The authoritarian, bigoted Trump won the Iowa Caucus in a landslide. The race for the Republican nomination for president is over. This is frightening, of course, because this mentally ill, below average intelligence, vengeful and cruel overgrown child is going to have a real chance to destroy American democracy and establish himself as the next King George III, which is exactly what the Founding Fathers fought and died for to free America from the original King George III, and tried to make sure we never got another king nor a new Caesar.
But...
The MAGA Cult wants a cruel king (who poops his pants, by the way). They mistakenly confuse cruelty with strength.
In 2022 during the Primary Season, Trumpist Election Denying candidate after Trumpist Election Denying candidate won Republican primary elections. MAGA was ecstatic and triumphant! And guess what? Most of them lost.
So, maybe we can actually celebrate that the disgusting leader of the MAGA Cult will be the nominee and will lose, just like his MAGA proxies lost in 2022. A big problem with all of them is that they are deeply unpleasant people in addition to being extremist fanatics.
Trump, of course, will claim, as he always claims, that his loss was "rigged" and will try to lead a violent overthrow of the election. So, that is a real danger, but our country has beaten down right wing extremists before - the NAZI "America Firsters" in the '30s - the Jim Crow KKK led racists in the South for nearly a century after they lost the Civil War until the Civil Rights Movement stirred the conscience of the nation in the '60s.
Right wing extremists keep thinking that force of will and violence will put them on the top of the heap, but they lose, because what they actually end up doing is awaken the conscience of a decent American nation.
I choose to believe that the goodness of America is stronger than the fears and violence of our white supremacist, theocratic and Oligarchic neighbors. I just hope they don't do too much damage this time around.
