Trump, Speaking

SOMEHOW, for some reason, the idea of Donald J. Trump becoming Speaker of the House appeals to me. Maybe that means I've given up, surrenderred to the insanity of what I perceive to be an insane world, just looking at this defeated date for a little entertainment, a litte amusement. I can laready imagine him up there elevated above the chamber, holding forth, thundering, rantihg, raving about the communist Democrats who want to destroy our beautiful country, and the utter, dire necessity of getting rid of the liberals, getting rid of all this climte change scare tatics nonsense, and getting back to the business of bringing jobs home to America, bringing back coal, getting those damned stupid LGBTQ and raebaiting books out of our children's libraries, and so on. His sycophanitc Republican House caucus cheering wildly as their hero pledges, when he is back in the White House in a few months, to truly clean and drain the swamp for real, this time. Donald Trump is perfectly happy to say whatever is required, to spew whatever inane drivel necessary to keep his sycophants enraptured. He would be equally happy to hold forth vigorously about the virtues of sharing,of economic equality, and the glorious crusade to fight, mitigate, and reverse climate change.Trump does not care who pays attention to him, as long as somebody does. Now, evidently, a substantial percentage of Republican House members would be tickled pink, so to speak, at the prospect of having Trump become Speaker, just at a substantial majority of them would evidently be equally happy for Trump to get elected president again. There really is no other way to describe it: to support Donald Trump for anything, at this point, other than wishing him well in his legal endeavors, represents an astonishing lapse in not only good judgment, but also, in moral integrity. No matter who you are, if and when you are preparing to spend the next several years defending yourself against no fewer than ninety one felony accusations, you are going to be very busy, in court. Running for President of the U.S., or becoming speaker of the House, even briefly, is clearly not a good idea. Donald Trump continues his poitical career in the face of his enormous legal challenges partly for the same reason his supporters continue to support his political aspirations despite Trump's obvious "flaws"; spite. Defiance. Defiance of the establishment, which they see as persecuting their hero. The more support Trump receives from Republicans, the more support he gets generally. the more trapped the Republican party is going to find itself with a leader who is facing years in prison forvery serious crimes. Atsome point, sooner or later,the Republicans are going to have to move on from Trump; his criminality is becoming too great for them, or any political party, to bear. The same is true of his supprters as individuals; their support for him will have to end.The mythology that all of Trump's troubles are being caused by a conspiracy against him is only going to hold up for so long, not nearly as long as his followers might think. Just as the passage of time has revealed no evidence that the presidential election was stolen from Trump, and his big election lie is gradually becoming widely recognized as a lie, as time proceeds, and not a shred of evidence emerges that there is even the sligtest hint of any conspiracy to bring Trump down, much less one involving five grand juries and nearly a hundred felony charges, the public will overwhelmingly accept the reality that Donald Trump is a criminal, and was never qualitied to be president. For his most fervant, devoted followers, that realization will come with great difficulty, if at all. That is perhaps most tragic of all.