Gaetz, the man who would be king of the House, is no longer a candidate for "Red Caesarism" leadership: Who is left ? Will Putin support it ?
The person whom I was expecting to crown himself the Red Caesar" amid the possible ruins of any policy for defense of Ukraine, is now on the verge of being kicked out of the house for his last weeks conduct
We have few heroes in the House whom will stand up for our country as was done by the Ukrainian who said "glory to Ukraine" and was murdered for it, but still though Gaetz is on a fast track to being ousted
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One Republican lawmaker pointed to the ongoing Ethics Committee investigation into Gaetz, warning if he wasn’t cleared, he could get expelled by those who want him gone.“We want him out,” the member said.
The investigation is reportedly looking into allegations that Gaetz may have engaged in sexual misconduct, illicit drug use or other misconduct.
Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich is also reporting House Republicans are preparing to move on Gaetz, pending the outcome of the ethics report.
“No one can stand him at this point,” an unnamed House Republican told Heinrich. “A smart guy without morals.”
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Its not just a lack of morals, i.e. Gaetz was a leading candidate for the Red Caesar position, by some of MAGA to allegedly purge the USA: and here is what I am referring to
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Slack, a politics professor at the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan, made conspiratorial and extreme arguments now common on the antidemocratic right, that “transgenderism, anti-white racism, censorship, cronyism … are now the policies of an entire cosmopolitan class that includes much of the entrenched bureaucracy, the military, the media, and government-sponsored corporations”.
In a discussion of possible responses to this conspiracy theory, he wrote that the “New Right now often discusses a Red Caesar, by which it means a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people”.
For the last three years, parts of the American right have advocated a theory called Caesarism as an authoritarian solution to the claimed collapse of the US republic in conference rooms, podcasts and the house organs of the extreme right, especially those associated with the Claremont Institute thinktank.
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Would Putin go for it ? Seriously ?
Here is why Trump is no longer a candidate for being "red Caesar"
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The civil fraud trial is set to get underway today to see just how large of financial penalties Donald Trump will receive for his years long pattern of financial fraud. That’s right, the judge has already ruled that Trump committed the fraud, and the trial is strictly to dole out punishment; Trump literally can’t win it.
After Trump spent Sunday whining about golf and talking about how he didn’t want to get eaten by a shark (no really, this happened), it’s now hitting him that tomorrow marks the beginning of his financial destruction. Right around midnight Trump began ranting on social media about his trial, and let’s just say that Trump isn’t in the best headspace.
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So if Trump is not the Red Caesar, then WHOM will Putin support for that "job"?
It's Putin's dream to have authoritarian rule in America. Trump is increasingly non viable for it. So, if Ukraine dies, in violence, due to the Freedom Caucus whom will Putin try to anoint after destroying Ukraine, if he has his way in order to give the coup De Grace to ruin America ?
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House Republicans Reportedly Looking to Expel Gaetz By Using Findings from Upcoming Ethics Report: ‘No One Can Stand Him’
As Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) launches his rebellion against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), multiple reports indicate that House Republicans are looking to get rid of the Florida congressman altogether.
According to a report from CNN, an unnamed House Republican said that the caucus wants Gaetz gone — and that they may use the findings from the ongoing Ethics Committee investigation into the Florida congressman to oust him.
From the report:
One Republican lawmaker pointed to the ongoing Ethics Committee investigation into Gaetz, warning if he wasn’t cleared, he could get expelled by those who want him gone.“We want him out,” the member said.
The investigation is reportedly looking into allegations that Gaetz may have engaged in sexual misconduct, illicit drug use or other misconduct.
Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich is also reporting House Republicans are preparing to move on Gaetz, pending the outcome of the ethics report.
“No one can stand him at this point,” an unnamed House Republican told Heinrich. “A smart guy without morals.”
Gaetz responded to that report with a post on X, the platform previously known as Twitter:
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Also, see this
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‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening
Argument for a ‘red Caesar’ to rule US may seem esoteric but conservative thinktank behind idea has connections to Trump
Sun 1 Oct 2023 10.00 EDT
In June, rightwing academic Kevin Slack published a book-length polemic claiming that ideas that had emerged from what he called the radical left were now so dominant that the US republic its founders envisioned was effectively at an end.
Slack, a politics professor at the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan, made conspiratorial and extreme arguments now common on the antidemocratic right, that “transgenderism, anti-white racism, censorship, cronyism … are now the policies of an entire cosmopolitan class that includes much of the entrenched bureaucracy, the military, the media, and government-sponsored corporations”.
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In a discussion of possible responses to this conspiracy theory, he wrote that the “New Right now often discusses a Red Caesar, by which it means a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people”.
For the last three years, parts of the American right have advocated a theory called Caesarism as an authoritarian solution to the claimed collapse of the US republic in conference rooms, podcasts and the house organs of the extreme right, especially those associated with the Claremont Institute thinktank.
Though on the surface this discussion might seem esoteric, experts who track extremism in the US say that due to their influence on the Republican party, the rightwing intellectuals who espouse these ideas about the attractions of autocracy present a profound threat to American democracy.
Their calls for a “red Caesar” are now only growing louder as Donald Trump, whose supporters attempted to violently halt the election of Joe Biden in 2020, has assumed dominant frontrunner status in the 2024 Republican nomination race. Trump, who also faces multiple criminal indictments, has spoken openly of attacking the free press in the US and having little regard for American constitutional norms should he win the White House again.
The idea that the US might be redeemed by a Caesar – an authoritarian, rightwing leader – was first broached explicitly by Michael Anton, a Claremont senior fellow and Trump presidential adviser.
Anton has been an influential rightwing intellectual since in 2016 penning The Flight 93 Election, a rightwing essay in which he told conservatives who were squeamish about Trump “charge the cockpit or you die”, referencing one of the hijacked flights of 9/11.
