How many of you didn’t feel some pleasure when you when you learned that Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of one of the evil spawn of Donald Trump, tested positive for Covid-19”? How many of you didn’t have some fantasies about who could catch it from her?
I sure hope none of you feel guilty for wishing the worst on the couple and hoping they transmit the virus to the man in the Oval Office who is doing everything he possibly can to promote the spread of the disease.
While I don’t relish the thought that innocent children may catch Covid-19 from any of these people or that they will suffer because their parents are sick or even die, thoughts like “you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs” come to mind.
These are dark thoughts. I hate the fact that we have a president that has me, and all of my friends, thinking these things. I never had such thoughts about Reagan, Nixon or either president Bush.
If you have similar thoughts I want you to understand that they are normal. They don’t make you a bad person.
Self-disclosure
I want Covid-19 to run rampant through the White House laying low more and more people surrounding Trump but sparing him long enough for him to experience a new emotion, an emotion rarely if ever experienced by malignant narcissists. It is an emotion beyond anxiety. It is fear.
Then I want him to test positive and go through a few days symptom free and be lulled into smug complacency thinking that his imperial (and corpulent) corpus fought off the virus.
Then I want it to hit him like ________________ (chose your metaphor for very hard or even grisly).
I want him to be so sick that Pence has to take over under the 25th.
Then I want Pence to get so sick that Nancy Pelosi has to take over under the 25th.
What she did with the vast power she had would depend on how long it appeared she'd be in this position. If she acted precipitously it would backfire if Trump survived. I wouldn’t want even her to fire anyone. Instead I would bring on a chief of staff and a few advisors to make sure they didn’t do anything else to undermine democracy and justice.
Even if Trump and Pence died making her the president she would still have to be very judicious in not doing anything to open the door for a moderate Republican like Mitt Romney to become the next president.
I think that if Trump died, or for whatever reason didn’t run, Pence would but he’d face a tough convention challenge from the likes of Mitt Romney.
I think most of the anti-Trump conservatives now supporting Biden would breathe a sigh of relief and whole-heartedly endorse a moderate Republican.
Be careful what you wish for. I think it is best that Trump get Covid-19, have a close brush with death, prove how cravenly and egregiously he lied, cause hundreds of thousands of his MAGA base to contract Covid-19 or know people who did, and as a consequence suffer biggest landslide loss in history.