Trump and His Republican Guard
With Trump it is a never-ending stream of vile and threatening verbiage spewing out of his foul cakehole. Can the guy ever just shut up? The man is a walking freak show swarmed with media people all desperate to get him on record.
The man has his own Republican Guard of self-appointed ultra-conservative ‘soldiers’ defending his every utterance, mimicking his buzzwords and shoring up his authority.
Is there a single thing he could do that would sour the public on him? Anything? Maybe support the return of the Southern Confederacy and slavery? He would certainly send out a trial balloon on social media.
Think of all of the resources spent on getting American civilization to where we are today. Trump and his Republican Guard now get to steer the boat and toss overboard what they disapprove of. Where do you think they’ll take us? Deconstructing the federal government will be an orgy of slashing and burning institutions and staff. Deconstructing government means in large part reconstructing our society. Few government institutions exist in a vacuum. Defunding federal organizations will result in defunding working people, beneficiaries and rocketing unemployment. Not just federal employees but also contractors and companies supplying goods and services to the government. It will be a major economic disruption.
Recently he mentioned in a speech that he’d like to see the US take back the Panama Canal. He claims Panama is not treating the US with enough respect and charging too much to use the canal. As expected, that trial balloon didn’t go far in Panama.
He is still keen on buying Greenland. The Danes and the Greenlanders wisely declined. Nonetheless, he claims that the acquisition of Greenland is “necessary for national defense”. This is also the universal excuse for invasion of sovereign nations like Iraq after 9/11.
His intent to designate the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations sets the stage for cross-border military strikes. Chasing armed cartel members around Mexico is just another wack-a-mole like Afghanistan. We elected a Manhattan commercial real estate developer to the Whitehouse and even before he is sworn-in he is already trying to acquire property by playing monopoly with America. He is the new Teflon-Don- everything just slides off of him. He is jail proof.
The more outrageous Trump gets the more adoration he receives at his love-in rallies. It’s a positive feedback loop. People aren’t blind. They can see that he has a checkered past. But they just like and admire him because he convincingly claims to hate the same people and intends to throw them out of government or the country. A scathing analysis of him line-item by line-item does nothing.
The Democratic Party and long-time members of the 4th estate can only smudge his armor. The Dem Party is well intentioned but is all hat and no cattle. The press corps having the greatest reach seem to be a largely ineffective, in part due to their reluctance to hold him accountable and loosing viewers. They continue to plaster his image on computer and video screens visible everywhere.
At this moment I’m typing uselessly into the vacuum of space …