Unstable Genius

Any reasonable person who has seen the deteriorating deliveries of Donald Trump would have to dub him, at a minimum, unstable.  Unstable is dangerous, but not as dangerous as that same deficient stability tethered to a man who has exhibited frightening genius in the arena of inciting and manipulating the perpetually aggrieved among us.

Since 2015, the blustering ringmaster has deftly tapped into the “what about me?” group who blame their current failures on others—-especially immigrants.  He not-so-quietly stitched together a previously scattershot coalition of people unhappy with their circumstances, people distrustful of government, and people seeking to impose their religious beliefs on others despite the obvious hypocrisy of the messenger.  
 

He has gotten nearly half of America to ideologically abandon the notion that the United States is a beacon of democracy in the world, having his cloying followers believe that we are better off coddling and spooning with the likes of Putin, Xi, and Kim Jung Un.

He is a man who loses barely a single supporter after dozens of former staff or administration members have given sobering predictions of what another Trump presidency would look like—-after all, he was wise to grease his followers with stories of how so many of his former employees were disgruntled and out to hurt him.

The bottom line is that someone so successfully manipulative is bad enough…those same skills in a man who is so fragile emotionally is a veritable powder keg.  We can’t go there.