To begin today’s blog on a positive note, we today might take courage by noticing just how godawful some of our worst presidents (Buchanan, Andrew Johnson) have been–for the Republic did survive them all. Yet I continue to see plenty of red lights flashing these days, and Trump has nearly three years left in the White House.
One big question is, what will Trump do as he comes to feel more and more cornered? When our good buddy Adolf saw himself losing WWII, he decided to destroy Germany, and he very nearly succeeded. As it were, “Heh, heh, heh, that will teach these loser Germans to fail their Fuehrer.”(1)
(1) Fortunately, the mustachioed little man with the even smaller, even more fragile, psyche lacked nuclear weapons.
At any rate, the latest poll hot off the press by the American Research Group shows 34% presidential approval and 63% disapproval.
(2) Those breathtaking numbers will get worse as the prices of gas, oil, food, and medications soar because of the war in Iran. The betting markets already predict the Dems will take majorities in both the House and the Senate beginning next January. The weaker Trump appears as a lame duck, the greater the number of his incompetent minions who will leap off the sinking ship. As the poet laureate of my generation sang, “The times they are a-changin’.”
Let’s hope Marco Rubio and Susie Wiles will eventually screw up their courage to the sticking point and march into the Oval Office and tell the Stable Genius, “No, Sir, you absolutely may not destroy the world now. Don’t even think about it!” The survival of the human race conceivably might depend on the fortitude of two of the most spineless amoebae on the planet.
–Horatius