On the anniversary of Nazi Germany's Kristallnacht -- a massive, two-day raid on Jews in 1938, America's boastful new breed of proto-fascists (call them orange shirts, since orange is the new brown) already are talking about keeping a comprehensive Trump enemies list. I'm talking about you, Trump surrogate Omarosa Manigault (see link above).
This list would have to be much larger than the hair-club-for-president-elect's itty-bitty but growing revenge list of journalists who have wronged him. And the orange shirts perhaps have a ready-made start: They can simply read our disdainful blog posts, although, if you are in a private group, Trump operatives may have to get Russian intelligence to hack the data. Quck, someone ring up Attorney General-in-Waiting Rudy Giuliani.
"It's so great our enemies are making themselves clear so that when we get in to the White House, we know where we stand," said Manigault, a former reality show contestant. Of course she is.
Well, Ms. Manigault, put me on your wet dream of a watch list. Then I'll be in good company, because it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the Trump SS would be pleased to identify all 60 million of us who voted for Clinton. By the way and by latest count, those voters outnumbered Trump voters by about 200,000 nationwide. So, dear orange shirts, let's try to avoid fist fights, shall we? Because we’d be bringing along more friends.
And while I intend no threats, I would point out that many of us raving liberals own guns. I hate to re-state that, because in the Trump-o-Verse that's obviously, well, "Wrong!"
All the same, in the interest of your own safety, Mr. Orange Shirt, don't presume you can with impunity (not the same thing as immunity) bash down our front doors with Trumped-up warrants for engaging in seditious activities, such as voting Democratic. It could get messy. Maybe best to institute some serious gun control measures. Even get our names from those beefed-up background checks!
Besides, if the prez-elect thinks he can round up and deport perhaps 11 million undocumented immigrants, he'll have to do a lot more thinking as to how to keep track of or remove another 60 million U.S. undesirables. Lock 'em up! Think of all the new corrections jobs! There'll be so much winning! Also, so much police state.
Maybe The Don could to so far as to require these 60 million suspicious characters to carrry papers, or submit them to mandatory, subcutaneous microchipping. They make better pets that way, and I don't mean Playboy pets (nudge-nudge, wink-wink).
But it may be too late for the Trump SS. On election night the Canadian government immigration service web site crashed under a surge of Google searches on "moving to Canada." I kid you not
Hey, Mr. Prez-Elect, here’s a way around that: Give us loyal American opponents a cash grant to get out of your way, and I expect a sizable number of Clinton voters will make that move all on their own.
Sure, such grants would boost Trump administration deficits, but that's old news, given that your election-cycle proposals, if you actually plan to implement them, will, according to budget analysts, run the national debt into additional tens of trillions of dollars, anyway. So, no big whoop. Have at us, then! Show you our papers! And: Be seeing you!