We may wish that he would long be gone, but he’s hard to erase. The damage he has done to our national psyche is enormous. We elected a common real estate broker with a limited belief in democracy to be the leader of our land, and nothing will ever be the same again. He has impacted our institutions of governance in a way that should never be forgotten. If we are lucky, or at least peripherally vigilant, we won\u2019t make the mistake of electing such a personage to be our President ever again.<\/p>\n
Already, I digress.<\/p>\n
He is not in this story at all, except for the long shadow that he has been able to cast over our previous concept of democracy, a notion that goes back to the Colonies in New England in the early 1600\u2019s. We\u2019ve had centuries of practice in democracy. We honed to, discussed it, fought over it, legislated it; the overwhelming majority of us based our lives on its tenets. We thought we were good. We came to love the hypothesis that we were all created equal, and we utterly believed that our vote, once we were all awarded it, counted. We learned that nobody was above the law.<\/p>\n
The property-owning huckster begged to differ.<\/p>\n
God knows what image of himself he fell in love with in front of his mirrorball; however he did it, he fell for a self-inflated ego the likes of which has rarely been seen across the land. He thought omnipotence, he thought all-powerful, he thought Ayatollah; he cosied up to Kim Jong Un. Things got out of hand. He ended up questioning the operation of democracy in multiple states, and pushed in Georgia for imaginary votes to materialize.<\/p>\n
This man has, as far as I can tell, never encountered humility.<\/p>\n
Confucious once said Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. <\/em>Without a solid foundation in life, where are you? Well, possibly in a Barbiland place called MAR-A-LAGO, about as far away from reality as you can get and still be in the United States.<\/p>\n Do we care?<\/p>\n Yes, and no. We don\u2019t want him back in the White House, so we have to constantly keep an eye out and an ear cocked for erratic and half-baked truths that might again threaten our foundations of self-government. Let him busy himself on his apparently multitudinous golf courses; we don\u2019t really have to give a second thought to his golf escapades unless, of course, he\u2019s hiding highly sensitive and classified documents on nuclear programs in his golf course bathrooms. Then, we might need to be concerned.<\/p>\n We elected Biden. We were ready to move on, but our loser-in-chief resident of Inflated Ego Tower in New York, doesn\u2019t want to let us go. He keeps dragging us, desperately, back, repeating his false claims and hurt feelings ad nauseum. His desire for headlines swamps us, even now, daily. Many of those headlines date back to his time in office, and many involve prosecutions and lawsuits that appear to be reproducing like rabbits. A date in 2024<\/a> has been set for a trial involving the man\u2019s fetish for hoarding official government documents at his residences; the Justice Department has brought 37 counts against him<\/a>\u00a0for his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House. It doesn\u2019t end there. New York is charging him with\u00a034 felony counts of falsifying business records<\/a>.\u00a0A jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll<\/a> and awarded her $5 million. This is only a partial list of accusations. Bubbling just under the surface is Georgia\u2019s 2020 election meddling case; the Grand Jury has already submitted their report there.<\/p>\n Perhaps most serious of all is the January 6 insurrection\u00a0case in Washington. Did the con man actually direct an assault on our Capitol? This past week, he received a letter of concern from Justice Department prosecutor, Jack Smith, informing him that he is a target in Smith\u2019s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The potential charges against our former loony-in-chief are obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the government, incitement of an insurrection and conspiracy to violate civil rights.<\/p>\n None of it looks good.<\/p>\n