Wearing The Color

THE OLD BOY came walking into the senior center wearing a MAGA cap, black, not red. He did it just to push a few buttons, including mine. I told him that the cap needs to be red, and he said that he got it for free, because its previous owner was indeed looking for a red one. He didn't care, since for him, the whole thing, all the fuss and politics, is irrelevant, nothing but a joke. Maybe he has a point. Somebody wrote "MASA" (Make America Smart Again) on a piece of tape, and covered up the old boy's message, which was spelled out across his cap. He didn't even notice, until he went home, and took off his hat. He blamed me, falsely. He watches the news, usually in his NRA cap, and probably understands, like nearly three quarters of the American people, that the president did something very, very bad. Every witness on national television came from within the Trump administration, doing damage to conspiracy theories linking the investigation into Trump's little blackmail scheme to a massive hoax involving the Democrats and all the other usual suspects. Its just a matter of how bad. The defense that since the president got caught before he could complete his scheme and is therefore innocent of any wrongdoing seems hollow as well, if only because it is. As the better than fiction narrative of Trump's prolonged, organized, and widely known attempt to blackmail the Ukraine sinks in, the percentage of Americans who actually understand the seriousness and danger of this will creep, inexorably, towards one hundred. of course, it will never get all the way there.