I know. I said I would never blog about Trump ever again. I just can’t help myself. It’s becoming a catharsis. I had to do this because this Glenn Beck conversation could not dovetail any tighter with my last two Trump blogs.
What Donald Trump does not seem to understand is there are a lot of shit for brains people like this walking around in our gun obsessed society that consider his hateful, vitriolic rhetoric inspiring, and of course the ironic result here is Mr. Trump’s inflammatory discourse is inflaming at least a few of his die-hard supporters to consider reprisals against him should he not produce the promises he has so emphatically and carelessly made.
Working the Crowd
Most of Mr. Trump’s policies lack substance, but his most fervent supporters have to feel Trump is mind-dicking them with his immigration policy. During the primaries he insisted he would form some kind of goon squad to round up all 11 million undocumented immigrants and send them back over the Mexican border. Dangling that juicy worm in front of those who are fed up with politics as usual proved to be very effective bait to hook a good percentage of us. (Yes, include me in the group of disaffected, but not in the group that supports Trump or believes anything he says). It appears his new campaign manager finally did what several of his primary opponents couldn’t do and explain the folly of this totally unworkable solution. But waffling on this was apparently what triggered the appalling rant with Glenn Beck mentioned above. The likely reason Trump canceled a couple of rallies during which he was to outline his immigration policy was because it suddenly dawned on him he didn’t quite think his proposal through. During a Fox News forum he went so far as to seek the advice of the studio audience to assist him in formulating his personal immigration strategy.http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a48000/trump-immigration-hannity/ Crowdsourcing your signature campaign issue-WTF?
Trump’s second, and always his fall back immigration position, is he will build a wall, and of course have Mexico pay for it. Both the goon squad and the wall ideas worked well in the primaries for him. They are simplistic approaches to complex problems that might resonate with people during the ramped up rhetoric of a political rally, but fall woefully short of substantive solutions when the time is taken to logically scrutinize them. And once again the “Trumpeter” went off on a tangent in front of an adoring crowd bugling one of his surreptitious songs that could very well motivate some unhinged looney to shoot somebody.http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/09/16/trump-clinton-secret-service-disarm/90523014/
It’s just this kind of trumpestuous (my word) rhetoric that could backfire (emphasis on fire) on Mr. Trump should he actually get elected.
This presidential race is turning out to be one of the most controversial in our history and it has revealed a dark side to our social fabric. What I once thought was scar tissue covering our nation’s wound of racism and bigotry has turned out to be a thick scab that has been ripped away and has disturbingly exposed a festering cyst of intolerance and narrow-mindedness. Surely we are better than this. Both candidates leave a lot to to be desired. But one of them almost proudly presents himself as representing everything reprehensible to anyone who believes in this country’s principles of democracy and, even worse in my opinion, conducts himself in ways that are aberrant to normal social behavior.
Like never before, most of us will be voting against a candidate rather than for one, or voting for a third party candidate because we understandably believe neither of the major party candidates are worthy of the office, or, sadly, so fed up we won’t vote at all. I caution you to chose your poison wisely. There is at present a very good chance that somehow the electoral process will uncannily align in a way that allows Donald Trump to become the next president of the United States. Think carefully about what could happen should this occur. The man exhibits almost every clinical marker of a sociopath and as we have seen time after time during this campaign, has anger issues that are dangerously problematic.
When this thing is all over, I am curious to see what the loser has to say. Social discourse in this country has plummeted to such a low point that it would not surprise me at all if the common courtesy of a congratulatory phone call is not extended. All of us should be better than this. We must be better than this.