Silly
president.
Donald
Trump believes that he can never be wrong about anything, except in
this week’s Alabama special election, he pulled out all the
stops to try to get disgraced judge, Roy Moore, elected to the U.S.
Senate, so he would have a safe Republican majority when it comes
time for the big GOP “tax reform” bill that’s
waiting for a vote.
Though
Moore was accused by many women of sexual misconduct or assault,
Trump waited quite a while before he would speak up for Moore,
endorse him, and then campaign for him, all the while keeping in mind
that even more women have accused Trump of similar sexual offenses.
When
the breakdown of political party votes over decades in Alabama is
considered, the victory of Doug Jones, his Democratic opponent, the
election turned out to be a landslide for Jones, something that Trump
and other Republicans thought would be impossible. It’s why
Trump spent such a large portion of his political capital on Moore.
Not only is he desperate to get his “tax reform” bill
passed, he really does not have much in the way of legislative
accomplishments in his first year (not counting his administration’s
intent to “destroy the administrative state.”
After
spending his political capital on Moore’s campaign and losing
(doesn’t that make him a loser?), the first thing he did on
Wednesday morning was tweet that he knew all along that Moore could
not win the special election. It was the reason, he wrote, that he
backed Luther Strange in the GOP primary against Moore.
Nevertheless, when Moore defeated Strange, he began to move toward
Moore and, in the end, his full-throated endorsement of the former
judge indicated that he did, indeed, feel that Moore was a winner in
Alabama.
Big
mistake, silly president. In his entire life, Donald Trump never has
wanted for anything and things seemed to fall into his lap in his
real estate adventures. Always the blowhard (mostly in praise of his
own prowess and looks), he relished conquering his adversaries in the
business of dealing in real estate and construction. Not jokingly,
he described his start in business life as having obtained a “small
loan” from his father of a million dollars (or two?) to start
his business. If that doesn’t describe a privileged rich kid
who expects everyone to move aside as he passes, there is not much
that will.
He
has found as president that the wheels of government and the will of
the people do not move as fast as he would like. Sometimes, they do
not move at all. All the riches in the world will not move every
last citizen to do his will. In his endorsement of Moore, Trump was
supporting someone for high office that believed that times were
better in the mid-19th Century, even though slavery was
still a solidly entrenched institution. Moore said that families in
those times were intact and that might be partially true, if slave
families were excluded. He didn’t weigh in on whether it was a
good thing that slave families were separated and sold never to be
together again.
That
would sit well with Trump, whose racist inclinations have been front
and center in so many areas, but particularly, in his diatribes
against professional football players who take a knee during the
national anthem to protest police killings of unarmed black citizens
and the racism that is found throughout the country. And, his
infamous statement after the violence in Charlottesville, Va.,
earlier this year, that there were “good people on both sides.”
In
case he didn’t recognize it, on one side were neo-Nazis and
white supremacists and on the other side were protesters in favor of
civil rights and human rights and the right of black citizens to be
safe from police brutality and the general brutality of a nation that
continues to have a residue of racism even in the best of most
official functions of government. That’s why Trump and the
Right Wing in America just will not tolerate groups and movements
such as Black Lives Matter, who point out the racism for all to see.
Trump’s and the GOP’s propaganda have tried to paint BLM
as a hate group or a “terrorist” organization, while
giving right-wing paramilitaries and Nazis and white supremacists a
pass.
As always, Trump tried
to make the best out of his Moore loss by lying and saying that he
knew that Moore could not win. The lie, of course, is that he was
quite certain that, with his endorsement and support, Moore would
win. His statement in the wake of the Moore loss, therefore, was the
lie of the day. Usually, though, there are more than a few lies each
day.
He
shows every day, as he makes a stab at acting presidential that he
has not a clue what it takes to even pretend to be the chief
executive. Now, he can go back to trying to maintain a majority in
the Senate, where the fate of his tax increase (for the 90 percent of
the people) and the tax cuts for himself, his family, Corporate
America, and the rich 1 percent and their minions in the other 9
percent. While middle class families might realize some tax relief
in the first half of the next decade, overall, the “reform”
benefits Trump and other rich Americans and corporations.
This
silly president owns the Moore loss, no matter how much Moore thinks
he might have won or should have won. And, it makes Trump what has
been his scariest nightmare: A loser.
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