By Tim Wood
There was a great cartoon that came out during the 2024 campaign season: A billboard within a field of sheep shows a wolf (in coat and tie) with a quote that says “I will eat you!” … and one sheep says to another, “He tells it like it is!” Of course it’s an “on” Trump satire that causes the sort of chuckle that means: Sad but true.
I have to say, and I don’t mean this in a mean way, that I cannot, at this point in time, spend any more time trying to understand anyone who can still support a man like Trump. The gulf is simply too wide.
Trump told us on the campaign trail what he was going to do, and he is doing it, as I speak, unabated by our own U.S. congress as well as states like Florida, Texas and South Carolina: Our own supreme court and other Fed “judgeship” appointees; All them willing to follow the guidelines set down (for all to see) within the Project 2025 manifesto.
They have been telling us all along: We will tear down your “woke” democracy and revolutionize the USA through and with the concepts of Project 2025.
What the majority of citizens thought and what people like me prayed for, was that our constitutional guardrails would hold, never considering that this Republican Congress would kneel and kiss the Trump ring so readily, offering up their own legislative powers. But here we are, following the same path as Orban’s Hungary. Google how well Hungary is fairing … shades of things to come.
The Epstein fiasco is another disgrace. The Trump team has been pouring through those documents, eating up thousands of man hours. Do you really believe Trump will be exposed within them by this time? Why can’t people simply trust and believe (at least, say, three) of the dozens of women (since 1970) with 25+ sexual abuse allegations pending against this convicted felon for, guess what: Sexual abuse and defamation.
For a man who believes that his enemies have weaponized the Federal government with “woke” ideologies, how can his supporters not see Trump’s own weaponization of our Federal government with Project 2025’s totalitarianism and religious doctrines? I think it’s simple: This is the “revolutionized” government they want; Why else do we have a Congress and Supreme Court enabling this U.S. president?
They want a country that functions under the Project 2025 plan. They want a country that performs like a present day (Christian) Russia under our present leadership.
Why not? The present elected Congress, (lifetime) judge appointments, as well as the Executive Branch, see themselves in power positions for an unknown and unlimited amount of time, never having to worry about that messy, democratic process they spend so much of their time and money on. Totalitarian and authoritarian governments are much more simple and easier to rule, especially under marshal law.
And Trump is about to test those totalitarian waters in Washington D.C. itself. Let’s see what happens.
Tim and Kristy Wood moved to Beaufort in 1974. He worked as a carpenter in both restoration and new home construction, as well as operating a shop specializing in custom woodwork, Wood on Wood Specs. He is semi-retired, involved with fine woodworking and formerly sat on the City of Beaufort Zoning Board of Appeals.
