If Donald Trump can threaten and silence Taylor Swift,

then he can do it to anybody.

It's the last day of January, 2024, and this is today's warning.

There are two storylines converging today in MAGA America.

Let's get right to it. Rolling Stone reports that Donald Trump's

top lieutenants are preparing, quote, holy war, end quote, against Taylor Swift, if the pop superstar

should dare do what she did in 2020 and oppose Donald Trump. We talk often on this platform

about the coming era of retribution politics, the punishment era that Trump keeps promising.

This is what it looks like. It's important to understand something about Taylor Swift.

Taylor Swift is an American and her right to participate, to speak, to write, to think,

to assert her viewpoints and express her conscience are God-given.

There is nothing that is more un-American than the concept of punishment for political opposition

and dissent. It is a cornerstone of American life

that freedom requires choice.

Descent is necessary,

and it is embedded in the fabric in the DNA of the country. What we are seeing is

thuggery. This is not worthy of an American president or of the United States. This is the type of

behavior that you expect in third world thugacresies.

It is banana republicanism.

And it is the spine of Donald Trump's core message that if you oppose him, you will be

punished, that if you stand up, he will seek retribution against you, that he will employ all the levers of the state,

it's taxing authorities, it's military, to do whatever he can do to assert his power, take as much as he can,

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