The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:
Jerry Wilkerson
What happens to Americans if Trumpism fails? Anyone? Does anyone care to answer?
Ah, so you’re on to Trumpnomics, his herky-jerky style of policymaking. You’ve learned this at your peril. And you’re prepared as much as possible for a punch you know is coming to your face.
In Trump’s world, he makes reality out of staggering fiction. It’s the same old schtick with him. He lies and lies and then lies some more. So it was, so it is, and so it shall be. And Republicans applaud their deity. There will be no recipients of medals marked “courage” in this Republican Congress. Trump, the old con artist, bugles like a stallion about how great everything is. He may as well have claimed he invented rainbows. So now we see when a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace instead becomes a circus.
Trump has declared, “God saved me to make America great again.” Perhaps we should amend that today because he was chosen to make America expensive again while adding deprivation.
The guy is ignoble, a plebeian in character with a vulgar alley-cat nature, all while acting like an enraged rhinoceros at a cotillion ball. He demands obedience and obeisance as the core requirements of American diplomacy. Acceptance of his delusions, fantasies, treacheries, and immoral transactions are his divine mandates. Yet he has no grand economic vision, geopolitical strategy, or political logic. Today’s Trump-ster-fire shows not even a patina of business and financial maturity (remember all his bankruptcies and business flops). The pungent effluvium of Trump’s failure is ever so present.
Donald John Trump is a wicked and delusional man who is lost inside a spasm of grandiosity, megalomania, lies, and ignorance that are both the fuel and cause of his addled condition. He enjoys cruelty and the power that comes from being able to inflict it. Witness the nasty Oval Office planned assault and take-down of President Zelensky. How embarrassing was that for America? The battlefield of the 21st-century Cold War is Donald Trump’s ego.
Putin is the world’s crucible of evil. Trump’s most significant liability of his lifetime will be the horror of defending Putin. Trump has turned against our allies and friends and embraced a Russian murderer, thug, and tyrant. He has aligned himself with Putin’s vision of making the world a more dangerous place, and Russia is gloating with approval. The most senior officials of the American government now routinely parrot Kremlin propaganda while raging at the temerity and impertinence of Americans who dare question them about their moral duplicity and abandonment of the American way of life.
President Donald Trump won the White House again because of dissatisfaction with the economy under Biden. Specifically, the public’s frustration over a spike in inflation, which, even after it cooled, appeared to leave widespread, lingering resentment over the cost of everyday items, especially at the grocery store.
Waving away his campaign pledge to lower the cost of groceries, Trump has focused instead on maximal cruelty and political retribution dispersed with a wrecking ball. Article I of the Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the power to establish federal agencies and to appropriate money to run them. He is robbing the weak, the powerless, the poor. When you eviscerate the federal government, real people get hurt.
Is it unavoidable that we are headed for a deep recession? The economic numbers show we are on the precipice. As businesses try to navigate an uncertain economic environment with rising costs, hiring has atrophied, reducing consumer spending confidence and dealing a significant blow to economic growth. Will Trump’s base buy his inevitable lies that he’s not to blame for their financial disaster? It all comes down to whose ox is getting gored.
Conclusion: “What, me worry!” Trump’s new political jingle.
I would guess that the sun will come up tomorrow morning. Do not be afraid. Go with your heart and know that every citizen of this great nation has a role to play in the struggle coming hard and fast. We are a moral nation of good people and cannot and will not watch this country collapse.
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