I’m increasingly confident that the person who will save our democracy from Donald Trump is Donald Trump. The former president and insurrectionist-in-chief, shameless peddler of trinkets and shiny objects to his slack-jawed cult, and unrepentant grabber of pussies is becoming more unhinged by the day.
Let it be recorded that on Easter Sunday 2024, Donald Trump was the hardest-working psychopathic would-be dictator in show business, bar none. Credit where it’s due. Trump went absolutely shithouse on Truth Social, apparently spewing out 72 spittle-flecked attacks on his many enemies, probably including you. Here’s a taste of Trump’s prodigious Easter morning output:
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE “DERANGED” JACK SMITH, WHO IS EVIL AND “SICK,” MRS. FANI “FAUNI” WADE, WHO SAID SHE HARDLY KNEW THE “SPECIAL” PROSECUTOR, ONLY TO FIND THAT HE SPENT YEARS “LOVING” HER, LONG BEFORE THE GEORGIA PERSECUTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN (AND THEREBY MAKING THE CASE AGAINST ME NULL, VOID, AND ILLEGAL!), AND LAZY ON VIOLENT CRIME ALVIN BRAGG WHO, WITH CROOKED JOE’S DOJ THUGS, UNFAIRLY WORKING IN THE D.A.’s OFFICE, ILLEGALLY INDICTED ME ON A CASE HE NEVER WANTED TO BRING AND VIRTUALLY ALL LEGAL SCHOLARS SAY IS A CASE THAT SHOULD NOT BE BROUGHT, IS BREAKING THE LAW IN DOING SO (POMERANTZ!), WAS TURNED DOWN BY ALL OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES, AND IS NOT A CRIME. HAPPY EASTER
It’s almost stream of consciousness in a way, sort of like jazz, but with only one note, and that note is in all-caps. I heard Miles was going to do something like this right before Birth of the Cool, just rage-blow into his trumpet with no regard for melody, tempo, or changes, see what the haters think of that. Could have been interesting.
Unfortunately for Trump, his act has become tiresome, and his response has been to up the intensity. Sure, that’ll always play well to the MAGA dolts, because Trump’s crybaby tough-guy act reflects their inchoate feelings of anger and resentment toward the “elites” who look down on them and want to force everyone to be woke.
I’d argue that most MAGA cultists really don’t believe the Deep State is going after Trump because he’s “all that’s standing” between the radical communist prosecutors and God-fearing, Trump merch-wearing Americans. No, these people are in it for the hate rush. And pusherman Trump never disappoints.
There is, however, a larger audience out there that Trump needs to reach to beat President Biden, and it likely will be his undoing. To those millions of American voters who still consider themselves “undecided” about returning the instigator of an attempted overthrow of our government to the White House, there’s an excellent chance that Trump’s aberrant, disqualifying behavior will catch their attention. Repeated public outbursts of uncontrollable fury and vengeance have a way of doing that.
The thing is, Trump will only become more hyperbolic, more threatening in his language, and more explicit in his calls for violence should the election in November be “rigged” against him. There will be no general election pivot! And over the course of the campaign, Trump is going to come off as sinister, thuggish, and clownish to undecided voters.
In many cities there are people on the street who clearly are struggling with mental health issues. They rant, they rave, they are confrontational, and they are a threat to folks around them. If you are a decent human being, you feel bad for these individuals, even as they upset or frighten you. You have empathy. But I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t vote for them to run the country.
Over the next eight months, I expect, a growing number of non-MAGA Americans will come to view Trump as that deranged person on the street.
(From Project Orange: Saving Democracy From the Trump-MAGA Cult)