Reconsidering Trump

THE SPIRIT OF PROTEST is again in the air. Its vaguely remindful of those halcyon anti-Viet Nam pro gender equality pro racial equality anti-establishment protest days of the nineteen sixties and seventies, before Reagan came along and assured us that everything was just fine. Once again, everybody seems to be protesting everything. The day after the election, hundreds of thousands of good patriotic Americans took to the streets to protest the results. On Trump's first day in office, one million women descended on Washington in protest, while millions of other women and their male friends did likewise in cities all across America's fruited plain and around the world. Then came the immigration ban on Muslims and many more protests at many airports. Its been one damned thing after another, like a famous historian once described history itself. And it promises to get worse, or better, depending on how you look at it, as Trump shows no signs of easing up on his crazy, provocative twitter tweeting or easing up on any of the other self destructive forms of behavior in which he daily engages. Opposition to Trump shows no sign of abating, and every sign of growing and intensifying. The next big protest may be a world wide demonstration, including Russians, demanding the president's impeachment and removal from office, depending on what ongoing investigations reveal about Trump's and Trump's campaign and organization's actual relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin. It looks worse by the day. Now we know, for instance, that Trump's people were talking extensively to high ranking Russian spies during the campaign, and that those same Russian spies were trying to help Trump defeat Hillary. As Trump himself might tweet: "Not good. Bad, Very very bad, so totally crooked". And, by the way, anybody who actually believes that Trump is some kind of "populist", some kind of advocate for the working poor, and anything other than a member of the "establishemt" (aka the wealthy corporate elite) should reconsider, and any Trump supporter who believes that Trump is working for them rather than himself and his wealthy powerful friends, like Wall Street billionaires and Vladimir Putin, should also reconsider.