I have often stated that the bullet on that campaign day should have hit Trump’s head rather than shave his ear.

I firmly stand by it.

I firmly believe that Donald J. Trump deserves to die, and in a very painful and public way in order to discourage any future wannabe dictator - just like the violent deaths of Mussolini and Hitler have discouraged dictators in Western Europe for nearly a century.

I firmly believe that there’ll be no way of getting rid of Trump through democratic means, even if he loses the next election, and that the 6th of January was just a small anticipation of the civil war that will come.

I firmly believe that, if given the choice between the death of thousands or millions in a civil war, or in a military invasion of Canada/Greenland/Panama, or the destruction of other economies (and their own domestic economy) through reckless tariffs, and the death of a single human being, we should choose the death of that single human being without even thinking twice.

I firmly believe that the principles of liberal democracy don’t apply to those who despise them and leverage them just to get into power, that Popper’s paradox of tolerance is valid today more than ever, and that violence is the only language you can speak to those who only understand violence.

I firmly believe that a bully who is used to get his way through threats and extorsion isn’t fit to be a leader, even if he manages to convince half of the population of the contrary.

I firmly believe that being bossy with your moderate allies and being weak with authoritarian bullies is an act of weakness, not of strength.

I invite my fellow American friends to take on the arms now, before Trump’s authoritarian metamorphosis is complete, before America becomes a one-man show with institutions filled up with yes-men, before the damage done to its reputation becomes impossible to fix, and before it permanently loses all of the friends it has made over the course of a century.

Democracy is much more fragile than we, spoiled by 80 years of peace, may think.