Mitt Marching up the Hill, Loaded For Trump, Without The Bark

BIRNAM WOOD hath come to Dunsinane. That was bad news for MacBeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth", and its bad news for president Trump, substituting Mitt Romney's arrival in the Senate, and the arrival of a bevy of Democrats in the House of representatives for the guys behind the trees moving inexorably up the hill to reclaim the throne of Scotland for its rightful occupant, King Duncan, and substituting President Trump for the usurper MacBeth, the good guy gone bad when three witches, the weird sisters, foretold Macbeth's royal destiny at the beginning of the drama, thus motivating Macbeth's subsequent murderous bad behavior and very illegal rise to the kingship. Who plays the part of the weird sister witches in Trump's melodrama? Family members? Russians? Steve Bannon and Sean Hannity? In Macbeth the wife encouraged the usurpation. Melania seems less ambitious - but who knows? Pick your poison. Or maybe nobody had to talk the Don into anything; maybe he is his own weird sister. Mitt's arrival on capital hill as the new junior Senator from the great state of Utah, where Mormons elected a Mormon, is perhaps even more ominously portentous than that of the new Democratic house majority. This, because Romney despises Trump as much as any Democrat or upstanding sane citizen ever thought of doing, for many reasons, reasons having to do with character and character and assassination, among other reasons, and the Republican Senate majority is not all that huge, fifty three to forty seven. To wit, Trump needs all the help he can get, as he awaits probable multiple investigations, and Mitt is not the only Republican who has seen enough of Trump's weirdness. The extended real life metaphor has limits: Trump cannot actually be accused of being a "usurper"; as far as anyone knows he murdered nobody and usurped nobody to become president, even though Hillary Clinton got three million more votes than he and Mueller has already found a few bodies. However, if the Mueller investigation in the fullness of time reveals that Trump and his cohorts did in fact conspire with Russian internet operatives to steal the election by influencing it illegally, as is speculated and is what is being investigated, then the "usurper" hashtag is back in play, and Trump's ultimate fate might not so far fetchedly different than that of poor, super ambitious, super paranoid King MacBeth the Temporary. Trump and Romney go way back, acrimoniously. Most recently, Mitt video recorded a dire warning to the nation not to chose Trump as the Republican nominee during the 2016 primaries, for all the right reasons, having to do with greed, dishonesty, bad character, bad temperament, and bad ideas. Later, you might recall, Trump dangled the Secretary of State job like a carrot in front of Romney, only to retract it at the last moment, and choose someone else, namely, Rex Tillerson. And now, here comes Mitt, without even bothering to shield himself with tree bark, striding up capitol hill, already attacking the president by telling the truth about him, which of course is always the fail safe approach, and in the case of Donald Trump, without any alternative being necessary. For the denouement, in which Lady Trump and the orange crowned king either somehow survive by doing away with everyone who can bring him down, as Macbeth tried to do and Trump indeed seems to be trying to do, or the royal pair, Donald and Melania, meet the same bloody fate as Shakespeare's protagonists, we simply say: stay tuned, soon, the curtain will descend, one way or another.