A Coming Revenge Tour?

        I had decided to take a break from blogging about the election results, politics, and he-who-must-not-be-named-but-whose-initials-are-D.T.
​        After all, the majority of my fellow Americans had voted - fairly and squarely - for what they wanted fixed in this country - mainly the economy and immigration - and who they wanted to fix it, and so that was that. Besides, if that many Americans were now optimistic about our country's future, I figured I should  try to be, too. Or at least sit back a while and see how things shake out.
         And so enough already,  I was going to give political discourse a rest. I was determined that for the time being I'd choose my blog subject matter from among the infinite variety of other interesting and noteworthy phenomena that fill our world.
       That was my intention. But then yesterday morning I started going through the news and saw this:  

​...and this:

...and these headlines and photos from the New York Times:

       Which is how I learned that according to sources who've been close to Donald Trump, it's not a question of if when he gets back into the Oval Office he will carry out the revenge tour of which he talked incessantly during his campaign; it's a question of who he will  succeed in getting and how harshly will he be able to punish them. 
​        Among the targets on his wish-to-destroy list are Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and the Obamas, but the thinking is that those people are simply too big for him to pursue. However some of Trump's allies are chomping at the bit to see vengeance carried out against others who crossed him, such as special counsel Jack Smith, who was investigating Trump's theft of Federal records and who Trump said should be thrown out of the country by the U.S. government.     

      There's also New York Attorney General Letitia James, who prosecuted a 355 million dollar fraud case against Trump and for which he's demanded that she now be prosecuted,

...along with Justice Arthur Engoron, who tired that case and Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney who prosecuted Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money case and won 34 felony counts against him.

      He's called for his critic Liz Cheney to be tried by a military tribunal,

...and he said that General Mark Milley, his former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be tried for treason and deserved to be executed. General Milley has called Trump a fascist to the core and the most dangerous man in America.

      Also on Donald Trump's retribution list are Former FBI Director James Comey, Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd, among others. There are over 100 people in all he has threatened to punish. 
          As always, Donald Trump is once again surrounded by a cadre of minions and consiglieri who are lining up to go after his perceived enemies and do his filthy work for him. Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, 

​...has already announced he would launch a criminal investigation of Jack Smith. 
         Conservative mouth Mike Davis, who is under consideration to be Trump's Attorney General,

...wrote this of Donald Trump's perceived enemies on social media site X :               

     Davis also once threatened Letitia James to stop her case against Donald Trump:

       And this is the vulgar little nematode who may well become the next Attorney General of the United States and will hold in his fist the United States Justice Department and the power to destroy whoever he wishes. And this is how he dared to address the woman who is the Attorney General of New York.
        All of this for me begs a question. 
       Surely some of Donald Trump's most fervent disciples will be thrilled to see anyone who displeased him suffer. But I wonder about the rest of those who voted for him because they believed he would solve immigration and boost the economy: how will those voters feel when they see innocent citizens dragged before Donald Trump's tribunals, when they read about people's lives publicly ruined for speaking out or for doing their jobs? Will those voters mind? Will they say, never mind, having Donald Trump for President is worth it? Or will they even care at all?

References
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/us/politics/trump-enemies-prosecution.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/06/trump-retribution-enemy-list-00187725