“The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grassRemembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path”
----Pink
Floyd “Brain Damage”
The
tragedy that is Donald tRUMP is that not only has he has squandered his
presidency, but that he has legitimized the worst elements of American
Society. In this he is not solely
responsible, for he had a lot of help.
William
F. Buckley Jr. once remarked that the difference between conservative and
liberal is that the conservative has more kooks on his side. So, it seems.
Buckley, to his credit labored with Eisenhower to marginalize at least
some of the most egregious craziness rampant in the movement by banishing the likes
of the John Birch Society from the Republican Party councils. Not so anymore. A decade or so ago, the Birchers were
welcomed back into the fold, invited to the annual C-Pac conclave, a veritable
cesspool of excrement, also featuring the likes of Glenn Beck and Ann
Coulter. The nose of the camel, as is
said in the Middle East, was back under the tent and the Rescumlicans welcomed
it in. And so, began the movement toward
a form of ‘populism’, a political term that Huey Long would not embrace because
of its historically racist implications.
The
tragedy that is Donald J. tRUMP is that first through his nomination for, and
then elevation to, the presidency the Rescumlican Party and then the country at
large has legitimized what he represents.
His elevation, in turn, of Steve Bannon and his ilk have, in turn, not
only legitimized ‘stale-fart’ News but all that it represents. Bannon can now, after a short stint in the
West Wing, take his White House credentials with him as he parlays his newly
minted legitimacy into an ever-greater political voice. Bannon
now, in his words, has his hands back on his weapons, only now his missiles are
armed with ever greater warheads.
Disgustus and his Rescumlican enablers are responsible.
mpeach and Imprison.
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