There is an underground movement rising in this country that reminds one of Germany in the 1930’s – which also began as an underground movement – and reared its ugly head in America just prior to WWII.

Our democracy is at stake, as was the Weimar constitution. The destruction of our democracy is clearly represented by discussions and comments made in a recently leaked group chat that comprised of leaders from the Young Republicans National Federation (some of the chat highlights were black people referred to as “monkeys” and “the watermelon people,” other racial epithets thrown around casually, and the work of Adolf Hitler praised with a simple “I love Hitler” comment).

The shocking thing is, is that this a group of young leaders, and it is youth that represents the future of this country. The Young Republicans National Federation must be monitored and taken seriously as a danger to the future of our nation.

The speech they are using is indicative of dark and sinister motives and agents working, not just within this organization, but in our society.

This is one of, presumably many groups that have sprouted in the wake of Trump’s rise to power and his usage of, “…persistent…hostile, often inflammatory language…that normalizes aggressive discourse in conservative circles [and] can be incredibly influential on young operatives who are still trying to figure out, ‘What is that political discourse?’”

There are enough divisions in America going on right now, and we don’t need a young generation of Neo-Nazis whose true mission goes against the belief and promise of America. They must be stopped in their tracks.

Notes:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146?cid=apn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

WHO WE ARE

Americans today should look closely at the threats to our democracy.

Whenever a political party pressures all members to vote as a block and works to punish any outliers who disobey, while at the same time pardoning those who have committed treason, that party has abandoned democracy and has embraced authoritarian, minority rule.

Today, America is facing a would-be dictator.

The future of America may well depend on thoughtful, reflective people who arrive at their voting booth, put their country first and choose democracy.

Notes: https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/opinion/2021/12/12/taft-much-rides-republicans-choosing-democracy-voting-booth/6461624001/

This was posted in 2016 before Trump was elected the first time. Nothing has changed, including the American people. The only change now, is that Trump has the power to destroy America and the world, as given to him by us.

People of America, rise up, en masse!

“We have extraordinary power. We’re the vast majority.” This government, these corporations in bed with Trump and his cronies rely on us.

Even if we can’t count on our elected politicians to protect our First Amendment rights, we can rely on ourselves. When our outrage translates into withholding our consumer dollars…” big corporations listen and respond

“Remember this.”

Trump this! Heil Hitler!

America wake up before it is too late! I have watched the rise of Donald Trump with fear and trembling. Right from the get go I thought this man was a “clear and present danger” to the US. He is a demagogue. He is a rabble rouser, a crowd pleaser, a tough guy, a false God, and yet a pied piper. 

He collects the poor, the less educated, the unemployed or underemployed, the disillusioned, and he promises them the sun, the moon and the stars. Of course these people go along. But so did the German people go along with Hitler. This is what I find so frightening. I remember Germany before WWII. I remember Hitler at Nuremberg, whipping the public into a frenzy with the belief that he would make Germany great again and give it back to the Germans. Trump promises to give America back to the Americans and make it great again. He also promises to put up a wall. Remember the wall in Eastern Europe? Doesn’t that sound familiar? Has he completely forgotten history? Or is he banking that you won’t remember or care?

The man is a quintessential bully. He doesn’t have a practical platform to stand on. Look at the man’s record. When he is criticized, he counters with “That’s a lie” even though it is there on record. He says he started with nothing, but if you take time to look you see he received his money from his family. His grandfather was a pimp, his father had ties to the Ku Klux Klan, and Trump ran a University that was a sham. He stole people’s money, he is a thief and a liar and yet he lives off of franchising his own name, claiming one of quality and success. Look harder and you see he is nothing more that a consummate liar, a clown and a crook. He is a Hitler in the making. Remember, Hitler was elected by the German People. Is America going to go the same way?

Notes:

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-deeper-story-behind-americas?utm_source=substack&publication_id=365422&post_id=174061762&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1MDA0NDAzMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc0MDYxNzYyLCJpYXQiOjE3NTg1ODAxMDAsImV4cCI6MTc2MTE3MjEwMCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM2NTQyMiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.qcUcV0UiDf9gzBUyqNSSOW0KMuqpCqqclVf7BQ2Uwao&r=tsm7z&triedRedirect=true

Democracy is a difficult and fragile form of government.

It requires a healthy and educated public to function.

It is clear that Donald Trump wants to destroy our democracy.

His attack on Universities and health services makes it ever more clear that Trump is a dictator who wants a dumbed down, sick public totally dependent on him and under his control.

Donald J. Trump’s sole end goal is total control of America and revenge against anyone who disagrees with him.

This man, who has abused women and young girls, added billions to his personal wealth while president, and been hostile and vindictive towards anyone who has had differing opinions than his own.

His tariffs will weaken the economy and raise the cost of living.

He is turning friends of the United States into enemies, isolating the US.

Rewarding his friends who supported him in committing treason against the United States government.

Clearly, this man should be impeached and imprisoned.

Americans, wake up! Refuse to watch anything produced by ABC or Disney as a consequence of their decision to remove Jimmy Kimmel from the air. They have decided to support Donald Trump’s personal vendetta against anyone who disagrees with him. It is a total denial of free speech and of everything that America stands for. Everyone, take ABC off your watch list. Let them die, aborning.

