Like most Americans, when Donald Trump threw his comb-over into the race I guffawed. Running for office seems to be his modus operandi for assuring himself that he isn’t irrelevant.
And he’s not.
Donald Trump should be acknowledged as the true progressive that he is. Given his stance on Mexicans, immigration and today’s announcement that if he were elected he would shut down the government in order to cut all funding to Planned Parenthood he is a true apocatastasis. In other words he is emblematic of backward progress. And despite the Senate and House which could stop him I admit that to being a cynic. I believe that with promises of a little extra pocket change to the right people, he could get the additional votes needed to pass almost anything.
Rather than representing the people of America or the dictates of the Founding Fathers, I see Trump as falling in line with the notion that“[i]t is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.” That's what Joseph Goebbels said.
Let it be known that, with the exception of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, I believe the Democrats are almost as bad as the Republicans and, until we remove lobbyists, the idea of a government “of the people, by the people and for the people” is as much a parody as Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.”
Seeing himself as sole arbiter of America’s problems, Trump will bring us to a new battlefield, a new Civil War. Having a messianic complex yet refusing to participate in the Republican debates he is clearly acknowledging that although he is all too ready to stomp on anyone who disagrees with him, he lacks the balls to stand-up to his peers. Donald Trump is a bully, plain and simple.
As an autocrat whose mantra is “you’re fired,” Trump supporters who agree with one or two of his positions should remember Martin Niemoller’s famous quote:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Although many of the men we’ve elected into office were nothing more than a joke, the office of Presidency is not and a Carnival Barker should not be considered worthy of the position.