On October 4, 1943, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler addressed SS officers stationed in Posen, Poland, about the ongoing campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe.
Himmler intended to alert Reich officials of the extermination campaign the Schutzstaffel (“Protective Squads”)—otherwise known as the SS—and Wehrmacht (German army) had been waging since June, 1941.
The purpose: To make his listeners accessories to his monumental crimes—and to warn them there was no turning back.
Heinrich Himmler
Either Nazi Germany won the war that its Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, had unintentionally unleashed on September 1, 1939—or its topmost officials would themselves face extinction as war criminals.
Said Himmler:
“I want to also mention a very difficult subject before you, with complete candor. It should be discussed amongst us, yet nevertheless, we will never speak about it in public. I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people.
“It is one of those things that is easily said: ‘The Jewish people is being exterminated.’…Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when 500 are there or when there are 1,000. And to have seen this through and—with the exception of human weakness—to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned….”
Fast forward 83 years—to June 26, 2026.
On that day, Mike Johnson (R-LA), Speaker of the House of Representatives, issued a warning about what Republicans stood to lose if Democrats won control of Congress in the upcoming November 3 midterm elections.
He did so at the annual Road to Majority Conference sponsored by the Right-wing Faith and Freedom Coalition:
“If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats, y’all, impeachment’s not even the biggest concern. They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they’ll go after the president’s family, the Cabinet, his donors and friends—half of you in this room will be targeted.”
Mike Johnson
Johnson expressed worry over recent primary wins by Democratic Socialist candidates in New York City, then warned, “This is a midterm unlike any other. Not only because of the threats that we face that are very real and must be confronted, but it’s because of a lot of reasons on paper why we should win.
“I run the protection program. I’ll take care of you, okay?”
This was clearly a reference to the Justice Department’s Witness Security Program for organized crime informants. But that program requires career criminals to serve justice by helping to convict their former accomplices.
Johnson’s “program”—if there was one—would protect career criminals from investigation and prosecution.
“This is the most corrupt words to come out of a Speaker’s mouth imaginable,” tweeted Frederick Wellman, Democratic congressional candidate for Missouri’s 2nd District. “The job of Congress isn’t to protect the President and his family. It’s to provide checks and balances on the Executive Branch.
“You’re damn right we will investigate crimes and corruption. Who moved $180 million in oil futures 15 minutes before Iran announcements? Who has gotten sole source contracts because of their connections to the Trump family? Where did our social security data go when DOGE downloaded it into portable hard drives?
“Where are the rest of the Epstein files? On and on this Congress has chosen covering up crimes instead of stopping them. That ends in November.”
Frederick Wellman
And on November 3, it did end. Voters disgusted with Trump’s corruption, vanity projects, endless Iran war and the high prices it created swept Democrats into the House and Senate. In doing so, they ensured Trump’s being a lame-duck President during his last two years in office.
One of these winners was Frederick Wellman.
Mike Johnson was not the only Republican to warn of the punishments facing his fellow party members.
One year earlier, on November 5, 2025, Steve Bannon, former advisor to Trump, issued a warning to his fellow Republicans generally and Stormtrumpers in particular.
He did so at the Conservative Partnership Institute, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit that trains “public policy warriors” who advocate for “conservative principles of liberty and small government.”
Said Bannon:
“And I will tell you right now, as God is my witness. If we lose the midterms, if we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison—myself included. They’re not gonna stop. They are getting more and more and more radical.
“And we have to counter that. And what do we have to counter it with? We have to counter it with more action, more intense action, more urgency. We’re burning daylight.”
Steve Bannon
Even better than their Democratic colleagues, Johnson and Bannon intimately knew the litany of crimes ordered by Trump or committed in his name.
By following the same strategy as Heinrich Himmler, Johnson and Bannon entangled Republicans in their leader’s crimes.
History has brutally condemned those Germans who, knowing the full extent of Adolf Hitler’s crimes, nevertheless signed on to perpetuate and them it.
History will render the same damning verdict against House and Senate Republicans who provided similar cover for the crimes of Donald Trump.
