Bill King, - Bill King substackStephan: What I find interesting about this Bill King substack is not what he says, but that public commentators are finally willing to call the Trump Republican coup that has been going on for six months what it is. It is all so blatant, and yet only now are people beginning to realize what is happening. It follows Project 2025, which is just a restatement of the strategy followed by Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, Stalin in Russia, and Orban in Hungary. And yet, I still don't see millions of Americans out in the streets nonviolently showing their opposition. Instead, the polls show that Trump's MAGAts still overwhelmingly support him. I also think it is notable that Bill King is American-born but now a Canadian citizen.
There’s a strange musk hanging over Washington—not the tech bro, but the stench of a regime in rigour mortis. You can feel it in the slouched gait of Trump’s public appearances, the rasp in his voice that hints not at command but decay. The body is rotting, the brain is combative, and the distractions—a carnival of culture-war lunacy—are coming faster than subpoenas.
Here’s a diversion fresh from the Trump fog machine: rename the Commanders back to the Redskins and the Guardians back to the Indians—“out of respect,” he says, for Indigenous people. As if satire itself just resigned from irony overload. It’s not about honouring anyone; it’s about testing how far the spectacle can go before the whole stage collapses.
But the real show isn’t on the field—it’s in the shadows. And if you squint through the smoke, you’ll see something far more consequential: a whisper coup, one quietly rolling into place like a fog over Dillon, Montana. JD Vance—the hillbilly elegist turned ideological ventriloquist dummy—slipped out west to meet the Murdoch clan. Not for trout fishing. Not for [...]
