The Thug Stops Here
I’ve held out long enough. Not joining the anti-Trump chorus has been a matter of pride. Except for a few churlish Facebook posts, I’ve stayed away from what I would consider serious discussion of this blight on our society and its political system.
Until now.
Yesterday’s scummy one-two punch by Trump and one of his henchmen changed all that. He is counting on the uninformed to join the uneducated and the unprincipled. He is whipping up jingoistic hatred with the evil virtuosity that history has repeatedly warned us about. He is the worst thing to happen to this country.
A day after the Orlando massacre, during which Trump’s self-serving tweet attempted to commandeer tragedy for personal gain, two more reptilian assertions marred the global mourning.
First, Roger Stone (Trump’s “longtime friend and informal adviser,” according to Politico) suggested that Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin might be a “Saudi spy” or “terrorist agent.” This is an a priori statement of ignorance and deceit. Period.
Next, as part of this tour de merde, Trump pulled the Washington Post’s press credentials because of its “incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign.” Evidently, our tyrant took issue with the Post (accurately) reporting Trump’s insinuation that President Obama was somehow involved in the Orlando killings, despite Trump’s recorded statement that “something was up” with Obama’s failure to link this and other mass killings with Islamic terrorists.
Make no mistake. These are leading indicators of tyranny. Like any other would-be dictator, Trump goes for the media, playing the wounded patriot to a growing mob of hatred-spewing simpletons and cowardly conservatives.
He is a direct threat to America and its values.
Period.
We are beyond the time for unity against him. Trump will stop democracy if we don’t stop him.
