I know this piece is dark and highly pessimistic but I find myself compelled to make this case with the hope that I am totally wrong. It is not to be taken as a political challenge or attack, but as a warning. I was raised in the 1930ies and the early 1940ies and I have seen this movie before. Despite all assertions that Donald Trump was not politically savvy or skilled, he is in the process of pulling off the most brilliant political coup in our nation’s history and changing our mode of governance forever. Donald Trump is cleverly positioning himself to be president for life. He has managed to take advantage of our system to staff our political mechanism with total loyalists that will support his every move. As a businessman Trump has always run a top down organization and he has already used his favorite big stick, “you are fired” to punish his perceived disloyalists and to intimidate all who surround him. He has appointed to the lower federal courts 110