It’s a sad and pathetic situation. The Republicans seem to be digging themselves a hole by keeping their hats in the Trump ring. Donald Trump appears only to be proving to anyone who hasn’t already noticed that he is the least qualified person in a long time to run for President.
The man obviously has some sort of inner fire burning, but many know it’s fueled by rage and vengeance. And fear. One might dare think that he could yet flame out before our eyes.
He doesn’t want the job because he cares about the country and the people who live in it. He wants the job because he sees it as his ticket to staying ahead of the jailer. Sadly, he’s somehow gotten this far, maintained some sort of undeserved “relevance,” so we have to keep dealing with him and the cast of misfits around him.
It’s somehow unsatisfying and infuriating to think that we’re once again faced with a choice of voting for Trump or someone whose main attribute is that they’re not Trump—as joyous and hopeful as the Harris ticket might seem. I hope Kamala and Tim can put their own stamp on this election, put some daylight between them and whatever it was that people found unappealing about Joe Biden. I hope they can survive the assault that’s coming from the Trump camp and Putin and Xi and Iran and whoever else is rooting for and working toward America’s implosion.
I hope that, someday, someone can summarize and record just how awful Trump was, how much damage he has wrought, how much doubt and poison he introduced, how much time he has forced us to waste. And I hope this same person, or persons, can happily write that, ultimately, even he and the whack jobs and billionaires who propped him up couldn’t prevail.
I hope that’s the ending to this current chapter.
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