I wrote this piece nearly four years ago to the day, 8 November 2019, and offered it for publication to no avail. Though no longer timely, it is still relevant, as the dishonest personal, political, and anti-legal persecution of Donald Trump rages on. Thus, I share it here and now. Thank God for Substack.
“As one falls, two more will take their place,” tweeted Mark Zaid, an attorney representing the leaker-cum-whistleblower at the center of the quasi-impeachment fiasco of Representative Adam Schiff’s Democrats. He so tweeted with the hashtag “#coup has started” ten days after Donald Trump was inaugurated President of the United States. How appropriate is Zaid’s identification with the Hydra motto from the popular Captain America films, “Cut off one head, two more shall take its place”?
Hydra is the research division of the Nazi Party. It is headed by Johann Shmidt described as “a brilliant scientist,” “ambitious,” and a “member of the inner circle” of Hitler. As such Schmidt seizes a unique opportunity to physicalize his meglomania by injecting himself with Dr. Abraham Erskine’s formula or serum, against the doctor’s will, to make himself the super man worthy of seizing for himself a power left in the earth by the gods. The formula, not yet perfected and yet capable of intensifying the good or bad in a person, renders Shmidt a monster, the Red Skull, who has outgrown the Nazis and intends to take control of the whole world with his Hydra minions. With the seeming demise of Red Skull and the defeat of the Axis powers, Hydra goes underground as a parasite within S.H.I.E.L.D., an organization created to protect the homeland after the war. Hydra eventually emerges as an elite subversive globalist element poised to save the world by identifying and destroying all people on earth who may resist control by Hydra.
Back to Mark Zaid. Apparently, the one who fell to be replaced by two more was Sally Yates, who was fired by President Trump because she would not enforce his temporary travel ban on immigrants from recognized terrorist areas. Ms. Yates also played an active role in the events that brought about the firing and prosecution of General Michael Flynn. An Obama holdover, she ran the Department of Justice during the heady days of transition from the Obama to the Trump administration when unexplained unmaskings, and the Steele Dossier, and the FISA warrants based on it were swirling about the scenes populated by the likes of James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, and James Clapper.
In Hydra fashion they have deemed themselves justified to illegally remove Mr. Trump from office despite the 63 million people, 306 electors, and 30 states that legally elected him.
From these worthies arose the Russia-collusion hoax so embarrassingly exposed for the sham that it was by the worthless 35-million-dollar, two-year Mueller investigation and subsequent testimony. In addition, the Democrats and their deep-state allies have served up Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti; the Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr.; the vicious, ridiculous attacks on Brett Kavanaugh; the emolument accusations; and now the risible–but for the natural seriousness that would attend these matters were they being raised with the appropriate sincerity and gravity–Ukrainian phone call impeachment. And that leads us to more tweets.
Besides the tweet mentioned above, Mr. Zaid has tweeted:
•January 30, 2017: “#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will follow ultimately. #lawyers”
•July 1, 2017: “It’s very scary. We will get rid of him, and this country is strong enough to survive even him and his supporters. We have to.”
•July 2017: “I predict @CNN will play a key role in @realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president.”
An accomplished lawyer, Mr. Zaid ought to know that a coup is an illegal seizure of power from a government. The situation that apparently warrants this violation of the rule of law for Mr. Zaid and his conspirators is the legal election of Donald Trump President of the United States.
Who is Donald Trump, and who are those who elected him, to think that by virtue of a legitimate American election he can come from the outside and direct the United States executive branch according to the values he laid before the American people and was thereby elected?
