by Hal Brown, MSW
Dana Milbank’s column in The Washington Post is worth reading in its entirety if you have a subscription. The original title was changed from when I began this diary (it is still in the address bar) to “This may sound like Trump’s wackiest conspiracy theory. But it’s actually true.” Who knows why the powers behind the tiles decide to change them? I know from my Daily Kos stories that once you publish online using one you can't change how it appears in a URL in the address bar.
Since most of you don’t subscribe to The Washington Post here are the karmically comic portions:
It is a case of being hoisted by his own petard.
President Trump has convinced his own supporters of the false conspiracy theory that mail-in ballots are subject to rampant fraud — so much so that Republicans are, evidently, refusing to vote by mail.
The Post’s Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey report that Democratic voters have embraced mail ballots in far greater numbers than Republicans in primaries this year — alarming Republican strategists who say it could undercut their candidates, including Trump, particularly in states such as Florida and Arizona. In Michigan, Trump supporters actually burned absentee-ballot applications.
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Milbank’s enumeration of paranoid conspiracies embraced by Trump and his supporters could be used as examples in an abnormal psychology course lecture on paranoia and delusional disorders.
- Vince Foster
- Troopergate
- Black helicopters
- Benghazi!
- Hillary Clinton’s brain damage
- Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood
- Pizzagate.
Now we see growing ruin caused by so much lunacy coming from the highest office in the land. The GOP is becoming a Garish Opera of Paranoia. It was all fun and games in 2015 and 2016, when three-fifths of his supporters (according to one Democratic poll) embraced his claim that Obama wasn’t born in the United States. But now he’s convincing his supporters not to mail in their ballots and not to protect themselves against the virus.
A president disenfranchising his own supporters and jeopardizing their lives sounds like the wackiest conspiracy theory of all. But this one is true.
Yes indeed, Dana, Trump disenfranchising his own supporters and jeopardizing their lives would be the wackiest conspiracy theory of all except that this is exactly what he is doing.
In view of Trump’s cheating ways, novelist Kelley York’s quote is appropriate to end with:
Karma is a cruel mistress