Either Trump’s pending cases were simply the result of partisan, whine-soaked politics destined for dismissal on a lack of true merit, or justice has not been served.
It’s confusing, because the message is sent that everything is relative, merely a matter of perspective, and that deep pockets matter more than due process and a guilty verdict that, to many, would have felt like the more deserving outcome.
It’s confusing because January 6 becomes water under the bridge; a phone call to Brad Raffensperger suggesting he find 11,780 votes now counts for nothing; boxes of documents stored in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago become nothing more than mythic red herrings; misogynistic and criminal assaults on women languish in the ether of “men being men.” Making a stand and the warning shots from former Trump loyalists take on the character of fools’ errands.
Meanwhile, a festering, pus-infected eruption gets to return to the White House, which may sound harsh, but Trump brings out the best in all of us…
A recent editorial in the local paper contained an itemized list of reasons why Trump won the election last week. It was a true litany of grievance and slights, an accumulation of slings and arrows that apparently wounded this man’s soul so deeply that Trump’s victory provided the catalyst for a cathartic release of pent-up venom.
He remembered a lot of things, like Joe Biden’s admittedly ill-timed and ill-advised declaration that Trump supporters were garbage, yet he is apparently OK with a whole island of people being called the same. He remembered the “too liberal” acceptance of transgender people and cross-dressers. He remembered the woman’s march the day after Inauguration 2017 when women had the gall to sport headware that looked like a vagina, while apparently overlooking Trump’s comment about grabbing women by the same. He remembered 95% negative coverage in the news, which means he must be a consumer of at least 95% of whatever it is they’re peddling on Fox.
He said he gets called a racist and a Nazi simply because he has different views than others of us, when, as a counterpoint, it could be because such labels frequently go unrecognized and he probably doesn’t spend much time looking in the mirror.
I guess what irks me about this person’s remarkably detailed and thorough listing of insults and attacks is, first of all, that he must have been keeping a running tally along the way, and, secondly, that what he sees as insults and attacks I and many others understand to be the thin-skinned perceptions of someone who has drunk the Kool-Aid, who hasn’t stopped to evaluate his allegiances, who has taken the bait, hook, line, and sinker, and decided that an angry manchild who is incapable of giving a shit about him and his family is somehow the guy who can solve all his and his family’s problems.
It’s the insidious deception, you know? It runs deep. The net is very large, and the yield continues to mystify and astound.
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