TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS EXPLAINED, AT LAST

 Don't get me wrong here; Donald Trump is a very, very dangerous man. He is the head of a three-generation New York crime family, and somehow he was elected to the office of President of the United States. He is a fascist, and a wanna-be dictator. He has a base of millions of ardent supporters, and he has somehow kept congressional Republicans under his thumb. How has he done this? How can this be explained?

One easy answer is this: Donald Trump is a buffoon, and people love a buffoon. 

I'm not just calling names here. But seriously, gird your loins and watch some video clips from his campaign rallies (yes, the COVID-19 super-spreader rallies). There is The Donald, in his element, acting the buffoon to a crowd of thousands of MAGA hat-wearing, cheering buffoon-lovers. He does his stand-up comedy schtick, making funny faces, cracking one-liners (usually something mean about someone, and always lies), doing that weird gesture with his hands (palms facing out, jerking out and back at waist level). His fans eat it up; they laugh, they hoot, they shout "lock her up - lock her up" at the mention of any Democratic woman politician, they hold up their stupid signs like "Women for Trump" and "Make America Great Again, Again" and "Trump-Pence 2020" and other bullshirt. 

And they are all crowded together, and very, very few of them are wearing masks (except the ones behind him who are on-camera, and have been told to wear masks to give a false impression), and they are in violation of every rule about the pandemic, and Trump doesn't give a rats ass about that or them, and when he leaves there is a COVID surge left behind. 

Sometimes he has a warm-up comedy act, his robotic wife, Melania. She has some extremely funny one-liners about how Donald is protecting shildren, and has stopped the pandemic, and is fighting bullies, and other stuff that is oh so hilarious in its irony. 

If the Trump family was not such a dangerous cabal of fascist grifters, if we could back away and look at them as if we were observers from another galaxy, well, we would certainly be laughing out loud at their antics and their ironic humor (if we had mouths to laugh through). I'm thinking Charlie Chaplin as The Great Dictator. 

We will get rid of this dangerous buffoon soon enough. Then we need to figure out how to live with his buffoon supporters.* Ugh.

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* Yeah, I know, we need to talk to people, and heal the divide, and find common ground, and all that. But seriously...