After Trump was clearly on his way to winning the Republican Party nomination the first time, I wrote on March 2, 2016:
“ America has been very, very lucky so far. We have not been guilty of electing monsters to be our leaders. There have been many presidents that have engendered a lot of opposition, but none have been actual monsters.
Other countries have to live with a past that includes monsters. Italy had Mussolini (whom Trump consciously or unconsciously mimics in his face and body language); Italy also had Caesar; Russia had Stalin, (and Lenin, and Peter the Great, and now Putin), China had Mao Tse Tung (and a few thousand years of brutal rulers); Japan had crazed generals; and of course Germany had Hitler. These countries all lost their innocence long ago. They were seduced by authoritarian leaders who became monstrous despots and war mongers.”
Well, here we are. Part 2. Monster. Trump is a monster. He is on the verge of starting WWIII. Why? To avoid dying in prison once his horrendous perverted sexual crimes are revealed in the Epstein Files. So he creates endless headlines distractions - attack Venezuela, release the JFK assassination files, release UFO files, attack Iran, threaten Greenland (again), threaten Cuba… and the distractions just keep on coming…
Trump has no empathy, no compassion, no normal human sensitivities. He is mentally ill, a psychotic narcissist who is incapable of having even the slightest concern for anyone or anything other than himself. He is terrified of being seen as a loser, and he has lost the war against Iran. The theocratic zealots running Iran are as nuts as Trump, but in a theological way rather than a mental illness way (though psychopaths are probably in charge there too)
So, here we are. Our country was ripe for the seduction of a cruel monster, and gave him the keys to… our laws, our health, our safety, our prosperity, our very survival… and that was a very terrible mistake.
What comes first? His collapsing, demented body gives out?… or the end of America and millions of innocent lives?
So, America’s luck ran out. The darkest and most destructive and hate filled parts of America were courted, seduced, and dominated by its chosen monster. But since we are America, it is not just America paying this terrible price, but rather the entire world is paying while we wring our hands and flailingly try to stop the madness.
The survival of us all is in the hands of the Republican House and Senate. Without them the monster rages unchecked. We rise up. We resist. We expose. We try to persuade. But we might not make it to January 2027 with a new Congress and Senate. That might be too late.
We need Republicans to take heroic steps and turn on the monster that they chose. We need them to do the hardest of all things, admit they made a mistake, and correct it.
Republicans need to impeach him before it is too late.
