During Prohibition, Al Capone was the most notorious New York tough guy. He didn’t grasp fame until after he moved to Chicago. But in those days no one matched him.
In the 1950’s, during the Army–McCarthy hearings, another New York tough guy, a lawyer, Roy Cohn, sitting beside Fightin’ Joe McCarthy pilloried witnesses. McCarthy fumbled. Collapsed. Back in New York, Cohn went to work as a fixer for mafia kingpins like John Gotti.
In 1973 in a New York night club Cohn met Donald Trump. Became Trump’s fixer. Mentor.
Today, Trump’s the modern version of a New York tough guy. And no one matches him. He’s got an iron grip on the Republican Party like no other president. In Tennessee in a primary eleven Republicans just ran for Congress – four days before the primary Trump’s own pollster showed Matt Van Epps losing. Trump endorsed Epps. Epps won by 26 points.
A message rolled across Washington, tremors rattling Republican congressmen: Don’t cross Trump – you’ll pay a price.
That’s a lynchpin of New York tough guys’ power: Fear. But fear doesn’t end in healing.
That last sentence startles me. It's something a liberal with a crystal fetish might say, and I don't understand why it's tacked on here. Wrenn even titled this little piece "Healing," embracing that word as the thesis of his essay. But trumpism is not about healing, and never will be. Gangster-rule is a cancer in the Republic. Heal it? No, kill it before it kills you.
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You say he is a gangster, but he and his Administration are fervently searching for the 300,000 children BIDEN abandoned to pedophiles and child traffickers.
https://x.com/GenFlynn/status/1982780286472462428
SHAME on Democrats for enabling human trafficking.
Hound Dog has his condom on the wrong appendage.
Kristi Noem isn't looking for lost puppies.
Even MTG says "Release the X-files (Epstein and more)"
Too bad you're too inferiority complexed to demand entry
to the Reich's Chancellery Courtyard and see the monsters
Arno Breker has sculpted for your edification.
How will you feel when he pardons the convicted
pedophile, Ghislaine Maxwell? Do you like that he's cozied up her accommodations?
Looks like you've been huffing the insecticide again.
Hasn't happened. You're just grasping at straws. Probably her changed accommodations is from cooperating with the DOJ, a common practice. But I would prefer public execution instead.
Pedophiles and klansmen are the league in which you associate.
Typical ad hominem attack. You should try to do better.
You don't know what "ad hominem" means
You don't know the KKK were Democrats.
KKK endorsed TRump.
Democrats had a KKK as their majority leader in the Senate for years. Look up Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
KKK endorsed TRump. MAGA is unapologetically christian white nationalist.
Why shouldn't white Christians have their own country?
Why should white christians have their own country?
I think "Wolf" is a little sore that his old watauga conservative blog is now featuring his internal thought process 😂 😂 😂
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