Storming

BANNED FROM MAINSTREAM SOCIAL MEDIA due to behavior unacceptable among civilized people, Donald Trup took his football and went home. He created his own media platform, laughably called "Truth". From there he has spewed forth his usual assortment of lies and idiocy. His latest message? "The storm is coming". "The storm" is a term much abused among the freakish members of "Q-Anon", the pro Trump website and movement which invents, distributes and supports the most idiotic conspiracy theories in the genre. Accordingly, there will coe a great "storm", meaning that Trump will miraculously be swept back into power, presumably violently, as per the proclivities of those who comprise his cult following. Indeed, teh insurrection of January 6, 2021, seems to have been but a dress rehearsal. Just as the "saved" shall be rapturred into heaven, Trump shall be raptured back into the White House. Of note is that those who believe in the former foolish superstition tend to be the ones who believe in the latter. Trump recently asserted that if he is indicted, a "whole lotta folks are gonna be upset". Let them be upset. The "rapture", which according to Christian mythology will occur any day now when one hundred forty four thousand, (one gross times one thousand) of the saved elect will be transported into heaven, and everyone else will be left behind on Earth to suffer the slings and arrows of the end times, was originally invented by an English theologan, who claimed that it is scriptural, and popularized by American minister William Miller in the eighteen forties. Miller, whose movement became the basis of the new Seventh Day Adventist church, had his followers standing atop hilltops in October of 1843 and again in 1844, but nothing happened. Regrettably, they had all sold their possessions, and were left possessionless and penniless. Thus began yet another made-in-America cult religion. There are doubtless more to come. Donald Trump, the Christ of the contemporary conservative movement, savior of right wing extremism. The Trump movement has the psychological and sociological structure of a cult movement; thousands of adherents, enchanted by the personality of their leader and founder, entranced by false promises of future glory. Now Trump is calling for "The Storm", his version of the rapture. It is to be hoped that his promise is a false as the one still believed by gullible, hopeful Christian cultists.