Liberal Forum

August 17, 2023
One Year After Mar-a-Lago, Trump's MAGA Movement Won't Be Silenced
By Susan D. Harris 

It's been over a year since the unprecedented raid on former president Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, and nearly a year since I attended Trump's rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — his first rally after the raid.

Writing about that day, I called the rally a "pivotal moment in history."  One reason I believed this was because the events leading up to and including the raid were hallmarks of oppressive regimes the likes of which America had never witnessed before.  Likely referring to the arrest of ex–Trump adviser Peter Navarro and the phone confiscations of Trump associates like Mike Lindell, the Hoover Institution's Victor Davis Hanson said at the time:

Right now we don't have the rule of law in Washington. Whether you're targeted or exempt depends on your ideology[.] ... [T]he idea that you'd put [someone] in shackles, or confront him with his family and grab his phone is just ridiculous. ... When you start to do that, you don't have a democracy anymore, and I don't think we do.

Despite having heard about the persecution and imprisonment of January 6 attendees, many Americans didn't wake up to the realization that the current administration is using Soviet-style tactics to crush its political opponents until they heard the disturbing reports of the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

The crowd that gathered in Wilkes-Barre a month later knew that everything had changed.  They were there to passionately support the only leader they believed could pull the country back from the brink of collapsing into a banana republic.  Our suspicions had been confirmed that a politicized FBI and corrupt DOJ had been weaponized against Trump.  I can tell you there were more than a few of us who half-expected government-directed thugs to storm the Mohegan Sun Arena that day, handcuff Trump, and whisk him out the back door to languish in a D.C. gulag.  We were sure they would love to do this in front of his supporters as an intimidation tactic.  It was clear by that time that the corrupt power-grabbers weren't just after Trump; they were after regular Americans who dared support him.T

o that end, I wondered how the night would play out.  At one point, a large police presence could be seen lining the inside wall on the highest level of the arena.  As I ran through possible scenarios in my mind, I hypothesized that if some sort of law enforcement were tasked with arresting Trump, the crowd would certainly rush them.  That would be bad for those arresting him.  Or would it just give them an excuse to start firing on an unarmed crowd?  I never believed I would be having those thoughts at a political rally in the United States.

Thankfully the night ended with thousands of people holding hands and singing, long after President Trump had freely boarded his plane and flown into a beautiful Pennsylvania sunset.

One year later, despite an all-out legal assault of desperately contrived lawsuits and prosecutions, those same crowds are just as passionate and determined to seem him restored to the White House.

 
 

Conversely, Trump's accusers and detractors are still as passionate about hating him and his supporters.  Over at The Atlantic, one writer claims to
be intentionally "trying to better understand the mind of Trump supporters."  Portraying himself as the logical Mr. Spock who's just beamed down to analyze the mindless, dangerous MAGA monsters, writer Peter Wehner describes Trump as a "malignant figure" full of "moral depravity" and "ethical transgressions."  Wehner then unloads on the former president with rapid rounds of Trump Derangement Syndrome, ultimately concluding that

Trump-supporters suffer from cognitive dissonance.  He estimates that we are the end product of "doomscrolling" (reading large quantities of negative news online).  This doomscrolling turns us into fearful beings whose blurred minds have cast out intelligence, goodness, beauty, and truth.  Ironically, Wehner dares to quote Brave New World author Aldous Huxley to make this point, thus positioning those who want to "Make America Great Again" as the true destroyers of humanity.

These are antagonistic accusations and a heads-up to Trump-supporters that there is much that hasn't changed over the last year: more than 1,100 people have been hunted down and arrested for attending the January 6 rally in Washington; defendants in the D.C. gulag are still being denied due process; there have been no significant voting process changes that can ensure a fair national election in 2024; and one of the greatest conservative voices of our time, Tucker Carlson, was unceremoniously silenced on his largest platform.

In spite of all this, MAGA Americans refuse to give up on their country, even as the left pulls out every stop to put an end to Trump's bid for the White House.

