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Just as with Pavlov’s dog, Donald Trump announced his intention to run for President and I… didn’t start to salivate, that would be too literal… but I did get the urge to resurrect Kru’s Control. So, displaying what learning psychologists call spontaneous recovery, here come my occasional ramblings on politics, current events, and the Big Orange Buffoon.
First, some context. It’s been said that you could never lose any money betting against the intelligence of the American public. But the midterms, I dare say, might have been the exception. Watching the charlatans and election deniers go down one after the other made me believe that the concept of rule by popular vote might have a decent chance of survival in the US of A.
If Pennsylvanians can register a preference for a liberal, tattooed, 6 ft 8 recent stroke survivor over a New Jersey quack doctor who is upset over the effect of inflation on the price of crudite. If the voting public of Arizona can prefer a quiet but competent overseer of the vote counting process over a slick young former news anchor who held fast to the notion that Biden had stolen the election, then perhaps there’s hope for us all.
And although the Senate majority won’t hang in the balance, I’m feeling positive that there are enough thoughtful folks in Atlanta and environs to overcome the preferences of many rural Georgians for a great football folk hero who has apparently taken far too many blows to the head.
And then there is a Great Orange Pumpkin, the man who undermines the bedrock of democracy by refusing to accept the results of a national election no matter how many times those who have any connection to reality call for him to accept the bad news that he LOST.
Could it be true that many Americans, even those of the MAGA variety, are just sick and tired of hearing his tirades over and over. Could it be that Republicans who are even slightly rational recognize him as dead weight, as an albatross around the neck of candidates who actually represent conservative values.
Could it be that someone is so distasteful and destructive that he would get me rooting for lesser evils such as those who recently served as Vice President or currently rule Florida.
So, Donald, please rush to Georgia and endorse your fool/puppet. Please rant on about the same old same old—till you are blue in the face and till people stop listening.
Yes, it is still dangerous to overestimate the intelligence of the American public. And yes, there are too many people like the My Pillow guy who will never desert the cult leader. But there is now reason to hope that the bad guys will just be too far into conspiracy theories and that the values of the good guys will actually prevail.
I’m not an optimist. Optimists get disappointed too often. But could it be that there are enough rational people out there to put Trump out to pasture??
Maybe. Just maybe.
