Say what you will about the man (and there is PLENTY to say) but Donald Trump is persistent in a way Elizabeth Warren will never be. After the feminist movement adopted the "Nevertheless, She Persisted" tagline as their rallying cry du jour, over Warren being "honey... hushed" in the Senate back in 2017, the phrase seems more appropriate when applied to Trump. The man is a lightning rod. Love him or hate him... he stays on the world stage; drawing and channeling the electric-like current of public discourse to and through him like a Tesla coil.
There are many who wish he would be sent to prison or be shamed into retreating into obscurity or, at the very least, quietly fading away. Not happening. The man persists. Those who want him pilloried want it with such vehemence that it is a kind of mania. The Never-Trumpers, in their minds, see him as the embodiment of evil. Every crime, every transgression against humanity and morality, every slimy, creepy, pervy scumminess imaginable is attributed to the man. He is lambasted as the maleficent mastermind of any number of nefarious schemes, plots, and conspiracies yet, in the same breath, he's also labeled a brainless dunce. Regardless, they can't get shut of him.
You can't silence him. You can take his Twitter account down, block him on Facebook and attach "False Information" labels to his every utterance but his words still circulate unabated. And those words resonate with many, across multiple demographics. To those frustrated, fed-up, ignored, strained-to-the-point-of-breaking folks who are asked, "Why do you support Trump?" the answer is often, "Because FUCK YOU... That's why." They have finally done what they have been threatening to do for years: They've turned away from cookie-cutter elected officials, drawn from the homogenous do-nothing political class, and elected an outsider. The ULTIMATE political outsider, in fact. He may be coopted by the New Jersey mob, for some shady New York real estate deals but he owes nothing to the Washington insiders, the inside-the-beltway power brokers. They have nothing with which they can threaten him. And so, they scramble to find something... ANYTHING... that can be used as leverage to get him to put the cork back in the swamp's drain. Stalking his every post, hounding his past taxes. Dragging out claim after claim of misogyny and womanizing. He just grins and keeps on going.
The man is a Robin Hood. A member of the 1% aristocracy who, instead of taking riches from the wealthy, steals publicity and media attention from the erudite enlightened. He photobombs them and draws away the camera lenses. He doesn't FEEL your pain as Bill Clinton did. Trump is too well off to ever be in the kind of dire straits we peons struggle through. But he recognizes it, understands it, and takes steps to deal with it. Not word-spew. Not lip-service. Not bloviating about promised relief programs designed to stoke outrage against capitalism or advocacy for socialism... not to garner votes. Instead, he lowers taxes. He lowers fuel prices. He lowers unemployment. He opens markets and strips away onerous overregulation. all while telling the rest of the stuck-up world to back the fuck off or ante-up. He runs the United States like a business. A task to which he is supremely suited.
And boy... do they come after him. His detractors attack relentlessly, yet ineffectually. They can't get anything to stick. Either, because he is too slick and crafty or because there is nothing substantive to the charge being leveled at him (or at least nothing that can be proven). Or because they don't care. They don't care that he's a womanizer, a tax dodger, an opportunitic self-agrandizing ham. In any case, his supporters stand behind him. They wish they could pull the kind of 3-Card Monty game on the IRS that Trump does. They see through the fake Russian dossier and the Jan 6th teeth-gnashing histrionics. It makes his supporters giggle with glee. They see Trump as he is. As he's always claimed to be. A businessman. They all know not to trust him around their wives. They know he'll skim a bit off of every deal he makes. He'll make sure he is always positioned to have the advantage. Fine. That's the kind of boss they want. They don't need a trusted friend. They don't need a sympathetic ear. They don't even necessarily want to like him... or want him to like them. That's not what they look for in a boss. They look for a boss to keep the company in the black, making a profit and gaining market share against the competition, That way they can keep their job. Get a pay raise. Afford a nice place to live and a good medical plan. All while putting something away for the future. His supporters felt like his "America First"... his "Make America Great Again" approach was keeping this company that is America on a healthy fiscal footing.
Especially compared to the trough-feeding, platitude-spewing, piss-on-your-leg-and-tell-you-it's-warm-summer-rain, ivory tower-dwelling politicians who have been running the show from almost the very beginning of this republic. The ones that all of us, regardless of political party, have been bitching about endlessly. Americans keep saying they need a new kind of person to step into the arena and make real change. Trump did that. His "Drain the Swamp" approach was lauded by his supporters and cheered on lustily. The swamp dwellers, however... began to thrash. As the sewage began to spiral down the drain... as the shady deals in the murky depths were brought up toward the disinfecting sunlight, panic set in. The corrupt began a concerted effort to get him out of the pool. To plug the drain and keep their dirty deals secret.
They have tried everything. His business dealing and taxes are under audit scrutiny. Nothing actionable. Women come forward with claims of sexual harassment and assault. No proof. Nothing actionable. He is a Russian asset. Dossier fake. Election interference is unfounded. Nothing actionable. Ukrainian phone call impropriety. Baseless. Nothing actionable. Impeached in the Democrat-controlled House. Not convicted in the, calmer and more reasoned Senate because... nothing actionable. Lawsuit after lawsuit are brought before courts only to be dismissed for lack of evidence. DANG that pesky proof.
You see, in the kangaroo court of Congress, you don't have to have proof of wrongdoing. The severity of the claim is often all that is needed to convict. Make a claim or level a charge that is outrageous... egregious enough and you can be impeached. Congress does not have to act in any legally constrained way (as a court must). Every time Trump's haters take a matter before a grand jury or a judge, it is tossed for lack of evidence. Screaming about how mean he is and how terrible the charges are, makes no difference. The scales of justice measure only evidence... proof.
As to whether Trump is a scumbag? I think he is. I think he is an amoral, self-promoter. A womanizer. A maker of many shady deals. He is a fat-cat capitalist of the highest order.
So what?
So is every other politician in Washington. He is no worse than ANY of them. The only difference is that Trump owns it. He did a good job managing the country like a business, in spite of his skeeziness. And for that... many gave him a pass on his personal failings. Is Biden any better? Absolutely not!
Joe is just lying to us like a boyfriend promising he won't cum in his girlfriend's mouth, knowing all the while that he will. Knowing also that he's going to empty her checking account, max her credit cards, bang her friends and wreck her car. And America is like that girlfriend that knows it too. But she keeps sucking away despite the inevitable outcome, blindly hopeful that this one will be different. He says he cares about us and is here to help us and, all the while, he's doing all the same "Trumpy" things as the big mean orange man. Worse things even. Decades of corruption and embezzlement mark Biden's passage through politics. Plus he's now a mumbling, senile, doddering fool. Nothing more than a puppet for some shadowy liberal controllers behind the curtains. But he puts on his cool shades, eats an ice cream cone, sniffs a teenage girl, or uncomfortably gropes a woman. Then he rambles on about something incoherent... trailing off as he loses his train of thought; all while his supporters shrug it off as "old Uncle Joe... That's just the way he is." as they scramble to explain what he really meant and excuse his creepiness as being "overly affectionate."
And, on top of all that... He's not even doing a good job of steering the ship of state. He's lashed to the tiller as his minions are below deck, hacking away at the hull while shouting up to him to assure those of us on deck that "All is well!"
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