“A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”

This quote taken from a social media post by Trump last weekend, calling for the termination of the U.S. Constitution, is only the latest indicator that this man is unfit for any public office in this democracy, much less the presidency.

Of course, by now we have to face the reality that Trump uses such inflammatory talk to intentionally draw attention to himself, and we ought by now to have recognized that providing undue exposure of such statements gives him the political oxygen he craves to carry on.

But, in this context, it also signals something else. It is the fact that Trump is effectively conceding this election and is instead going for a straightforward fascist coup. He is now intending to use such language as a signal to his base to trample all over the rule of law and civility in the coming period to make January 6, 2021 seem like a walk in the park.

This, I fear, is what the nation, and the world, is still not prepared for. While more lip service is being paid on some media platforms to the consistent lying by Trump, they are still not exploring the extent to which the elements for a coup by the end of this year are being put into place.

While the first order of business has to be the electoral defeat of Trump, and the necessity that it be by a proverbial landslide, attention also needs to be focused on the more subtle ways in which Trump supporters are developing right now a means for installing Trump by dishonest means at state electoral organization levels, with the final line of his defense being his U.S. Supreme Court.

It’s ironic that, at this late date following what happened on January 6, 2021 former Vice President Pence has finally come out to say he will not support Trump’s re-election bid. It is the delay in his basic decency, and in recognition of the fact that Trump had mobilized a mob to hang him that day, for goodness sake, that is indicative of the lazy response to the threat that Trump and his fascist movement represents, a kind of psychological laziness that fascist coup masterminds are depending upon.

On this score, the American people, a solid majority of them, I am convinced, are way ahead of the political and law enforcement organizers who need to be mobilized against this very real threat. The voters will give Kamala Harris the clear majority at the ballot box this fall, but that is only part of what needs to happen to prevent the next coming coup attempt.

As a nation, we still have not really come to grips with some of the unpleasant realities of January 6, such as the failure of key law enforcement arms to be there to put down the riot that day. How cleared are we of potential elements in law enforcement and even the military that might be preparing to uphold the stealing of the election in support of Trump?

While some news organizations are reporting on the pathetic self-serving sentiments of those in corporate America backing Trump with their billions, others are doing his movement’s bidding by slanted coverage that, most of all, is now working overtime to sanitize Trump’s remarks and behavior, as for example by conceding to shutting down the mics during next week’s debate. And whatever happened to all the criticism of presidential candidates being too old to run, as was the relentless dumbest when President Biden was in the face. By such standards, isn’t Trump way too old? But nobody is saying a thing about that.

By now we should not be surprised that the major media is wholly complicit in the effort to put Trump back into power. When is Wolf Blitzer ever going to wake up to the fact that history, if there will be one, will not be kind to him for his role in this treachery? He and many others in the major media.

Heaven help us.