Trump, Limping to the Finish Line

IT APPEARS LIKELY that Trump will strike Iran again soon. It almost seems as if he is going to use an occasional missile attack on Iran to demonstrate his power,his macho determiation to back up his threats,or, whatever. He doesn't rally have to declare war on Iran, and launch an all out, devastating attack reducing the country to rubble, and probably arousing the anger of the world, thereby making things much more complicated for him and for the United States He has the option that he has evidently already chosen; that of hitting a specific target, or launching a missile or bomb and then claiming to have hit the intended military target, no matter what it actually hits. The Epstein files not only do not seem to be going away, it looks as of now as though the Democrats are going to milk them for all they're worth. At least, if they're smart they will. And indeed, in this dy and age, if the current president of the United States previously engaged in sexual misconduct of a shockingly criminal nature, no matter how long ago, it must be revealed to us, the people. Kennedy's was not. Nor was that of all the other presidents, most of whom, it seems likely, engaged in sexual misconduct of one sort or another. Its hard to imagine George Washington committing adultery, although in oint of fact he may well have and if so, was not fundamentally different from most other menofwealth and pwer at the time, or any time. It may be that Trump is the worst offender of all forty seven POTUSes. Kennedy, LBJ, and several others were no slouches, so to speak, in their womanizing. Power, fame, and wealth, are the three qualities in men to whom most women seem attracted,as well as your every day physical attraction. No matter how shocking and sordid whatever revelations about Trump eventually are,the best guess is that his fulct followers will ontinue their persistant behavior of minimizing, ignoring, or distorting the facts pertianing to their icon's behavior, find ways of downplaying or justifying it, and continue as cult members.Sixty percent of the American people now oppose Trump, and they not only oppose him, they despise him. Trump is one of those love 'em or hate 'em people; sixty percent of us despise him with a passionate, burning hatred. I for one had never truly been aware of my capacity for hatred, until Trump. Evidently this is a feature of my being which I had preferred to ignore, but no longer can. As has always been the case with me, I reserve my greatest disgust andcontempt not for Trump, but for his followers, all seventy five million of them, or however many there still are in his apparently shrinking support base. Two potential assassins nearly killed Trump. Arguably, it is a miracle he is still alive. His religious supporters can argue wwith confidence that only God's direct intervention, which got him elected in the first place under unlikely circumstances, have kept him alive to this point. You beign to wonder how low his approval rating can sink, or how it could possible change direction and begin to increase. Invariably, when a president loses the appproval and support of we the people, he never getsit back. The election this November seems destined to either dramatically reduce Trump's support in Congress, or to elect a majority congress of Trump opponents. He'll end his term, in the best case scenario, limping along with only fractional support, accomplishing nothing, and, at long last, doing no harm, for probably the first time in his miserable existence.