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Last Thursday, three speeches delivered by MAGA figureheads in the Trump administration amounted to \u201cpronouncements\u201d of the death of American democracy. This is according to veteran critical care physician Robert B. Shpiner, who took to the Guardian<\/u> to warn of the dangerous way the White House is wielding the word \u201ccancer\u201d to describe its political opponents. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThe presumption that US elections are legitimate died last week in Washington,\u201d writes Shpiner. \u201cIt did not die of one wound. It died of three, inflicted in a single day\u2026 And the country, running to the loudest of them, never examined the one most likely to kill.\u201d Shpiner admits that while such pronouncements can seem alarmist, when his family left Russia in 1917 and Germany in 1933, \u201cin both generations, leaving was called excessive; staying was the reasonable position. But an alarm that was right both times it sounded is not overcaution.\u201d He asserts that the alarm sounded three times last Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe morning belonged to the secretary of state<\/u>,\u201d writes Shpiner. \u201cBefore officials of more than 60 countries, he announced that the counterterrorism architecture of the free world, built over a generation against jihadist mass murder, should be rebuilt and aimed at the domestic left. He named a transnational enemy defined by hatred of the west, \u2018a revolt of the worst against the best<\/u>.\u2019 He tied it to Iran and to Cuba and offered no evidence for either link. He said the journalists and thinktanks who might check the claims often agree with the enemy\u2019s goals. The move is old and reliable: discredit the second opinion in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, writes Shpiner, \u201cmidday belonged to the White House deputy chief of staff<\/u>. What he said<\/u> deserves to be quoted rather than summarized, because summary is a mercy it has not earned. He called<\/u> \u2018leftwing political terrorism\u2019 a \u2018fatal cancer of civilization.\u2019 He said that its politics, left to run its course, \u2018always becomes a gulag.\u2019 He said antifa demonstrators are \u2018all deformed in some way, in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism,\u2019 that \u2018their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred,\u2019 and he asked why there is \u2018not one normal-looking person among them.\u2019 He said that when the leftist protests that his rights are being violated, those appeals \u2018must fall on deaf ears.\u2019 He urged the assembled governments to be \u2018completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Here Shpiner notes that he has practiced critical care for four decades, and that \u201ccancer is my vocabulary, not his,\u201d writing, \u201cI know what happened the last time a government borrowed it. The Nazi state\u2019s central perversion was the medicalization of killing: the enemy as tumor, as bacillus, the nation as patient, extermination as cure\u2026 When a government describes citizens as a cancer<\/u>, it has written the first line of a treatment plan. On Thursday, the plan was read aloud, from a state department podium.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Finally, writes Shpiner, \u201cthe evening belonged to the president. In primetime he called the American election system indefensible<\/u>, claimed a foreign power held 220 million voter files<\/u>, declared mail voting<\/u> inherently corrupt, accused his own intelligence services <\/u>of concealment, and told Congress that the only reason to oppose his bill is the intent to cheat. That framework converts every future outcome into evidence. Pass the bill and win: the bill worked. Fail and lose: the cheaters blocked it. A presumption of legitimacy cannot survive inside a belief system engineered to be unfalsifiable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shpiner describes the media\u2019s response in the days to come as a \u201ctriage error,\u201d asserting that the focus fell on the \u201cloudest injury\u201d \u2014 President Donald Trump \u2014 and ignored \u201cthe morning\u2019s remarks, the ones that declared a class of Americans a cancer and read enmity on their bodies.\u201d Writes Shpiner, \u201cI have watched teams run to the dramatic patient while the quiet one, the one not crying out, exsanguinates behind a curtain. The most dangerous words spoken in Washington on Thursday were not spoken in primetime. They were spoken before lunch, to more than 60 countries. The official transcript records the applause.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concludes on a grim note, writing, \u201cIn 40 years of intensive care, I have pronounced death many times. The criteria are strict because the declaration is irreversible, and so we are taught to be certain before we speak. I have also, more than once, seen a rhythm return after the room had gone quiet, when someone refused to stop compressions on schedule. This notice is filed in the knowledge that pronouncements can be premature. It is filed in the fear that this one is not.\u201d<\/p>\n

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