Rallying, Attacking, Distracting

WHY, when one has been president for more than two years, and the next election is a year and a half away, does a president need or desire to have campaign style rallies, other than excessive narcissism, an excessive desire for immediate adoring attention from a mob, an extremely insecure, sensitive ego constantly in need of emotional nourishment? Another possibility is that the president is aware that his reelection chances depend entirely on some mixture of sensational behavior on his part and prefabricated events, combined with some sudden emergency crisis to be determined later, owing to historically low approval ratings and diminishing chances of reelection. Trump's mobsters like the rallies. Trump rants, they rant back, and everybody vents anger. Now that Hillary is old news, and quite obviously going to neither be indicted, tried, nor imprisoned for anything, the mob and its mob boss must find other prey. The perfect target is Alexandria Ostacio-Cortez, for several reasons. Primarily, she's a progressive, what we used to call "liberal", and that alone makes her a prime target for Trump, who would himself be quite happy to be a progressive, if is furthered his advancement, and in fact has at various times has been one. Secondly, Cortez is a woman, and one with whom Trump could definitely not get away with sexually molesting, notwithstanding his fame and fortune. Those kind bother him, in more ways than one. Then too, she is highly intelligent and well educated, properties Trump lacks. One of his former professors as the University of Pennsylvania recently described him as the dumbest student ever to set foot on campus. Cortez is outspoken, and obviously not afraid of Trump and Trump's gang, ready to trade shots any old time. None of that endears her to the misogynist in chief. Throw in her attractiveness, and the die is cast; she will be attacked by Trump, and his spawn. Cortez's response to the "Cortez sucks" chant at the mob gathering in Michigan was a bit disappointing: that Trump, in the absence of Hillary, is looking for a new women to abuse, and has now found one. She left out the part about Trump being a self proclaimed proud sex offender who has abused all three of his wives either by cheating on them or marrying them, that the president is a painfully insecure and overly sensitive damaged soul which can probably be accounted for by having been raised by an overbearing, impossible to please father. Trump has troubles ahead. Mueller did more than exonerate him of collusion with the Russians. He investigated a number of different avenues of criminality, and including substantial evidence gathering, then turned them all over to state law enforcement agencies whose eventual criminal indictments will be beyond the president's power to pardon. Manafort and Cohen, names which may still ring a bell, talked to the law about things other than collusion to win an election; they talked about all manner of Trump family shadiness, mostly having to so with money matters, all serious in nature, all felonious. Trump supporters are generally behaving as if their icon's legal troubles are over, and as if its told you so rub it in time. They are quite mistaken. Many investigations continue, and will have damaging results for Trump. There will be no retaliation for teh trauma and insult of Mueller by Trump and his adoring mob, against the media, the Democrats, against the fictitious deep state, or anybody else. There are no available targets. Mueller's investigation was above board, perfectly, legal, perfectly appropriate, and there exists no conspiracy against Trump, other than the law and the truth. All this tough talk about getting even with the instigators of the Mueller investigation serve the same purpose as attacking Alexandria Cortez; distraction. The inevitable demise of Trump and his mob movement,, at the hands of justice according to due process, not only will not be deterred, it will not even be delayed.