Corrupting and Purging

DONALD TRUMP, in his infinite lack of wisdom, is hard at it again. meddling with the federal judiciary, and lying about it. The hoped for lessons from his impeachment ordeal seem not to have been learned, unsurprising, considering the president's decided lack of moral character and stable genius. Instead, he seems to have interpreted the Senate's failure to do its duty as carte blanche for his corrupt behavior. To wit, the tweets they are a flyin'. Unless the federal magistrate bucks up, she might well sentence Mr. Stone to two weeks for witness tampering and intimidation, Mr. Stone, the career political operative dash criminal with the Nixon tattoo on his white supremacist ass. Mr roger Stone, with a wealth of incriminating information on Trump, dirt the president would doubtless rather let lie hidden. Just the other day at my local senior an old curmudgeon, a normally taciturn, bitter, personality free sort, proclaimed our president to be among our best ever. As you may have guessed, the Trump supporter is an evangelical, who is convinced his ticket into heaven is one way, and is living out his few remaining days awaiting the arrival of the Lord, sword in hand. By the way the great god in the sky condescends to descend, Trump will likely be out of office, second term or no, and equally likely is that the sun will have exhausted its last gram of hydrogen. The curmudgeon, who has accused Democrats of plotting the extermination of Jews, as well as fabricating accusations to level at the very stable genius who makes perfect phone calls, complained that he is tired of people calling him and his ilk "idiots". For my part, I plead guilty. But I don't stop there. I further accuse anyone who supports this president of being morally bankrupt, and, for those claiming to be Christian, of being pseudo Christian, like pyrite, fool's gold. I accuse Trump supporters, all forty nine percent of them, of being accessories to the crimes of a proven criminal, the proof having come in abundantly redundant testimony by none other than many members of Trump's inner circle, most of whom are presently being purged from the gang, remindful of Nixon's Saturday night massacre, or Hitler's Krystallnacht. Comparisons of Trump and his supporters to cults and NAZIs become more apropos daily. The blatant lawnessness,and the zealotry with which the cult members approve of it, whether tacitly, explicitly, or by denial. With the great reprobate's reelection seeming increasingly, frighteningly likely, all sane citizens (Trump resisters) shudder at the thought at the depths to which the president and his supporter might sink after January 20, 2021. an even greater fear, not unreasonable, is that Trump, having already staged no less than two coups, could declare a fabricated national emergency to avoid leaving office at all, with the full support of his adoring, amoral cult. This very thought is sufficient to make even unbelievers hope desperately that the Lord does indeed return and put an end to all this, sooner, rather than later.