He gave Caesarism a passing mention in that essay, but developed it further in his 2020 book, The Stakes, defining it as a “form of one-man rule: halfway … between monarchy and tyranny”.
The Guardian contacted Anton at his Claremont Institute email address, but received no response.
Anton and others in the Claremont milieu are not simply hypothesizing about the future: their dreams of Caesar arise from their dark view of the US.
Anton wrote the scene-setting essay in Up From Conservatism, an anthology of essays published this year and edited by the executive director of Claremont’s Center for the American Way of Life, Arthur Milikh.
In that essay Anton writes baldly that “the United States peaked around 1965”, and that Americans are ruled by “a network of unelected bureaucrats … corporate-tech-finance senior management, ‘experts’ who set the boundaries of acceptable opinion, and media figures who police those boundaries”.
His diagnosis of US social and cultural life unfolds under a series of subheadings that are almost comical in their disillusionment: “The universities have become evil”, “Our economy is fake”, “The people are corrupt”, “Our civilization has lost the will to live”.
Damon Linker, a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and an author of several books on the American right, was early in noticing the extreme right’s drift towards Caesarism.
Linker told the Guardian that Anton and others in the Claremont milieu “have convinced themselves thoroughly that the current order is decadent, corrupt and far removed from the proper, admirable origins of American government”.
Linker said their current view is related to a long-held position among Claremont scholars that “democracy as they understand has been supplanted by bureaucrats and entrenched executive branch departments”.
“The fact that Trump lost in 2020 has just radicalized a lot of these people – it occurred to them that they might not win a proper election again,” he said.
“That would mean that – excuse the language–they’re shit out of luck unless there’s some other path to power. That’s where Caesarism comes in.”
If Trump wins in 2024, does he listen to people like Michael Anton about the need to perhaps cancel the next election?
Damon Linker
Linker said that the danger in such ideas is not that the American people will actively choose a dictatorship, but more in how they might shape the rightwing response to a future emergency.
“If Trump wins in 2024, what does the opposition do, and how does he respond?” Linker speculated. “Does he send in the troops? Does that lead to bigger protests?”
“If he then declares martial law, do these ideas prepare people in the Republican party to say, ‘Well, we need law and order’?,” Linker asked.
“Does Trump then listen to people like Michael Anton and his friends about the need to perhaps cancel the next election?”
Underlining this danger is the fact that Caesarism has won converts beyond Claremont as a solution to perceived decadence and the declining electoral appeal of far-right ideas.
Charles Haywood, a former industrialist the Guardian exposed last month as the founder of a secretive fraternal lodge and a would-be warlord, wrote in 2021 that “I like, if not love, the idea of Red Caesar” since “Caesarism, and its time-legitimated successor, monarchy, is a natural, realism-based system, under which a civilization can flourish”.
The idea has been lodged in the broader sphere of conservative debate in rightwing writer Stephen Wolfe’s book The Case for Christian Nationalism, in which he proposes a “Christian prince” whose rule would be “a measured and theocratic Caesarism”, and might perhaps be installed by “a just revolution” against secular rule.
Caesarism and other antidemocratic ideas bemuse many observers, including some with whom they might otherwise share common ground.
Thomas Merrill is a political theorist and an associate professor at American University in Washington DC, who has written critically on the Claremont Institute, but from a broadly conservative perspective.
“We’re cousins,” he said of Claremont intellectuals in a telephone conversation, “and sometimes you have to ask your cousin, what the hell are you doing?”
He said that the authoritarian drift exhibited in work like Anton’s was an example of “the Claremont guys shooting themselves in the foot”. For Merrill, while he agrees that the ideas are dangerous, he thinks they have an air of compensatory fantasy.
“They’re selling a very dark picture of the world to conservative donors without going out and doing the hard work of democratic politics.”
For Linker, the author and lecturer, a far-right dictatorship remains “a tail-end, worst-case scenario”, but one that is more realistic in the US now than it has been for many decades.
“Thirty years ago, if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the wings to impose a dictatorship on the United States, you would have said that I was insane,” he said.
“But it’s no longer insane. It’s now real. There are those people out there,” Linker added. “The question is: will they get their chance.”
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And see this
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The civil fraud trial is set to get underway today to see just how large of financial penalties Donald Trump will receive for his years long pattern of financial fraud. That’s right, the judge has already ruled that Trump committed the fraud, and the trial is strictly to dole out punishment; Trump literally can’t win it.
After Trump spent Sunday whining about golf and talking about how he didn’t want to get eaten by a shark (no really, this happened), it’s now hitting him that tomorrow marks the beginning of his financial destruction. Right around midnight Trump began ranting on social media about his trial, and let’s just say that Trump isn’t in the best headspace.
Trump now insists that he’s going to attend today’s trial in order to “fight for my name and reputation” in the face of a “Trump Hating Judge who is unfair, unhinged, and vicious.” Well okay then. In other words, Trump understands that he’s already lost this trial.
Trump also added this: “The judge, Arthur Engoron, refuses to accept our big win in the Court of Appeals, nullifying much of the case that the racist Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, has charged us with.” To be clear, this did not happen. The Court of Appeals recently ordered that the trial begin on time. Trump added “Nobody can believe it!” Yeah, nobody can believe it because it didn’t happen. This guy is a goner.
Remember, nothing that Donald Trump does in this trial can help him. He’s already lost the case. He can show up, but it won’t change anything. He can testify, but that’ll probably only make things worse for him and result in even larger penalties. The legal system laughs in the face of the petty grandstanding that Trump is now attempting. It’s a surefire way to make things even worse for yourself.
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Andrew Beckwith, PhD