Trump, Actualizing

WHEN A GOOD FRIEND OF CALLED TRUMP "that orange haired Hitler" shortly after Der Fuhrer became president, I dismissed the remark as angry, bitter, hyperbole, an outburst of bad shortsmanship. Hillary had been cheated out of the presidency. She got three million more votes than our American HItler, and, surely, surely one of those states that Trump won by a few thousand votes had been stolen, rigged, and therefore a recount was essentail. We Hlllary-ites conveniently omit mention that after her election defeat, we libdems had our own concerns and misconceptions and paranoia about voter fraud, a stolen election, only not nearly as zelously, insanely intense as those of Trumpers, and, unlike them, we did not seem determined to carry our suspicions and our grudge to our graves. Hillary had been ahead in all the polls for months; how could she possibly have lost!? Well, the simple answer is that whereas the polls had predicted anywhere from a two point to ten point win for Hillary, indeed she won the popular vot by two percentage points, 51 to 49.....but..we all know, its the infamous and malicious electoral college that matters, not people's votes. Well, then the highly demanded recounts all took place, and not surprisingly, Trump's margin of victory only increased, but by a small enough margin to make it seem like salt in the wound. Gradually but steadily over the years since 2016 my friend's dire Hitlerian-Trumparian remarks seemed first less out of bounds, then increasingly less outlandish, less hyperbolic, more and more reasonable, until now. Now, it seems like a prophecy. It seems dead on. If you think this sounds like a warning, it is. Trump is beginning to talk more and more every day, as the election and his many court trials approach and Trump's desperation increases. It may well be that here in the great American fun house, Trump's words and deeds, and the complicated stew of circumstances that is our beloved 'merurca, will all combine in some inscrutable quantum mechanical manner to produce a perfect storm of ultimate calamity; the election of Donald J. Trump, accused felon and all, once again to the highest office in the land. Oh heaven forbid, but it might happen. More likely though is that over the next few months, Trump will destroy himself as the supercharged chaotic insanity of his screeds bestroys him when it detonates. The other day, he screamned that on his first day in office he will become a dictator (he says this often), and will decreee by executive order a complete ban on teaching the history and current state of racism in American public schools,and will prohibit any mention of LGBTQ people, expecially their current movement to gain equality. He would also prohibit by decree the teaching of climate change, and would sanction the banning of books, including books written by liberals and explaining subjects based on progressive realities. In short, the liberal-progresive point of view, and anything which bears it out, would be strictly prohibited in public schools under Herr Trump. Also, unflattering monographs about himself, but he didn't mention these. Even Donald Trump only has so much time, and con only cover so many seminal topis in pne speech orMAGA campaign rally. But no worries. He'll have numerous opprtunities to cover the rest of it, to explain his complete plans for his next presidency, in near future MAGA hate-fests. Precisely how the nation responds to the exploding depravity is the key. It all boils down to who is the more numerous, the fascist Trumpler mob, or, we the Americans of moral values, intelligence, and love of country and constitution.