What an election year! I feel like I’ve been transported through a cosmic squirrel hole and into a baffling political universe where facts are fiction, bizarre is normal and corruption is a virtue. Am I hallucinating? Or has this insanity really happened?
Since I can’t yet conjure up the deep meanings (or lack thereof) in this year’s national vote, I’ll offer instead a reflection on some of the oddities from this rutted and potholed general election road we’ve traveled, jouncing through the destruction brought largely by the furies howling from deep within the Donald.
Here’s Trump on his own splendiforousness:
“No one RESPECTS WOMEN more than me.”
“Nobody BUILDS WALLS better than me, believe me.”
“MY IQ is one of the highest.”
“Nobody knows more about TAXES than me.”
“Nobody knows BANKING better than I do.”
“I have a great relationship with THE BLACKS.”
“There’s nobody that’s done so much for EQUALITY as I have.”
“I’m the LEAST RACIST person you’ll ever meet.”
“Nobody’s ever been more SUCCESSFUL than me.”
“Nobody knows THE SYSTEM better than me.”
“I’m REALLY RICH. And by the way, I’m not even saying that in a braggadocious way.”
“There’s nobody who feels more strongly about WOMEN’S HEALTH ISSUES!”
“There has to be SOME FORM OF PUNISHMENT” for women who seek abortions.
Finally, who can forget Trump’s assessment of his own magnificence in a 2015 Lincoln Day speech, when he declared, “Bing bing, bong bong, bing bing.” Honest Abe couldn’t have said it better, could he?
Trump’s limitless ego wasn’t the worst of the spectacle, of course. Again and again this year, packs of Republican Congress critters rushed to the media to denounce the boorish comments and bullying behavior of their party’s presidential nominee. And then having blasted Trump as being somewhere between thuggish and morally depraved, they proceeded to urge voters to elect the brute our nation’s leader.
The worst of these gutless lawmakers are the top two GOP leaders: House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Like clowns in a jack-in-the-box, they kept popping out to decry the Donald’s latest attack on the people he hates. Then these pitiful two leaders meekly folded back into the box, reiterating that, well, they would still endorse him to be president of our United States of America!
Source: Salon: in-depth news, politics, business, technology & culture > Politics
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