It is quite surprising that, for nearly 10 years, millions of people continue to spell MAGA incorrectly. Please let me explain that the correct spelling of MAGA is M-A-F-I-A.
The leader of this mafia is unequivocally “The Don.” Throughout these years, The Don has relied essentially on the same strategy.
He, himself, does not directly perform the mafia’s violent and murderous acts. Like all Dons, he gets others—in his case, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the January 6th insurrectionists, and more recently, ICE and the U.S. military—to perform the acts that he orders. He has violated his oath to faithfully execute the laws of the United States nearly every day he has been in office.
Inside The Don’s world, there are only two possible positions: One is either on his side, or one is the enemy. Like all mob bosses, The Don’s primary weapon is extortion. His pattern of interaction is that he initiates conflict by making massive threats, then sadistically stomps his foot on his opponent’s neck, followed by a superficial retreat, claiming he is willing to negotiate.
There is one critical factor that distinguishes The Don’s criminal operations from many other mafia organizations: Despite the exception of his unrelenting secretive and corrupt business maneuvers, he generally conducts most of his criminal behaviors openly in public.
The open display of his criminal behavior has a paradoxical effect on the public. Millions of Americans reason that The Don’s criminal behaviors must not be illegal because, if they were illegal, he would be arrested. But The Don is not arrested, in part, because he has successfully corrupted nearly the entire American judicial system.
There will be a day when this M-A-F-I-A boss is gone. However, the longer The Don sits in that White House office, the greater the destruction to life and the planet. It is a moral duty of every American to stop this criminal.
Alan Kanner, Ph.D., is a psychologist in Amherst, MA.
