Jon Reisman

The unprecedented August 8th raid on former President Trump’s Florida home has loosed the whirlwind (to reference Senator Schumer’s public threats to Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett) Like Fort Sumter, it will be noted in history as the action signifying the formal start of the second American Civil War, although the roots and divisions go back many years. They just cannot be papered over any more, even though the legacy media and our own Bangor Daily News will do their best (see the August 10 editorial).

• There is no Equal Justice. No consequences for Hillary Clinton (illegal private e-mail server/national security threat/Benghazi, serial lying), Joe Biden (Biden crime family Godfather), Hunter Biden (Biden crime family bagman, laptop from Hell, crack, influence peddling, gun background check liar) former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger (stole classified documents), FBI Director Comey and his duplicitous, lying FBI minions (Russia hoax), James Clapper and 50 former top Intelligence Officials who protected the Biden crime family by claiming the laptop from hell was Russian disinformation just before the 2020 election, Black Lives Matter arsonists and rioters, or any woke leftist. Trump and anyone on the right who challenges progressive deep state hegemony, however, must be destroyed.

• The FBI and the Department of Justice have become weapons of mass conservative destruction. Half of America (the right half) does not trust them and never will again. If Bruce Poliquin wants my vote, he will have to pledge to:
- Defund the FBI and decimate the Department of Justice, because neither can be allowed to continue as a leftist progressive Stasi;
- Impeach The Biden crime family head and his capos at Justice, Homeland Security, Defense, HHS and Education;
- Repeal and defund the Inflation Reduction/Weaponize the IRS Act.
At least with Jared Golden I can count on a relatively honest leftist authoritarian

• The upcoming midterm election will starkly reveal the country’s political and psychological fault lines. I do not want to be in a union with the left Coast, New York or Illinois. I’d be in favor of a trial separation if not a complete divorce from both Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine, and I wouldn’t miss Chicago, San Francisco or Washington DC one bit.

• If the Republic survives till the 2024 election (I’m betting on President Kamala Harris declaring martial law and suspending the Bill of Rights, especially for Trump voters, before that), it won’t take much to devolve into actual civil war regardless of who “wins” (or steals) the White House . We have already seen the left riot after the 2016 election (although the corporate media downplayed and tried to hide it). A Republican victory in 2024 (it does not matter if it’s Trump, Desantis or even a decepticon from the deep state /fifth column wing of the GOP) will release leftist riots and arson dwarfing 2016 and the summer of 2020. A Democratic victory (steal) in 2024 will assure that half the country has had enough. I recommend immediate action to protect your second Amendment rights before President Harris and her progressive Stalinist friends revoke them.

• It would take tremendous leadership to avert Civil War after the August 8th raid, and the cupboard is bare. There is no one on the left or right with the desire, stature and following to undo the distrust, mistrust and anger that the raid has loosed. President Biden is indeed the worst President since James Buchanan sleepwalked the country into the First Civil War, and Trump is primarily a narcissist before being a statesman (something he ironically shares with Hillary, who at least hides it better). Kamala Harris, Mayor Pete and Governors Newsom and Whitmer are leadership pygmies that befit our banana republic status. Governor DeSantis and Senator Cotton are principled leaders and patriots, but they lack the stature to prevent this whirlwind from dissolving the union. Sadly, Senator Collins does not even know what to say or do, and Senator King has besmirched the union saving legacy of Joshua Chamberlain, who he claims to revere.

Effective September 1 2022, Jon Reisman is retiring from the University of Maine at Machias after 38 years.  Mr. Reisman’s views are his own and he welcomes comments as letters to the editor here, or to him directly via email at [email protected].