By Donald A. Collins | 25 August 2025
Church and State

Dictators always use some lever to control the weary into allowing them extraordinary authority. Hitler used Jews. Trump is now using claims of crime and violence which do not match the circumstances as his modus operandi!
On page one on the August 24 Washington Post story reads “Pentagon draft plan to dispatch troops to Chicago. Crime crackdown in works for weeks”.
Breaking: Trump's next terrorist attack will be on Chicago per @washingtonpost. Several thousand guard and possibly active troops.
It's unconstitutional of course but who's going to stop him? His whores on the Supreme Court? https://t.co/XeN3lZ4js6
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 24, 2025
In short, there can be no doubt that all these coordinated moves are simply steps in the Trump plan to rest democratic control of the government into his very clear dictatorship.
America is in an emergency situation and unfortunately, too many citizens are asleep.
Of course, the major assault is the big Texas vote scam, which is now being perpetrated by other red state, which will surely ensure that the GOP holds the majority in the US House of Representatives in the 2025 midterms unless the Democrats can rally enough support from the big states like California to offset this outrage.
We’ve seen how ICE storm troopers have gathered up immigrants on any pretence.
Then we watch the FBI assault on John Bolton at his home and his office here in Washington.
"This is unlike anything we've ever seen before."
The Atlantic's David Frum on the "sick psychological dynamic of what President Trump is up to" with proceedings like the FBI raid on former national security advisor John Bolton. #Newsnight pic.twitter.com/xKuXf7l7qL
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) August 22, 2025
We watch the takeover of cultural icons such as the Kennedy Center for the performing arts.
That, of course, was preceded by the destruction of USAID and the voice of America.
In short dictator Trump attacked every institution in the United States and every individual who in anyway said anything about him that he didn’t like because he had the power to do so.
This concentration of Nazi level incursions on our democracy was well defined and a variety of appearances by former Secretary of Labour Robert Reich, who had no problem identifying Trump for the Nazi he is.
Sunday thought: Is there a silver lining to these darkening clouds? https://t.co/kHytIJycYs
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 24, 2025
Now the primary basis stopping this outrage will be using every power that exists against these activities, but the primary requirement will be the recognition of what is happening, which is clearly not high enough awareness as the summer quietly comes in and people are away or engaged in other activities.
Let’s be sure that as the fall begins, we will initiate the fall of this unconscionable villain, who has betrayed his trust, committed treason as a felon, as well as being a stupid, incompetent, feckless fraud.
Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC, has spent over 50 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote”, “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”, “Will Choice and Democracy Win?”, “Can Our U.S. Survive 8 Plus Billion of Us”, “Economic Growth: A Cancer on all Earthly Life”, “On the Precipice of Political Disaster in 2024”, “Democracy at Red State Risk”, “Does Trump Go to Jail or to The Oval Office?”, “Trump: Pardon or Punish?: The Nixon Precedence Was Not A Trump Coup Denied!”, “Common Sense: When will Trump be Impeached, Indicted, and Exited?” and “Trump–unrestrained dangerous liar!”.“What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”: https://t.co/fHuh0CG6JD
“We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”: https://t.co/TA4j7cp1tE
“From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”: https://t.co/lkC2t3E1A9 pic.twitter.com/bQsL2mLBcO— Church and State (@ChurchAndStateN) November 1, 2021
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