“As Letterman said, ‘the institution of the President of the United States ought to be bigger than a guy doing a talk show, you know you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful [that they’ll get a laugh]. That’s just not how this works.'”

Notes:

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-humorless-president?utm_source=substack&publication_id=365422&post_id=173985358&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1MDA0NDAzMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTczOTg1MzU4LCJpYXQiOjE3NTgyNjk1OTMsImV4cCI6MTc2MDg2MTU5MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTM2NTQyMiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.snHJDy8UKl0FeJKj_vUjHbhG7JAiplUvORbgIkQcE8w&r=tsm7z&triedRedirect=true

Just to give you a few portraits of Trump’s recent appointments and supporters:

1. Charles Haywood is the founder of “the secretive Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), a men-only, invitation-only, Christian ultranationalist network” that has been pointed to by the Middlebury Institute Report as having “undercurrents of neo-fascist accelerationism … in SACR’s Christian philosophy and articulated by SACR leaders”.

He recently called for “the total denigration of ‘career’ as the main goal of women”.

2. Trump’s own assistant attorney for Civil Rights, Missouri senator Eric Schmitt. In February, Schmitt hired Nate Hochman as a policy advisor. He was hired despite his previous professional history of creating video content for other political figures that contained neo-Nazi imagery and the targeting of Haitian migrants, LGBTQ+ people, and human rights groups.

There is a further roster of people of lesser importance, but nonetheless, destructive to our democracy.

“The American public needs to catch up fast on the reality of American politics,” said Katherine Stewart, the author of Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. “This isn’t about left vs. right or liberal vs. conservative. The present administration and its Nationalist Convention supporters represent a fanatical movement that does not believe in democracy, individual rights, rational discourse, or anything that actually made America great.”

Notes:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/national-convservatism-conference-trump

The murder of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy beyond belief for America. Even if one disagreed with every word spoken by Kirk, it was his right to utter those words. It is the right of every American to disagree with him. It is not the right of any human being to have taken his life in order to silence him.

We are a nation divided. As Abraham Lincoln said, quoting the Bible, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” This division has been exacerbated by President Trump, all starting with his attack on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Americans, you must come to realize that the man in the Oval Room has committed treason, not just on January 6th, but by his continuous disregard of the constitution: weaponizing the Justice Department, disregarding court orders, invoking wartime laws in peacetime, deployment of federal forces without cause, attempting to end birthright citizenship, the list is never-ending. Not to mention his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged involvement with his sex trafficking ring. Hopefully, that will be made clearer in the near future.

Americans, this may be your very last chance to save our nation; to save the nation that we love. Whether Democrat or Republican, you must stand up today and vote for a Congress and Senate that does not kiss the ring of the president. Vote for candidates who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe in. Ones that will force President Trump to obey the laws of our constitution, or, simply and definitively, impeach him.

The most important thing facing America, at the moment, “…is how to peacefully and lawfully rid America and the world of this menace.” Trump has as much interest in benefitting Americans as does a rat in a radiator. “We are dealing with a sociopath who is continuously seeking new ways to force others to reward him with personal wealth and total domination.”

“He has [committed] treason against the United States [and forgiven all of his fellow perpetrators] because he has betrayed the American Constitution and everything that America has stood for, for almost 250 years. In fact he is molding America into a police state, not unlike Russia.”

America, wake up! Your wealth is being bled off into the Trump family’s personal fortune. Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution “prohibits federal officials, including the president, from accepting gifts or titles from foreign states without congressional consent,” and Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 “ensures the president receives a fixed salary and cannot receive additional compensation from the U.S. or individual states.”

Yet, Mr. Trump has blatantly ignored these clauses since taking office. What do we call the gift of a plane from a foreign government? His expansion into the Middle East with his golf resort and hotels? The sale of his bitcoins? A potential Trump Tower in Moscow? All of these sending billions into the pockets of the Trumps as a result of his presidency.

Notes:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-172590699

other commentary by Askold Lozynskyj

Trump has only been in office for eight months but he has already destroyed the education system, the healthcare system, damaged our economy, done irreparable damage to the judicial system, stacked the Supreme Court in his favor, scared the Republican party into quiescence, destroyed America’s international relationships, the list goes on.

No country in the world trusts the United States any longer. And the alliances that have kept the United States and the rest of the world free of war for 50 years or more have all been destroyed by Trump in less than six months.

The man is not only a dictator, he’s a maniac.

Democrats, get off your asses and fight for the midterms and get us a Democratic Congress and Senate. Let us be rid of all of Trump’s ring kissers and take back our country. 

Shame on America.

Shame on the NRA.

Shame on the gun lobby.

Shame on the only country in the world with more guns than people on the streets.

Shame on a country that allows any sick in the head, angry person, of almost any age to buy a gun and to use it to shoot children and anyone else.

Shame on a country so venal that a few more dollars in the pockets of the gun manufacturers is worth pretending that the second amendment says anyone can have a gun. What the second amendment allows is the right to own a gun for the protection of your home. Even that should be subject to training, license, age, and any number of limitations.