More rallies!!!

Whether it ends on Tuesday or continues for another four years, the Trump era will be spoken of as a time in the history of these United States like none other. His incredible, against-all-odds victory over Hillary Clinton four years ago shocked even himself, if reports are accurate. Suddenly, America had a President who, like a 16-year-old locker-room stud, had bragged about what he could do to and with women. He'd made a life in casinos and professional wrestling extravaganzas, starred in a TV show during the era of "reality television," which wasn't, and turned over millions of dollars in penalty for a university that was textbook sham.

In real estate, he established a reputation as a crook. His modus opereindi was to take disgruntled workers to court, where he'd bleed them so dry they'd throw in the towel. He was not well-liked in New York, his hometown; but he made himself a tabloid hero whose sex life seemed a game. No candidate for President was ever as poorly trained. He was--and he remains--a textbook narcissist whose passion for feeding his ego knows no bounds.

He courted evangelical Christians--of all people!--who already had a penchant for believing that everyone hates them, or at least everyone in political power. Evangelicals were--and are--unlikely Trump-ettes, but they saw in him a man who would deliver them from baby-killers. He promised he would, and did, by God: when the opportunities arose to replace three Supreme Court judges--three in three years!--he found established, respected judges whose worldview included significant intellectual resistance to Roe v. Wade. 

Donald Trump was never a religious man; whether or not he is today is arguable. The evangelicals he has to have to win again claim him to be "a baby Christian." Or maybe they're just happy that he begins his rallies with prayer. That'll do it. Once upon a time, in the middle of social unrest right outside his own front door, he cleared the neighborhood with tear gas in order to march across the street and hold a Bible high above his head in a photo op so crass even his followers winced.

He rode to political prominence on racism--no political figure on the road to the 2016 election was as brazen as he was in advancing the notion that Barack Hussein Obama was born abroad and thus was not eligible to hold the office of President. He touted "birtherism" until he didn't need to, and never apologized when it was over. 

But then he never apologized for anything he'd ever done, and told anyone who would listen that that's the way he wanted to live; he never asked forgiveness, he said, because he'd never needed to. No single statement he'd ever uttered could have been more contrary to the truth all those evangelicals would claim to preach. He didn't stand in need of a Savior. Put it this way: he as much as claimed he was without sin. Still, they loved him.

With just a few days to go in the runup to the 2020 election, he is doing more of the same, cramming his schedule with fan club rallies that attract thousands of worshippers, at a point in time when his own White House health experts warn people by all means to avoid exactly the kinds of crowds he creates, the vast majority of them standing up, jammed together, unmasked. 

He puts thousands, even millions of his admirers at horrendous physical risk, in the midst of the fog created by a pandemic the world hasn't seen for a century, a pandemic that has already killed over one million victims out of 44 million cases worldwide. In Wisconsin yesterday, he spoke to a SRO crowd while the state set a record for new cases of the virus. At this moment, 227, 697 Americans have already died. More by the time you're reading this.

He doesn't care. His schedule is full of more rallies, full right up to Tuesday. 

No President in the history of the democracy has ever dealt out the bullshit like he has and continues to do. Here's a tweet from 11 hours ago:

If you vote for Biden, your kids will not be in school, there will be no graduations, no weddings, no Thanksgiving, no Christmas, and no Fourth of July!

He doesn't care. He's superman--without a conscience.

Vote him out.