Nance Malcolm W. - The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It

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For 243 years these United States of America have endured the terrifying forge of enlightened revolution to emerge a new nation filled with chaotic compromises and a spirit of limitless possibility. The successful revolution that bested a global superpower instilled in all who called themselves American an unquenchable passion for liberty, a white-hot ardor for freedom. These peopleswho held dear the experiment of American democracy in a new republic, arrived at these shores to worship the God of their choice, and came together in community when suffering struckexpanded their vision until it reached the Pacific Ocean.

Our founding fathers, though men of flesh and blood often steeped in shameless hypocrisy and sometimes too self-serving in their ambitious seeking of land or comfort, still created a globally unique political ideology, which started with the words: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

In the two and a half centuries since these words were written, we have come to accept the sanctimony of excluding women, people of color, and Native Americans, the latter exposed to violence and disease. Yet the founding fathers boldly wrote this single idea of common equality, knowing that their sins would eventually be exposed to history and that their misdeeds and errors would be undone by their progeny. They drafted these words knowing that time would temper the hot iron of a young, brash, and passionate nation. Given time and reason, America would transform into an enlightened ideal where those words would not just ring true but would be the basis for a nation of all men and women, even of those whose lands had been stolen and those who had arrived in bondage.

In two and a half centuries, America has faced a fractious civil war, unbridled imperial greed, slaughtering world wars, near national starvation, a civil-rights reckoning, an international ideological struggle, and a final embrace of equality and global economic prosperity. From thirteen small states, America became a nation unrivaled in history, one that took in the worlds immigrants and refugees to create a country whose greatness is proclaimed in three Latin words: E pluribus unum. From many, one.

America is the greatest power the world has ever seen simply because it harnesses the strengths of all those who seek her bounty. A nation where the transgressions of the parents could always be atoned for by the children who stood firm to refine the American promise.

America has been a place where goodness, compassion, and kindness were the noblest of goals, where character, erudition, and empathy were the hallmarks of our national leaders. It held these values dear until the inner hatred of some rejected the simple act of electing a black man as our first citizen. His mistake was to try to bind the nation by giving the poorest health care, the gift of life, and with it a greater opportunity for liberty.

On November 9, 2016, and on every day since the election of Donald J. Trump, a narcissistic scoundrel of a con-man turned opportunistic politician, this once great nation has been on a brakeless descent into a seemingly unending hellscape of national despair. Sixty percent of our countrymen and women, especially those of color, Native Americans, and the poor, are ignored by a scalawag whose only love is for himself and his billionaire friends. It is heartrending that Trump has convinced a cavalcade of sunshine patriots and the misguided desperate to believe that they could be masters above all others if they just embrace hatred and violence and make him their petty tyrant.

Malcolm Nance reveals in these pages how Trump violated the oath of office after having been elected with the assistance of our foreign enemies and a disgraceful alliance of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and congressional toadies who may best be called fifth columnists. All of these so-called citizens allowed Trump free rein to transform America from a constitutional republic to a constitutional autocracy, with our beloved national contract a mere fig leaf. Nance outlines the long, disgraceful journey into the wretched, putrid bilge of Trumps nascent authoritarianism. It lays bare the plan to enrich himself at the expense of Americas national security and his mad desire to mimic the ironfisted rule of his peers: a ruthless Russian dictator, a North Korean mass murderer, and an assortment of communist autocrats.

I hope I inspired a few of you in my role as Josiah Bartlett, the fictional president in the TV series The West Wing, when he said:

We did not expect nor did we invite a confrontation with evil. Yet the true measure of a peoples strength is how they rise to master that moment when it does arrive but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and were reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars.