Tomorrow, July 4, is the 250th (Semiquincentennial) Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, establishing a Republic and condemning Monarchy.
Now, tragically, America and the world face the most corrupt, unethical, immoral, and abusive Presidency in its history, with the threats well established of the damages and danger Donald Trump and his sycophants have brought to undermine American domestic and foreign policy.
The revelation of Trump’s unprecedented enrichment as President, more than $2 billion in the first year of his second term, while tens of millions of Americans have lost their health care;
have faced mounting economic hardship;
have confronted pure racism, nativism, misogyny, and promotion of extremist Christian white supremacy nationalism;
have faced arrest and prosecution without the protection of the Bill of Rights;
have faced the danger of illegal obstruction of the upcoming elections for Congress in 2026 and the Presidency in 2028;
faced the undermining of a multitude of government agencies and endangering American democracy, the rule of law, and national security and international alliances;
and so many other violations of law, morals, ethics, and constitutional norms that it is impossible to list all of them in a brief essay.
NO President or his administration comes close to the level of corruption, malfeasance, immorality, and lack of ethics of Donald Trump.
The most corrupt administration before Donald Trump is clearly Richard Nixon.
And there were disgraceful evidence of corruption also in other Presidencies—specifically, in chronological order:
Ulysses S. Grant
Warren G. Harding
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush
with all of these Presidents being Republicans in party affiliation.
But none of these Presidents, other than Nixon, were so personally involved in scandals, while presiding over them, and therefore, having to be criticized and condemned for the people who served under them who engaged in abuses of power.
Even Richard Nixon, as much as he was horrendous in so many ways, accomplished some major positives, and knew when it was time to resign, and had a Republican Party who forced his hand, unlike the 2026 Republican Party which is unwilling to take action against the abuses and corruption that mounts daily.
This major historical moment, while very much in the midst of negative and horrible events, must be a clarion call for all decent Americans to resist the movement toward Fascism and acceptance of a new Monarchy, which was rejected in 1776, and must be vehemently opposed in very way imaginable in the coming weeks, months, and years!