During his address to Congress last week, Donald Trump promised that he was “just getting started." Trump is America’s first elected autocrat. His “just getting started” means an escalation in his neofascist campaign to end America’s multiracial pluralistic democracy and turn the country into a version of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary or Vladimir Putin’s Russia, nullify the rule of law, ignore and stain the Constitution (and especially the Bill of Rights), make the country into a white Christian authoritarian state, betray America’s allies and friends, take even more of the American people’s money and give it to the richest corporations and individuals, and pull apart an already threadbare social safety net — which will include gutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
At his core, Trump’s political vision and style are driven by political sadism. Trump’s will to power and his personality demand that he not stop his “shock and awe” campaign against American democracy and a humane society.
