Going High

 DO NOT CALL DONALD TRUMP AN IDIOT, (even though he is one), I spent four miserable years admonishing folks; idiots reveal their own idiocy. When we berate Trump with epithets and insults, accurate or not, we only lower ourselves to his level of indecency. Pay no attention to Trump's flaming orange hair, on days when it flames orange; insult not the sexual behavior of his wife, for thou know not what it is, and, besides, its irrelevant. Advice like this frustrates and angers Trump haters. Their pettiness fully exposed, the anger they should reserve for themselves they cold shoulder upon me. I'll live. One of my long lost friends from early childhood, whom I found on Facebook, kept calling Trump an "idiot", but never said anything else about him. I admonished him to always refer to Trump's specific words and deeds when criticizing, for therein lies the proof. Unconversant with them, my childhood friend reminded me that I am neither his teacher nor parent. My relief was profound. A well informed trump despiser needn't resort to name calling; the field is far richer than that. Donald Trump's words and deeds clearly reveal his cruelty, immorality, and idiocy, and his continued support of his followers, post insurrection, reveals theirs. It is thus quite enough for us the sane and decent to phlegmatically mention that is is not a good idea, for instance, in the land of liberty, for a president, with but two weeks left in office, to try to incite and angry violent mob of punks, thugs, and terrorists to lay siege to the Capitol building in an attempt to turn a democratic republic into a dictatorship. On that day, Trump and everyone who supports him thereafter became criminals and traitors, if they weren't already. To so identify them is not gratuitous slander; it is fact. That they are "idiots" is, like Franklin said when editing Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, "self evident".  We needn't point that out explicitly. Likewise, it isn't a good idea for a head of state to tell an average of twenty five egregious lies per day, or for millions of supporters to support them. The list goes on. It matters not whether the two thirds of registered Republicans who still believe that the election was stolen and that the insurrection was a good idea are in Peoria, Portland, or your local senior center; traitors they are, like Trump. Traitors, and liars. When the contest, football, tennis, or election, is over, decent people who were raised right shake hands and congratulate each other. Trump and his cult followers, as their words and deeds demonstrate, are morally incapable of decency.