Yesterday, the White House posted a new version of the January 6th Insurrection, a complete rewrite of history. In this new version, the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 were patriots, and “President Trump took decisive action to pardon January 6 defendants who were unfairly targeted, overcharged, and used as political examples. They were not protected by the leaders who failed them.” 

In the election of November 2024, Donald Trump won the presidency and the Republicans captured both the House of Representatives and the Senate. They have the power to pass and enact new laws and to undo and repeal old laws and regulations; they do not, however, have the right to rewrite history, nor do they have the right to sacrifice and destroy our democracy.

After nearly a year of sending masked and armed troops into the peaceable streets of American cities, this administration now thinks that it can unilaterally undo 80 years of rules based peace and kidnap and extract a president of another independent nation. Without a doubt, Nicolas Maduro is an awful man who has killed many thousands of his own citizens and ruled Venezuela as a ruthless dictator, but there are international rules and organizations that are designed to deal with such actors. The Trump Administration did not seek allies to deal with this man in a lawful way, but instead decided to seize the moment in an incredible “macho” use of American armed forces. Clearly, this was not about narco drug trafficking but all about OIL. God knows we need to be pumping and burning ever more oil, pushing our climate ever closer to a complete collapse

America is now in the hands of a billionaire’s cabal which is content to allow Trump to do whatever he wants as long as they are unfettered in their pursuit to make themselves even more rich and powerful, while average Americans find the American dream slipping through their fingers.

I hope and pray that the foundations of our American Democracy are strong enough to resist and turn back this evil tide. America’s midterm elections are set to occur in a little more than 300 days from now–will they? I believe that this our only hope.