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Each time we said that he had hit rock bottom, he found a new low that went beyond anything he had said or done before.
First it was mocking people with disabilities, then separating mothers and their young children, then holding up arms deals unless a country’s leaders investigated a rival, then beseeching a state official to find him votes to overturn an election. Each time we said that the man couldn’t go any lower.
Then yesterday happened. Invited to DC and incited to action, the hordes of unwashed and unthinking flocked to hear Der Fuhrer and back him to the hilt. Although she was chided for using the term back then, Hillary’s basket of deplorables finally surfaced for all to see. Although I try to understand them, to imagine what might drive me to follow such a powerful and irrational man, I find it hard to identify with their motives, nor can I begin to condone their actions. I cannot accept “boys will be boys,” nor “mobs will be mobs.”
So much for the unwashed, those poor folks who feel so aggrieved and fail to reason. They stormed the Bastille, but what about the legislators inside who lacked neither intelligence nor education, who had no excuse. Ted Cruz is a graduate of Harvard Law, for God’s sake. He certainly had to know that he was on the wrong side of the argument, if not the wrong side of history. Was he just cozying up to the side of Il Duce? Was he announcing his candidacy for the 2024 election? When Mitch McConnell starts sounding like the voice of reason, we know that the people around him must be stark raving mad.
Some commentators, the ultimate optimists, have said that perhaps yesterday went so far that it will bring people to their senses, that it takes something so despicable and offensive to make those with at least half a brain recognize how far wrong things have gone. I would love to embrace that position, and I hope those people are 100% right, but there’s something inside that tells me that there were just too many people cheering the mob on, whether on the steps of the Capitol or thousands of miles away on TV. Too many people still believe they were robbed. Too many people believe that they shouldn’t take it lying down.
Seemingly symmetrical, Trump began his term in office referring to “American carnage,” and now he ends it by creating the very carnage he referred to.
I tell myself that finally, finally, he has hit rock bottom.
Then I hold my breath in the knowledge that he is still in power for another 13 days.
well said, Ed.