American carnage II

Some are saying President Trump won, and he wasn't even there. 

Last night, six primary candidates stood in front of the nation and put on the kind of show Trump himself used to assemble when he ran Wrestlemania. To say the bunch turned on the new guy, Mayor Bloomburg, pussyfoots with the truth. They did more than bloody him; they left him--or tried to--at the side of the road to the nomination.

But then, in Mike Bloomberg, Bernie and Elizabeth have a flesh-and-blood enemy no graphic artist could create for them. He's a real live billionaire, one of the very power-brokers they've both been hanging up as a shooting-range target for years. The original sin in our society is our billionaires, or so they've said. Last night, there one stood, just to their right, on stage in Vegas. Punch-a-rama. How perfectly American. 

Not that Bloomberg didn't deserve body blows--and now and then a vicious left cross. It's altogether possible that, come November, our choice will be two Big Apple misogynists, two NY billionaires with cash flowing from their every orifice. Together, they could buy whole sections of the nation, two of the mega-rich, each with a sordid history of buying affection on one hand and silence on the other, two of a kind, just about the lowest hand in poker. 

Imagine a November when people will argue that their fat cat has more cash than yours. Those two oligarchs are cut from the same cloth. Bloomberg couldn't stanch the bleeding when Elizabeth Warren asked him, point blank, to release the female employees he paid off from the silence he swore them to. He won't because he can't.

Meanwhile, in an attempt to grab headlines to feed his habit, President Orange rode into Arizona aboard Air Force 1 to ignite praise and worship from his faithful with another two-hour tirade against sin and evil, which is to say the Dems, who are Stalinists and hate America. Thousands, cultishly, believe him.

So who will it be? Which of the Dems will walk into the lion's den with the Orange tiger? Who's going to stand up against a man who will say and do anything, a man whose lies are both legion and legendary? Will it be little Mike? or Pocahantas? or Crazy Bernie? or the totally evil Biden, whose been pummeled for years already, a man who should be locked up in the cell next to Hillary. 

Or will it just come down to "hey, our guy's richer than your guy"?

What an ever-lovin' mess.

I've always loved that old Ben Franklin line about a republic: when asked what the constitutional convention had created, Franklin said, "A republic, if you can keep it." I've never in my life heard it repeated as often as I have in the last year or so. People are scared.

And they should be.

President Trump's "American Carnage" inaugural speech was the darkest national survey on record, an assessment of state of the union that made this country appear as war-ravaged as the Ardennes Forest after the Bulge. You don't have to look far for nay-sayers these days; they come in full-dress uniforms, both red and blue. 

Really, how are we going to get through this? 

God only knows.