Rick Wilson: A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King

[highplainsdem]

This is very long, but worth reading. (Unfortunately illustrated with AI slop art, which is foolish of Rick - it would have been better not to have any illo than use that tacky one - but the text he wrote is important.)

https://www.againstallenemies.net/p/a-declaration-of-independence-from

Donald J. Trump has driven this nation to the precipice. He has treated the Presidency not as a solemn charge, but as a personal franchise, an engine of revenge, profit, and personal protection. He has replaced law with loyalty, governance with grievance, and the impartial administration of justice with the crude satisfactions of retaliation. He has demonstrated his contempt for this Republic, its democratic principles, and its God-given Constitutional protections more times than we can recount; and his ongoing abuses endanger our continued existence as a nation of liberty and justice for all.

This is not a contest of ordinary politics. It is a trial of first principles: whether we remain a nation governed by laws, or submit to the dominion of one man’s will.

We therefore publish this declaration: that we will no longer varnish danger with polite phrases, nor soothe ourselves with the false comfort that every outrage is merely “how he is.” We will no longer accept the bankrupt doctrine that all factions are alike, while one faction endeavors to bend the whole apparatus of the state into a weapon against the people.

Donald Trump must depart the office he has dishonored, whether by the unlikely remedy of voluntary resignation, or by the sanction of impeachment and removal, or by the constitutional remedy of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

Much more at the link.

[SheltieLover]

1. Kick

[highplainsdem]

2. Rick's post on X. His Bluesky settings won't allow his Bluesky post to appear elsewhere.

Link to tweet

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Brilliantly done!

He summarizes the main negative themes of this administration and frames them in the Founder's terms. My hunch is that he's also predicted what becomes of the Mad King in the near future.