him

Graphic by Terelle Jerricks

The would-be dictator has no clothes Trump’s latest fascist rants and threats

Drivers on Highway 15 outside of Las Vegas were shocked and horrified at the end of September this year when they came upon a 43-foot-tall statue of a nude man resembling Donald Trump erected near Las Vegas, which drew attention ahead of Kamala Harris’ Oct. 19 rally. The 6,000 lb foam statue was displayed as a marionette. Named “Crooked and Obscene,” the statue was part of the “Crooked and Obscene Tour,” aimed to provoke discussion about the upcoming November election. The statue was taken down three days after the county supervisor contacted the private property owner. The artist’s name remains anonymous.

There was a great deal of speculation about the meaning of the statue by those who considered it shocking or obscene as the totally nude figure had a very limp digit dangling between his legs. MAGA devotees didn’t see the humor in the riff on the Hans Christian Anderson fable, The Emperor’s New Clothes. In this children’s story, a vain king was hoodwinked by weavers who sold him imaginary clothing, visible only to the wise and unseen by those who are ignorant, incompetent, or unfit for their position. Even some people in the media didn’t seem to get it either.

This is an apt metaphor for the would-be imperial president who has been on a fascist romp lately in Colorado and Coachella Valley, accusing his opposition of being the“enemy within” ― opponents like Rep. Adam Schiff and former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the “radical left lunatics” he likes to call them. These enemies are “more dangerous than Russia or China” he asserts repeatedly.

Once again, the orange wannabe-dictator is revealing his naked ambition to become the American strongman that divides rather than unites this country. When you actually listen to what he’s saying on Fox (so-called) news and at his rallies, he repeats the most outrageous lies, that the closer it gets to election day become even more unhinged than before. He believes if he repeats a lie often enough people will begin to believe them, like Haitians eating pets in Ohio.

It is the fascist recipe for causing chaos in a democracy and dividing the electorate. It might have worked if not for an adroit Kamala Harris campaign. But I think it’s backfiring on him. It’s not stopping him though. He is all in for the fascist playbook until the end.

He has to be stopped at the polls in the seven battle ground states and then convicted and imprisoned by Jack Smith for the Jan. 6 insurrection or any of the former president’s other treasonous acts. This is the only way to be rid of this public menace once and for all. He is a danger to our democracy and if the recent reports on more Russian interference are true on the social media platforms he is truly a traitor to our Constitution.

That anyone in the media or the Republican party is confused about the growing number of nakedly obscene Trumpian statues popping up in cities across the country. The obvious take on it is he has been exposed– some just can’t take the naked truth!

That truth is that he himself is the enemy of our republic and what he routinely accuses others of doing is like an admission of his own guilt. He gets shot at in a botched assassination attempt and suddenly it’s the democrats’ use of violent language that’s causing this. And of course, JD Vance, like a good hand puppet, repeats and exaggerates the same lies.

It’s perfectly apparent to anyone who hasn’t drunk the orange Kool-Aid that this is his latest grift and scam of the American people. He’s only beholden to the right-wing billionaires who are shoveling millions upon millions into the PACs and Republican coffers to spread more disinformation and to corrupt our easily corruptible political process. The naked effigy of the orange threat is as appro as it can get, for certainly reason has not defeated him yet.

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James Preston Allen

James Preston Allen, founding publisher of the Los Angeles Harbor Areas Leading Independent Newspaper 1979- to present, is a journalist, visionary, artist and activist. Over the years Allen has championed many causes through his newspaper using his wit, common sense writing and community organizing to challenge some of the most entrenched political adversaries, powerful government agencies and corporations. Some of these include the preservation of White Point as a nature preserve, defending Angels Gate Cultural Center from being closed by the City of LA, exposing the toxic levels in fish caught inside the port, promoting and defending the Open Meetings Public Records act laws and much more. Of these editorial battles the most significant perhaps was with the Port of Los Angeles over environmental issues that started from edition number one and lasted for more than two and a half decades. The now infamous China Shipping Terminal lawsuit that derived from the conflict of saving a small promontory overlooking the harbor, known as Knoll Hill, became the turning point when the community litigants along with the NRDC won a landmark appeal for $63 million.