In 1927 author Sinclair Lewis, proved himself a soothsayer, with his bestselling novel Elmer Gantry. Donald Trump has adopted the mythical persona and taken it to new depths. Donald has made attempts to quote the Corinthians the “two” of them. Speaking of the Corinthians there is a passage in (1 Corinthians 13:11) “When I was a child I understood as a child and spake as a child. When I became a man I put away childish things,” Apparently Mr. Trump only believes in the first sentence because he has made no attempt to put away childish things.
We have moved from the age of growth and optimism to relying on division, loathing and conspiracy to win an election. I am not going to make any pretense of false equivalency to make the point. This mess of an election process falls squarely on the shoulders of the Republican Party. The have nominated and allowed a man who makes fun of their heroes (John McCain) called their party boss a “disgrace” (Reince Priebus) and disparaged every thinking Republican from New York to California. Yet in some Kabuki dance of absurdity they endorse him but don’t support him, or it is it support…. ahhhh who knows. I do know what has replaced the TEA Party and its racist agenda is now Trumpism and its bigotry.
When people in droves showed up less than nine months into President Obama’s ascendency into office, carrying racist signs, shouting slur laden epithets and vowing to “take our country back” the constant refrain from the right was, this is just a vocal group of concerned citizens expressing real anger. The “TEAtotalers” proceeded to take control of the House of Representatives and bludgeoned fair minded Republicans into submission. The knee-jerk response to anything out of the executive branch has been stunning. The prevailing joke is, “if President Obama found a cure for cancer the Republicans would blame him for ruining the pharmaceutical industry.”
Now we have a group of misogynist, headed by the former head of the Right Winged conspiracy publication, Breibart News heading the Republican campaign for one of the most important elections in our glorious history. The comfort that racist and misogynist who feel supported by Breitbart executive Steve Bannon, is not hard to find just spend a second on their comment board. Just today in response to a Rep. Maxine Waters’ article someone calling themselves, ‘bluiddevil,’ wrote,” Maxine Waters, a female racist whose only purpose in D.C. has been to get freebies for her lazy non-productive un-patriotic ghetto district.”
These same types of sentiments are now routinely a part of Trump gatherings. Men, women and unfortunately children, wearing ‘hang the bitch and Huck Fillary’ t-shirts, adorn themselves in this ignorant, oafish regalia as if they are attending some sort of religious indoctrination. Those of us who crave respectability are being shortchanged. Mr. Trump seems to revel in this hatred with his eyes lighting up at the fervor and responses he gets to his rhetoric, like a child who has not, “put away childish things.”
Vote 2016!