Thus do Mr. Zaid and his conspirators arrogate unto themselves the right to rule due to their superiority, as does Hydra’s Red Skull. In Hydra fashion they have deemed themselves justified to illegally remove Mr. Trump from office despite the 63 million people, 306 electors, and 30 states that legally elected him. They know, better than we do, what is good for us, which, in the end, is whatever it takes for them to hold power over us. They are inside the government as Hydra is inside S.H.I.E.L.D., part of the deep state, the establishment, the permanent government. The established power is theirs, working from within, behind the scenes, largely unscrutinized, largely unchecked, until the time comes for them to take over power in, say, a coup. Like Hydra they subscribe to more of a global than a national outlook, enlisting Russians, Ukrainians, Brits, Aussies, and Italians, and who knows who else, in their coup against a duly elected American. They give credence to Dr. Erskine’s rationale for choosing Steve Rogers, “a little guy,” “a weak man” to receive his serum: “Because a strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.”
And Dr. Erskine tells Rogers that he must promise, on the eve of his attaining power, that he will stay who he is, “not a perfect soldier, but a good man.” That good man will become Captain America, a man who fights for the ideals of the United States of America: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; limited government based on the premise of self-government.
So, given that Mr. Zaid has spoken for his conspirators in the words of Hydra, how does their targeted enemy shape up as the Captain America figure. We start, of course, with the recognition that no one is good but God alone. Still there are varying degrees of goodness in each of us. Even in President Trump, despite the Media’s treatment of him.
In his humility, Donald Trump does not wish to rule over but rather to free the individual citizens of the United States from the oppression of the deep state to rule themselves according to the common sense inherent in the policies he is putting forward despite the commitment of Mr. Zaid and his conspirators to try to stop him with their never-ending coup.
Like Cap, President Trump puts the USA first. He has committed materially to the defense of the USA in a world of threats unheeded by globalists. He has committed to the protection of American citizenship. He has committed to the protection of the most vulnerable among us, the unborn. He has stripped down many of the encumbrances to economic achievement and has thus unshackled millions, especially minorities, to put their talents to good use in their rightful pursuit of happiness. At the same time he has protected the USA from globalists schemes, like the Paris Climate Accords, that hamstring American achievement so that countries with less or no regard for human rights can advance at America’s expense.
And he has committed to something that Mr. Zaid and his deep-state conspirators do not have eyes to see, as Red Skull was blinded from seeing in Captain America. After Red Skull accuses Cap of “doing” arrogance better than anyone and then claims that Dr. Erskine had denied him what was “rightfully his,” the serum, because he resented his genius, he asks Cap why Erskine deemed him “so special” that he gave him “everything.” And Cap responds, “Nothin’, I’m just a kid from Brooklyn,” the honest answer that infuriates Red Skull into a rage that demands Cap’s destruction.
Substitute Queens for Brooklyn in a response from Trump and therein lies the basis for the maddening rage on the part of Trump’s opposition: Pride, one of the seven deadly sins, the root sin of all sin. Who is Donald Trump, and who are those who elected him, to think that by virtue of a legitimate American election he can come from the outside and direct the United States executive branch according to the values he laid before the American people and was thereby elected? Who is he to threaten the conspirators’ permanent-government globalism, socialism, nepotism, bureaucracy? Who is he to challenge the status quo in a nudge back to limited government, self-government, patriotism, individual rights, citizenship? An outsider from Queens, a non-politician, a non-statist, a patriot? Cannot be allowed! Thus the coup, the rising of two for everyone who falls. They must not allow the citizen government, the representative government, the limited government, the reliance on self-government on which this nation was founded because it deprives them of power, control, domination, supremacy.
And it is this arrogance that blinds them to what may well be President Trump’s most important virtue, humility. The kid from Queens, however rough around the edges, doesn’t set himself up above the people, to rule over the people, to work outside the rule of law. He identifies with the people who want to work and earn and raise their kids in a world that loves what is good, that makes sense, unlike the left-wing policies that so damage our country as evidenced in places like Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, and all of California. In his humility, Donald Trump does not wish to rule over but rather to free the individual citizens of the United States from the oppression of the deep state to rule themselves according to the common sense inherent in the policies he is putting forward despite the commitment of Mr. Zaid and his conspirators to try to stop him with their never-ending coup.
Thank you,
P. A. Ritzer
Copyright © 2019 by P. A. Ritzer
The Coup, Impeachment, and Hydra