The Passion of the Trump

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by Glenn R. Geist

Of course you wrack your brain trying to figure out what it means and it could be that scholars will be doing that for a long time, particularly if some of my fears prove accurate. Everyone is talking about Trump being in “campaign” mode, but to someone my age it can’t help but remind me of Hitler’s massive and powerfully dramatic rallies, with huge banners and torchlight parades and chanting millions.

The Passion of the Trump is a bit different, of course — Nashville patriotism blares from huge speakers as the man of “accomplishment” having accomplished virtually nothing and well disliked, brags and struts about the stage, lacking only a chest full of medals to cement the appearance of tyranny. A man jumps out of the crowd to hug him. Has he not learned caution yet? But why? He seems to have convinced millions that the best and most reliable journalism is fake, phony, dishonest and malicious and that the very worst of the raving and the seething hate screamers need our support. Look only to him for truth says the cult leader – say all cult leaders.

Why are so many of us pathologically prone to being deceived; falling for scripts and scenarios and vicious lies with no basis in fact? Why in an era of instant news and easy access to facts do we act like New Guinea head hunters torturing their neighbors for confessions of witchcraft? If there is an answer perhaps it lies in some original defect that keeps us for long term success in making our lives better, that makes predictions of doom and lies about the present so tragically attractive and objectivity so repellent.

So adventavit assinus. So ecce tyrannis. So Veritas seditio and I’m running out of latin as I run out of hope that the traditional checks and balances of our Republic will be able to act in time to check the excesses of our so called president in time to preempt the idiot’s crusade, the peasant’s revolution, the collapse of truth, justice and the American economy. At a Trump rally in Kenosha, a man looking like he’d just won the Powerball lottery announces “and the jobs are coming back and they are going to make cars in Kenosha again!” with a born again fervor. I don’t think so. It’s not that prosperity is forever dead, it’s that it’s not going to be like the past any more. Capitalism dictates otherwise.

If History ever does repeat itself, it’s always in a new form and hard to recognize and progress is never served by going backwards. That original defect? Is it that we’re always looking for heroes in people who aren’t? Trump supporters don’t see Trump. They see their fears and desires in usurers and thieves and liars and oppressors — and enemies in their friends.

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Glenn Geist

Glenn Geist lives in South Florida and wastes most of his time boating, writing, complaining and talking on the radio
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7 years ago

I watch them, these Trumpers, and I am embarrassed for our nation.

Ron Martin
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7 years ago

So am I, and we all should be.

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