Trump Just Being Trump

THROUGHOUT HIS FIRST and I hope only term as president, president trump has continued to have these huge, loud, high energy campaign rallies, almost as if the election had never happened, and he still running for president, or can't stop running for president, or decided to stat the campaign for a second term ten day after his first term began. Of all the crazy things he has done and does, and there are many, this is perhaps teh craziest of all, these frenetic, boisterous, angry campaign rallies, without and apparent purpose other than to keep Trump's small and shrinking base from dissolving altogether. At these rallies Trump is at his worst, screaming false promises to his adoring mob and vicious insults at his political opponents. His most recent involves yelling at a protester that she really had a weight problem. As always, his mob hooted and roared with agreement and approval. This begs the question: exactly how presidential is it for the American president to ridicule someone about bieng overweight during a speech? Or, is it presidential at all? It is even remotely acceptable? Not to intelligent people, it isn't. Third grade children get in trouble for behaving this way. That's the alarming aspect: that there are actually millions of Americans who either approve of Trump's crude, crass behavior, who are not aware of it, or who simply do not care, and choose to ignore it. None of these options reflects favorably upon the people who choose them. Upon examination, the Trump mob, those who attend rallies and those who do not, are no better than he, Trump, their inspiration and leader, whose behavior they seem to not only admire, but wish to emulate. Every face at these rallies is white, loud, and angry, the mouth either wide open yelling or twisted into some hateful grimacing sneer. Trump and his supporters are so disillusioned with this world, that they spew anger incessantly, and create their own fantasy version, in which 'white" people once again dominate America, and all the rest. They long for a simpler past, and seek to return to it. They seem to approve of Trump's insult mongering, almost as if he echos their own sentiments. it is a frightening situation, with forty percent of the country angry, immersed in fantasy, and violent, wanting to turn back the clock by decades and willing to do whatever it takes, including inciting war, to achieve that dubious end. All one need do is compare the Trump position on climate change, foreign relations, and most other areas of concern, with the progressive position, and its obvious the progressives accept reality, and the Trump folks reject it. We must somehow find a way to make America sane, honest, and intelligent again,including a great moral revival to inspire the hearts and souls of America's conservative evangelical Trump community, and return those poor captured souls to health, and to God.