By Rote

Another day, another indictment.

How can supporters believe that Trump is on their side? The idea of this self-involved, federally and state-indicted billionaire(?) being anyone’s champion is preposterous. He doesn’t care about them, especially this time around. He’s running for his life, literally. He has no need for his dutiful supporters other than as one who needs the attention they pay him, the votes they cast, the million$ they donate, and the positive vibes they give him at his spectacularly odious rallies.

One thing Trump and his supporters have in common is that they all like playing the victim. They like bad-mouthing Democrats. They like not doing their homework, shooting from the hip, saying stuff with no basis in fact, but just to piss people off. They live for “owning the libs,” and nothing more. They don’t have ideas or plans. They just get their rocks off by airing grievances and being mad about… something.

All of this is right up Trump’s alley. This is why they love him—because it’s so easy for him to simply pay lip service and not really try and yet somehow still touch a nerve. He just has to be loud and gripe about stuff and talk about himself, and people eat it up. This is viewed as being in touch, somehow, coming across as a champion of the downtrodden white people who feel threatened by a changing world, a changing complexion.

Trump uses people. It’s amazing his base isn’t bothered by that, because he’s been using them all along. He can do nothing for them except teach them how to complain and master a twelve-word vocabulary.

“Witch hunt,” “disgrace,” and nine or ten others.