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THE GREATEST DANGER FACING AMERICA–REPUBLICAN VOTERS: PART ONE (OF THREE)
In Bureaucracy, History, Law, Law Enforcement, Military, Politics, Social commentary on November 9, 2026 at 12:05 amDonald Trump has been compared to Adolf Hitler, Gaius Caligula, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
But perhaps it would be even more accurate to compare him to Armus, an alien life-form depicted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Skin of Evil.”
The episode opens as the Enterprise receives a distress signal from a shuttlecraft that’s crash-landed on Vagra II, a desolate planet. Captain Jean Luc Picard sends an Away team to rescue counselor Deanna Troi.
The shuttlecraft is being prevented from taking off by Armus, a living mass of black, viscous, tar-like substance.
Armus is a malevolent life form created by an ancient race of Titans. They birthed him by purging themselves of all their evil traits. Then they abandoned him on a desolate planet, consumed by his own anger.
Armus confronts Will Riker in “Skin of Evil’
Armus brutalizes second-in-command William Riker and kills security officer Tasha Yar with a psychokinetic blast. Eventually Captain Picard lures Armus into lowering the force field around the shuttlecraft so Troi can be beamed up.
But Armus himself can’t be killed. He is immortal, a living being of pure evil, and can only be confined to the planet he’s been abandoned on.
Like Armus, Trump is the repository—and beneficiary—of the evil of his followers.
Every four years, Republican voters search for a Presidential candidate who promises to humiliate and destroy those they hate among their fellow Americans.
These intended victims include:
In 2016, Donald Trump was unquestionably the candidate who got—and kept—their blood-lust running. His campaign took off early in the polls and never lost momentum—or high ratings.
This was especially true among rural, evangelical voters—for whom sex-drenched issues such as abortion, transgenders and birth control are an obsession.
And they enthusiastically supported him during his first and second terms in office.
Donald Trump
On August 30, 2017, an article in Salon examined why Trump’s base supports him so fanatically: “Most Americans Strongly Dislike Trump, But the Angry Minority That Adores Him Controls Our Politics.”
It described these voters as representing about one-third of the Republican party.
From the article:
“These are older and more conservative white people, for the most part, who believe he should not listen to other Republicans and should follow his own instincts….
“They like Trump’s coarse personality, and approve of the fact that he treats women like his personal playthings. They enjoy it when he expresses sympathy for neo-Nazis and neo-Confederate white supremacists.
“They cheer when he declares his love for torture, tells the police to rough up suspects and vows to mandate the death penalty for certain crimes. (Which of course the president cannot do.)
“…This cohort of the Republican party didn’t vote for Trump because of his supposed policies on trade or his threat to withdraw from NATO. They voted for him because he said out loud what they were thinking. A petty, sophomoric, crude bully is apparently what they want as a leader.”
Supporters giving the Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute to Trump
According to an August 29, 2017 survey by the Pew Research Center, they comprised only 16% of the population. That left 65% of Republicans who were revolted by Trump’s personality and behavior. But they were being advised by GOP political consultants to vigorously support him.
“Your heart tells you that he’s bad for the country,” one anonymous consultant told the Salon reporter. “Your head looks at polling data among Republican primary voters and sees how popular he is.”
It’s precisely these hard-core Fascists who come out in mid-term elections—and they scared the remaining 65% who make up the GOP establishment.
Georgia’s 14th district offers a vivid example of the mentality of hardcore Trump supporters. From 2021 until her resignation in 2026, it was represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Among the highlights of her career:
The residents of Greene’s district feel left behind by years of change. As the U.S. becomes more urban, secular, and diverse, they feel “culturally oppressed.”
“They see themselves as great Americans, proud Americans, Christian Americans, and that doesn’t fit the American model anymore as they see it,” said Jan Pourquoi, owner of Global Works LLC.
Their top priority: Stick it to those who are urban, secular and non-white.
Georgia’s Congressional districts
Lisa Adams, a fervent supporter of Greene, called her: “Our stand-up person. Look at her stance on transgenderism. That’s a big one.”
Suppressing the rights of others has long been a priority of Republicans. Among their targets: Blacks, Hispanics, “uppity” women, liberals, atheists, non-Christians, Asians, Muslims, the legitimate news media.
Their latest intended victim: Transgenders.
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