One year to the day after the Mar-a-Lago raid, President Trump spoke to thousands who had waited in the pouring rain for hours in Windham, New Hampshire.  Days before, Trump had played to an even larger crowd in Erie, Pa., with immediate pushback from the media about the crowd size.  On August 12, the crowd he drew at the Iowa State Fair looked as impressive and fired up as ever.

Some are coming to the realization that the all-out legal assault may be backfiring: an opinion article in Newsweek observed, "Prosecuting Donald Trump Only Makes Him More Popular," and New York magazine recently ran a piece titled "Charging Trump Will Make Republicans Crazier."

It's clear that Trump-supporters continue to turn out in massive numbers, a fact made even more impressive when you consider how they've been forced to renavigate their social media communications compared to 2020.  It's also clear that the left is becoming increasingly desperate to silence those supporters and their constantly besieged leader as 2024 approaches.  It's imperative they not let their guard down as the powerful political elite continue to belittle — and attempt to subjugate — half of the country.
 

Hanson was right!!! This is how tyrannical, banana republic dim-0-craps treat those of the wrong ideology.  
GODDAMN DIM-0-CRAPS AND GODDAMN BRAINDEAD BIDEN!!!

A NATIONAL DISGRACE: Photos Leaked of Horrific January 6 Prisoner Abuse – Tortured 5 Months in Isolation in a Closet Room with Light on and a Bucket for a Toilet — Where are the ACLU, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch?

By Jim Hoft Aug. 17, 2023



A NATIONAL DISGRACE: January 6 prisoner Ryan Samsel pictured in the closet room he was held in for 5 months in isolation.
January 6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel has been held in prison without trial now since January 2021.

During his two-and-a-half years without trial Ryan has been moved around to 17 different facilities. Ryan has been beaten, abused, tortured, and neglected since his arrest in January 2021.

Earlier this week The Gateway Pundit received exclusive photos from Ryan Samsel’s prison cell at the FDC in Philadelphia. The cell was a size of a closet with a light on all of the time. The cell had a thin blue mattress, no sheets or blankets, no clothing, and he was kept here for five months straight.

The photos are just shocking. This is taking place in America today. This is who we are.

Ryan told The Gateway Pundit in a conversation this week, “I was kept in … a hard cell. And in that particular cell about five, six months. I even told you what was happening is the judge was actually calling, trying to get in contact with me because I wasn’t in a named cell. They were missing me and they were saying I wasn’t showing up to court. They were saying I wasn’t showing up to medical. But they were pretty much keeping me in there… Like I said, it was cold, the light was on, there’s zero window. And that followed me from Virginia. When I was in Virginia, it was the same exact conditions.”

** Please donate to help raise money for Ryan to pay his attorney here.

Ryan described the same situation in Virginia, “It was Central Regional Virginia Jail (CVRJ). I was kept in and they called it booking hard cell, which is you get zero phone, zero commissary, zero clothing because they think that you’re going to hang yourself and you’re on constant surveillance. You’re under surveillance constantly. The light has to be on 24/7. You’re locked in a cell. There is no getting out. The windows in Virginia were covered by a black mat, so you weren’t able to see. And it’s constant nothing. It’s deprivation of everything.”

Ryan told The Gateway Pundit that there are no books allowed, no letters, no photos. Nothing. The yellow bucket was his toilet.



Ryan believes the government tortured him for months so he would rat out the Proud Boys. They even beat Ryan numerous times and kept him locked down so he couldn’t communicate with anyone.

This torture is taking place in America today.

Where is the Republican Party?

Where is the ACLU, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch?

Please contact these organizations here:

** Contact ACLU

** Contact Amnesty International

** Contact Human Rights Watch

Ryan is not alone. Numerous January 6 prisoners have been held for months in torturous conditions, dozens have been sentenced to extreme sentences for non-violent crimes. This is a horrible chapter in American history. It must be confronted.
 
 

They just squeal louder.