Fiercely independent and typically conservative, countryfolk rather live apart on mortgaged land than occupy urban tenements. Generally, with little intergroup contact, resolving conflicts and tolerating troublemakers aren’t their strengths. Some work for global agribusinesses who dictate who they should vote for. Fox News, QAnon, and reactionary religions warn congregations and whoever listens that Republicans represent their beliefs despite conclusive evidence to the contrary. Not true of entire Midwest, Nebraska’s 2nd District would have none of it, and stereotypes are nonsense. Marijuana growers, meth labs, and moonshiners also dot countryside. Democrats (who largely labor in factories and live in cities) outnumber Republicans (upper middle class business and property owners), but independents (who span left to right) beat both and, unrepresented, must side with either. By GOP design states with least residents get disproportionate electoral clout. Votes are thereby rigged in favor of minority party, who threaten every ideal of democracy with false logic and greed tactic of market economy.
Trump claims he’s for family values, but just look at what his family values. He’s no church goer, fights a Twitter feud against Pope Francis. Third wife is a former stripper and illegal alien linked to Russian mob. Kids are opportunists cutting illegal deals with multinational gangsters. Fringe groups he’s defended include Aryan Nation, gun nuts, and white supremacists. Dad was a klansman, though he’ll deny it when confronted, just as he contradicts own statements no sooner than he makes them in rare moments when he speaks lucidly in full sentences. His ad hominem style pushes emotional buttons with succinct putdowns and tag memes. He’s clearly against educators, journalists, PBS, scientists, and those demonstrably smarter since they make him appear an idiot. His MAGA slogan suspiciously resembles Mussolini’s Make Italy Great Again, which betrays his fascist foundation and brought nothing but cooperative ruination. It’s been alleged that WWII Nazis never gave up trying to raise a Fourth Reich, which masquerades as a conservative coalition of whom he imagines himself supreme leader. Never having served in military, he called war hero Senator McCain a coward because he was captured, interned, and survived to further serve constituents. He disrespects military, and made it a priority to infiltrate Pentagon with his own operatives. Trump’s interminable speeches, analyzed by experts over 20 years, reveal him to be an amoral, anti-environmental, autocratic, biased, bullying, conceited, criminal, denialist, divisive, elitist, fascist, greedy, low class, lying, misogynist, narcissist, nationalist, paranoid, racist, rambling, sadist, sanctimonious, self absorbed, treasonous xenophobe who is dismissive of citizens with disabilities, doesn't know what public service entails, has no domestic or foreign policies other than raid federal treasury and strike unholy deals with worst of scum, and only respects those who prey upon “losers” given his long history as casino owner and cruel landlord who profited off the suffering of others. No one could make all this up. Whatever John the Baptist was to Jesus Christ, Trump is to the Antichrist. If you vote based on ideology alone, why go along with an amoral clown?
What’s true? Deplorables like how Trump feeds them what they want to hear, even though it’s just ego boosts, empty promises, and fear validation for those to whom world is a Malthusian hell hole of their own making for which they refuse to take responsibility. He’s a hero to anti-regulatory slackers, brazen bullies, crime lords, drug dealers, gangsters, gunslingers, mental defectives, robber barons, street hustlers, and the worst you’ll find slithering hidden. While Tumpkins cite Al Wilson’s song The Snake (1969) as an invasion allegory including stranger danger over those you should never comfort or invite, it’s Trump himself who’s not to be trusted. Deranged misinformation factories always want to flip the script back onto plaintiffs. In fact, automation, not immigration, accounts for a much larger portion of job loss nationwide. "What voters think is true is more important in elections than the actual truth," a fact that Trump exists to exploit.
However, it’s not what you say or think but what you do that matters. Trump inherited a fortune, then parlayed it into a casino empire by pandering and pimping to addicts. Panama Papers compiled by an international nonpartisan consortium of journalists named him 3,750 times, more than any other perp on planet, as a known money launderer and tax evader. The first president in history not to disclose his tax return, he avoided $95 million owed and paid practically no taxes since 2000 from his golf courses, numerous resorts, and several casinos raking in billions, which he intentionally bankrupted to beat taxes while drawing inestimable salaries. His charities and college were closed by federal judges when determined to be frauds, and television show cancelled for poor ratings and rank unreality. Rumor has it that he ran for POTUS to avoid billions in losses and probable prosecution.
Elected despite no previous political experience, his legacy in office matches much of his life. No substantive bills were signed by him; though hundreds passed House, coconspirator McConnell made sure they’d never be debated in Senate with personal desk vetoes. Trump built a 12th Century wall against migration, executed own orders to kick millions of people off health insurance, pardoned felons, rescinded 65 of 100 environmental policies, rushed to sell oil rights in protected natural reserves including ANWAR, separated children from detained parents, and waged economic war with trading partners. His inept handling of COVID-19 pandemic led to millions of deaths; an estimated 35,000 of his own rally attendees were infected and 750 died, while he denied virulence and further infected staff members. His self-centeredness doubled federal debt and plunged nation into worst job loss in half a century, net minus 5%, after not keeping pace with Obama’s 10% gains, for which he took credit. Reagan, lionized for jobs and economy, stumbled for entire first term and trailed Clinton by 10% in second. Trump only admitted incompetent yes men into his revolving door administration, though few survived his irrational outbursts. Of 450 White House staff members, he’s had a record 85% turnover; many quit over conscience, others were indicted for fraud on his behalf, and scores were convicted and now serving time. Too fond of phrase, “You’re fired!” his spin was that he was trying to derive an ideal staff; reality is that best and brightest ran away and refused to be interviewed. In a typical story, according to AP, “Trump’s own election security agency has declared the 2020 presidential election to have been the most secure in history. Days after that statement was issued, Trump fired the agency’s leader.” Debunks his myth, no?
