You’ve all seen the Facebook meme, I take it, the one about the pilot and the plane and how insane it is to wish the pilot to crash and how—the point, we’re told—we shouldn’t wish Donald Trump to fail because we’re just like those passengers on that plane?
You’ll need to come up with a better metaphor, for on this, his first full week in office, I want President Trump to fail.
Because …
If he fails to completely gut the Affordable Care Act, America wins.
If he fails to break down the wall of separation between religion and state, America wins.
If he fails to move our embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, America wins.
If he fails to muck tinker with the one-China policy, America wins.
If he fails to build a ridiculous wall between us and Mexico, America wins.
If he fails to break up NATO, America wins.
If he fails to introduce more guns in our streets and schools, America wins.
If he fails to corral the press in pens, only calling on his favorites, as Putin does, America wins.
If he fails to open up national parks to frackers, America wins.
If he fails to allow Canadian energy companies to run a pipeline under the kiddie pool out back, America wins.
If he fails to hand public education over to friends of his new education secretary, America wins.
If he fails in his efforts to allow government into our bedrooms and vaginas, America wins.
If he fails in his desire to give millionaires and billionaires more tax breaks, America wins.
If he fails in allowing global climate change deniers and intelligent design proponents to write textbooks for 3rd graders, America wins.
If he fails to defund Planned Parenthood, America wins.
If he fails to prevent a lesbian couple from getting a bundt cake to celebrate their honeymoon, Americans wins.
If he fails to appoint homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic justices to SCOTUS, America wins.
If he fails to win re-election in 2020, America wins.
So, yes, I want President Trump to fail, spectacularly, regularly, embarrassingly … completely.
If he fails, America wins. America survives.
We can always get a new pilot.