In late October of 2024, just a few days before the most direly fateful election in American History, I wrote about the book, "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt although I had not fully read the book. At that time I was reading and studying intensely, writing as much on this blog as I could, and doing everything in my power to help prevent the return of TRAITOR Trump to the White House. Sadly, all that could be done by several hundred thousand to a few million writers like myself, that incredible dangerous election was lost and TRAITOR Trump was returned to his occupation of the White House. "Occupation" is a word I use in the military sense. The White House is now "occupied" by a TRAITOR and the Criminal Syndicate he is constructing with the aid of the Right Wing Radical Repugnican congress. Now is an appropriate time to fully rexamine the book "How Democracies Die". At no time since the day Fort Sumter was fired upon by Confderate forces has America and American Democracy been in more danger. This book is one of many by competent authors in America which can point out the dangers and show us all the ways we need to work in order to save our nation. I state for the record that I have now fully read the book, slowly, thoroughly, and thoughtfully. The original edition of this book was published in 2018, The current edition of the book which I am discussing today was published in paperback format in 2020 due to the fact that it was a best seller and the upcoming election of 2020 made it both necessary and advantageous for the authors and publisher to reissue the book in paperback due to the danger being presented to the country by TRAITOR Trump at that time. Today, that danger does not just persist. It exists now in an even more virulent form than four years ago. We now have seen several million American voters ignore the warnings of dozens of major public figures who have worked closely with TRAITOR Trump actually using the words "Fascist" and "Facism" to describe him and his goals. During the 2024 election campaign TRAITOR Trump has discussed jailing his political enemies, deporting millions of hard working immigrants, destroying several branches of the US government, and even acting as a "dictator on the first day" which he has and will continue to do as long as the populace allow it. Now that the tragedy of his actual election has occurred and his TREASONOUS crimes are happening by the hour it is long past time for every decent American to step up and do whatever is in their power to put an end to this TREASON. TRAITOR Trump has even exceeded his own previous levels of fascist speech by stating on multiple occasions that Liz Cheney, one of only two Republicans in the entire country fit to hold public office at any level, should be forced to face "nine rifles pointed at her face". Despite preemptive pardons of all the members of the January 6th congressional committee by President Biden, all their lives are now in danger. That danger to those patriots from the committee has been greatly increased due to the absolutely TREACHEROUS pardons to the January 6th TRAITORS. The only bright spots in that arena are the fact that one of them is now on the run in Texas after being charged with criminally soliciting a juvenile, another has been killed by a police officer after having resisted arrest, and a handful have admitted their guilt and refused the pardons. At some point, some of those January 6th TRAITORS will construct and attempt to carry out a plot against Liz Cheney or some other member(s) of the January 6th Committee and that is a primary reason they were pardoned. We are seeing military planes and personnel being utilized to deport hundreds of hard working immigrants and that number is growing every day in a manner, with the use of the military on American soil, that many constitutional scholars say is unconstitutional. In the United States, as Donald Trump's campaign against immigration intensifies, it is sweeping untold numbers of undocumented workers of all backgrounds into the arms of ICE agents, loading them onto airplanes, and forcing their native countries to accept them through the threat of such things as loss of foreign aid and even military intervention These kinds of actions by TRAITOR Trump and his allies are clearly fascist in nature. While this book was reissued in 2020, recent statements about his fascist tendencies by several American generals who have worked closely with TRAITOR Trump fully support what the authors have said about him and his danger to the country. In a politically related book, Bob Woodward's new release, "War", tells a story of meeting General Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at a party: We have got to stop him!” Milley said. “You have got to stop him!” By “you” he meant the press broadly. “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country.” His eyes darted around the room filled with 200 guests of the Cohen Group, a global business consulting firm headed by former defense secretary William Cohen. Cohen and former defense secretary James Mattis spoke at the reception. “A fascist to the core!” Milley repeated to me. I will never forget the intensity of his worry." (The Atlantic, October 16, 2024, "The General's Warning". https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/10/the-generals-warning/680279/ ) In "How Democracies Die", the authors discussed several important tendencies toward fascism in TRAITOR Trump which we are now seeing in full blown practice. In the next to last chapter of the book which is entitled "Trump Against The Guardrails" they discuss how he had the tendency at the time of their original publication in 2018, and the republication date in 20202, to become every dangerous and criminal thing he is today...and more. One of the signs of impending fascism which they discuss in the book is what they call attacks on "the referees", those people such as judges, inspectors general, and others who guarantee ongoing democracy. Just two days ago, on January 25, 2025, TRAITOR Trump illegally fired 15 inspectors general from their government agencies. Federal law requires that before an inspector general can be fired a thirty day notice must be given to the congress. That notice was never given and, sadly, we have a congressional majority in both houses of congress which are so deeply involved in his TREASON that they will never ask for it or require it. The congressional leaders will also use congressional rules to stymie any effort the minority Democrats attempt to utilize to require that notice or any oversight on their part to require any form of general compliance with the laws of the land. He also attacks judges on a daily basis. He has also contructed, with the help of the Project 2025 criminals, a so-called "cabinet" list of people who are markedly and universally unqualified to be in any positions of public trust at any level. These coconspirators will be assuming the jobs, with the assistance of the Right Wing Radical Repugnican congress, of the highest level referees in the government, and they are being placed in those jobs solely because they are willing to destroy the agencies. The authors discuss in the book "also mounted efforts to sideline key players in the political system" during the years he was illegally occupying the White House the first time. Today, key players such as resistant memnbers of congress are being openly threatened with being opposed in upcoming elections, impeachment, and violence is even being encouraged against them. Benito Mussolini would not have been any more blatant in his practice of fascism than TRAITOR Trump. THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS! I WILL COMPLETE IT IN A DAY OR SO. PLEASE COME BACK IN A DAY OR TWO AND SEE THE CONCLUDING SECTION.