Trump was impeached for ballot tampering and would have been ousted except Senate Leader McConnell refused to hear evidence that would have convicted him. McConnell ought to be indicted for felony collusion, yet remains entrenched to stonewall progressives. Bill Clinton was impeached merely upon the impropriety of having a tryst in Oval Office and prevaricating when Congress confronted him for political leverage. Trump’s House trial was the most decisive of 3 in US history. This inquiry enhanced scrutiny over volunteer count and voter registration, so made it nearly impossible to cheat in 2020, thus his undoing. Trump answered no congressional subpoenas, colluded with foreign enemies, didn’t drain swamp as promised, doubled federal debt, enacted no new policies, extorted others and own nation for personal gain, forestalled several hundred new pieces of Democratic legislation while calling opponents "do-nothings", hid foreign investments and tax embarrassments, hired convicted and indicted criminals, hoodwinked rural electorate, insulted international trading partners without whom nation can’t exist, made America a global laughing stock, mined fears and frustrations instigated by GOP, and spent more than 300 times his salary on himself. Those who supported his reelection after all these revelations flagged their delusional fallacy or lack of decency.
Though it’s politically incorrect to demonize those who are mentally ill, a consortium of hundreds of psychiatrists expressed unanimous concern over his diagnosable psychoses. Any aim to improve government to suit incumbent’s own biases and whims can’t be healthy, prudent or safe. Diplomacy requires finding mutually beneficial approaches to nagging problems. History is littered with the failed regimes of hated dictators. Constitutional democracy has proven the longest lasting system. It was their real concern that nation couldn’t endure for 4 years with him at the helm, never mind 8. Need for greed is a disease that a market economy feeds, though you’ll be called a liar should you say so. If there was social justice, lives wouldn't be ruined on a quest for senseless accumulation. Pirate history teaches all a valuable lesson: After robbing treasure, they had no place to go, so couldn't improve lives by spending. Gold lust blinds, isolates, and turns one into a persona non grata.
Republicans can’t accept his loss because they gerrymandered districts and electoral votes in their own favor. Their accusations of voter “irregularities” describes a kettle calling pot black, but it’s more like an elephant afraid of a mouse. Speaks volumes when his supporters protested at polling places armed with assault rifles to intimidate unarmed volunteers, a vignette of what’s wrong in a polarized America. Deep state anxiety? Reverse conspiracy theory has Trump engineering pandemic to limit voting. It didn't work; many states shifted to mail-in ballots, and voters smartly took advantage. It was always a question who Democrats could promote to win decisively so manipulation couldn’t subvert majority's vote. It’s not that nation preferred Biden, who now owns the record for collecting most ballots ever cast and a 306 electoral victory after lawsuits and recounts; more just wanted Trump gone. Yet he and his lawyers are frantically trying to overturn results in swing states where he won on smaller margins against Hillary Clinton, even summoning Republican certifiers and state canvassers to White House to defy will of people and ignore counts. Constitutional experts already explained how he has no legal path to victory, but what does that matter to a scofflaw? Despite packing courts with conservative cronies, judges have ruled against every contention he’s thus far made.
For Trump concession means failure, loss, nothing to which he’d ever admit. Yet he’s bankrupted dozens of cash cows, defaulted on a billion in bank loans, and run dozens of businesses into ground laying off thousands of workers and leaving a wake of misery while taking millions in salary. Bragging that he took no pay as president, which he considered chump change, he bilked treasury for nearly a billion. Every golf outing at one of his resorts cost tens of millions in secret service lodging and transportation, which he pocketed, as he set a record for more vacations, 98, than all other presidents combined, not to mention nonstop rallies to prop up his celebrity profile.
Biden should be advised to change all White House locks, count antiques and silverware, fumigate premises, and sweep for bugs after escorting him out in handcuffs. Trump called historic presidential residence a “shit hole” along with scores of third world countries. A narcissistic sociopath and national embarrassment with his fake facts, fake news, fake presidency, and soon fake broadcast network, Trump will continue his relentless attack against civil rights, common sense, decency, democracy, inclusion, race, reason, tolerance and women. Already nation’s oldest president at inauguration, he expects to win a second term in 2024, when he’ll be 78 years old. Not to be ageist, Reagan was senile most of his 2nd term, which ended in his 77th year, in an office that rapidly aged and exhausted holders decades younger. No matter, Trump plans to promote plentiful progeny to act as personal proxies. The demon who possesses and protects Trump is ageless, a devious predator nourished on blood and power since antiquity. Don’t expect Don to fade nicely into sunset and let nation heal and rebound.
