Trump, Being Trump

OF ALL THE INSANE, INANE REMARKS ever uttered by the prevaricator in chief, and there have been thousands, the latest one, the one about eating disinfectants to cure the Covid 19 virus, may be the most idiotic and the most potentially damaging yet. The nightmarish image of millions of disinfected Trump supporters making america great again in intensive care units, while alluringly humorous, would in fact be a further burden on an already much over burdened hospital, medical health, and medical insurance system. The questions, like a neglected white elephant in a crowded room, remains: why does trump incessantly say stupid things, and why do his supporters seem to not care? The ancient observation: "against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain' seems to apply. Conservative capitalistic Christians, the "Jesus, guns, and Money" crowd as gore Vidal termed it, in order to avoid perceived threats to its values, is willing to deny the reality of evolution and climate change, willing to turn a blind eye to Trump's spectacularly sinful, criminal, treasonous words and deeds, willing to pretend that the United states was founded upon "Christian" values, was intended by its founders to be a Christian country, and tp deny that socialism exists or works in America, when clearly it does both. This requires considerable self deception, and Christian conservatives, though well suited by nature to this seemingly impossible level of self deceit, accomplish it impressively. It may be that we never fully understand why the evangelical com,unity so strongly supports a president who lies constantly, is an acknowledged sexual predator, and whose personal conduct has always represented the exact opposite of supposedly "Christian" values. We can, however, console ourselves with teh comforting fact that at least as of now America's hospitals and mortuaries do not appear to be filling up with folks clutching Bibles, handguns, and wearing MAGA caps, victims of self inflicted Lysol poisoning or windmill cancer.