Editorial,
The Week in Review – Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
08.20.2016
May You Live in
Interesting Times ~ Ancient Curse
Part Two
Donald Trump; the T-Rump is at it again. He is giving the media the
razzle dazzle, doing everything he can to suck up every bit of the attention
the entire media establishment has to offer.
He thinks he is making things interesting. Instead, he is writing a
tragedy. The American people are losing, everyday his bid for the presidency
continues. He hurts our hope in democracy, as he proves old Socrates, and Plato
correct; democracy is the worst of government because it panders to, and
devolves toward the lowest common denominator.
It was time for damage control. to cap off a dismal two weeks, in which T-Rump
was plummeting in the polls: he fired or demoted the campaign staff that had
been trying to orchestrate a turn-around for him. T-Rump decided to blame those
who had been counseling him to get him to moderate his behavior. He blamed them,
not himself, for his precipitous slip in the polls. T-Rump decided to blame
them for attempting to present him in a different, more serious light, rather
than accept the blame for his own reckless comments during the same period of
time.
He received positive press every time he stepped up to the podium to give
a focused speech, every time he managed to “stay on message.” It is clear that
the task was awkward for him, but the media narrative at those points was always
positive. The narrative would lift into a discussion of a T-Rump turn around,
but then he would falter. In that same period of time he would also go off
script. He engaged in a small minded, mean fight with the parents of an Army
captain, a Muslim, the son of immigrants, who gave his life in combat for the
United States, in Iraq, in 2004. He fought with them, he belittled them. It was
contemptible.
Senior Republicans, office holders and other party members began to
abandon him, to publicly declaim him.
T-Rump called for his supporters, for the group of them who are vocal
proponents of the (loosely interpreted) second amendment; he called on them to
take action against Hillary Clinton, or the judges she might appoint, should
she win the election to the Presidency. He lied about her intentions regarding
gun-control, and he tacitly called for her to be assassinated by the “second
amendment people”.
He spent days telling his crowds that President Barrack Obama, and his
opponent Hillary Clinton, were the founders of the terrorist group ISIS. He
repeated these charges to his supporters, over, and over, and over. These
comments were met with incredulity, even by those who are friendly to him. With
each of these blunders his standing in the polls dropped. He tried to distance
himself from his own words, pretending it was all just sarcasm, but who could
take him seriously.
Instead of taking responsibility for this himself; looking to his own
words and deeds as the explanatory events leading to those falling numbers. T-Rump
blamed the people that were attempting to modulate his behavior; those
counselling change. Then he hired the media king of all bluster to take over
his campaign; the chief of Breitbart news, Stephen Bannon. This is an
indication that T-Rump has no desire to get serious, he believes in his
eventual, predictable, inevitable defeat. And now he wants to light it up, no
matter how much harm he does to our institutions in the process.
A scorched earth strategy is underway. T-Rump will destroy everything he sees
in his losing bid for the presidency.
America will pay the price.
