Trump and the Rise of a New Global Fascist Moment.

President Donald Trump learned a critical lesson from the trial in the Senate. This is not the one people like Senator Susan Collins believes he did. According to Collins the president now knows there is a limit to what he can do. He also learned that he should watch what he did. Then there is reality. The president proved this clearly the next morning. His hour-long victory lap was nothing short of what an authoritarian who seeks revenge would.

Then we saw the firing of people like Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, his brother Yevgeny and Ambassador Gordon Sondland. These were not the actions of a man who believes in democracy. Nor was he chastened at all, as some like Senator Collins claimed. We know that members of the senate, like Marco Rubio, believe the case was proven. Yet they would not vote to convict in a strange belief that this would be bad for the country.

It is clear that revenge is against the law, but what did President Donald Trump learn? Well, the same exact lesson he has over the rest of his life. His money, lawyers and other methods mean that he has yet to face real accountability for anything he has done in his life. Yes, he had to pay for Trump University, but it is not like it will break him. Overall, he is above the law, and that is the lesson he knows. It is the one reinforced by a Republican Party that is afraid of him.

There is a fact though, he has given them some of the things they want, such as tax cuts. The others are far-right judges that will…