Trump Telling The truth?

WHEN DONALD TRUMP famously said that he could shoot somebody dead on fifth avenue without damaging his poitical support, he was evidently lapsing into a rare moment of truth and wisdom. As they say, sometimes the blind old squirrel finds an acorn. Also, even a broken clock is right twice a day. (They sure say clever things, dont they?) The truth of this has never been more evident. Newly "convicted" in a civil lawsuit of being responsible for sexually mistreating and defaming a women, his poll numbers have suffered - not at all. Seemingly daily the psychology of mass allegiance to a cult leader becomes more fascinating, as we witness the phenomenon directly. Surely there will come a time when the Trump phenomenon appears, fully elucidated, not only in history books, but in sociology texts, and abnormal psychology books as well. An uniformed explanation might include the theory that when a large group of people cdecide that a leader is good, or beneficial to society, and remain convinced of that over a long period of time, it becomes increasingly difficult to find fault, any fault, with the leader, and the attitude towards him or her takes on a kind of unqualified reverence, unshakable by logic or reason. Before now, the thought that a person could become president or fht eUnited States, endure two impeachments, los a bid rfor reelection,be hit with a federal criminal indictment, be found by a civil jury to be responsible for sexually molesting a woman, then run for president again, and win a major political party's nomination, and, heaven forbid, actually become president again - would have been unthinkable. but, this is a new and different era. If nothing else, what we are witnessing is the sad reality that one needn't be a good, or even decent person to be successful in gaining political power, even in, especially in, a democracy. Astute observers of American culture have long warned us that there might come a day when a person of dubious intellectual and moral qualifications, a complete reprobate, comes to power as president. That day has come and gone, and, nightmarishly, might well come again.