Trump, Digging In Deeper

IN HIS FIRST STATEMENT after the tragic white supremacist march, President Trump equated the white supremacists with the progressive people who protested against them, morally. Then, under immense pressure, he corrected himself by condemning the right winger white supremacists, but apparently didn't enjoy doing so, because the very next day he reiterated that he stands behind his first version, the extremely politically incorrect one. That's Trump; crazy. Dude's got a big mouth, flat out. He cannot stand to be criticized, and vengefully retaliates, and of course, lies like a dog. But wait. It gets even better. Or worse. Several CEOs jumped Trump's ship, resigning from Trump's economic advisory council, which Trump decided to disband, after berating the CEOs on Twitter, about their being grand standers, or something. Can you imagine that; Donald J. Trump having the nerve to call somebody else, anybody else, a "grand stander"? So now our delusionally dishonest president invents an imaginary "alt left", and places it on equal moral footing as the infamous "alt right". Maybe the alt left would indeed be nefarious - if it existed. The alt right, which is very real, is very nefarious, and is Trump's strongest support base. It becomes increasingly amazing that anyone can continue to support Trump. And just who are Trump's staunchest supporters? David Duke and Richard Spencer, white supremacists deluxe, the very cream of the white supremacy crop of bigots. Those two, plus several million of their ilk, aka the "trump base". Naturally, the Trump inner circle is attempting to distance themselves from that part of his base, even to the point of denying that white racist America is even a part of it. But, alas, it is, and a big part indeed. Indeed only thirty five percent of us support Trump, far less when you subtract the racists. Trump himself encourages this type of support by complaining about the removal of Confederate monuments and by equating Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis with Jefferson and Washington. No, Trump just could not be content to condemn the white supremacist conservative Christians, and leave it at that, because, after all, that is his base. Not only does Trump consider the white supremacist fascists to be as morally virtuous as those who oppose them, he seems to consider Robert E. Lee as worthy of honoring as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. The latter two had considerably different attitudes towards slavery, and whether slavery should be abolished, or defended on the battle field. In life, if you choose the wrong side, you accept the consequences. Trump and his base of extreme conservative Christian racist supporters are about to figure that out, but maybe not before its too late to save themselves.