Well, it's official! Pretty much everyone I know thinks I'm wrong. And I love it! Everyone believes that Trump really DOES want to be President. I don't. I still don't. I didn't before. I STILL still don't! So here it comes...are you ready...wait for it...(I'm screaming now) AHHHHHEEEEERRRRRRRRAAAAAHHHHRRRRRRRRHMMMMMAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
TRUMP DOESN'T WANT TO BE PRESIDENT!!! TRUMP DOESN'T WANT TO BE PRESIDENT!!! TRUMP DOESN'T WANT TO BE PRESIDENT!!!
To me (and clearly no one else) it is obvious. He is pushing every button, every boundary, every sane discussion, every fear, every paranoia, every bias, every outlet of hate, every entree into organized racism, every connection to misogyny, every access to base ignorance, and every contact to the primal anger in ALL of us, no matter how disconnected to reality.
I've expressed a few ideas about why he is doing this in previous blogs and I still believe that those ideas are sound. But...I have another...of course! The Donald will now write another book!
Yup, you heard me...he will write a book about what he did, what he's doing, and what he intends to do regarding his decision to play very dangerous and precarious games with America. And he'll make more money off of that book than he ever would have by being president AND he will get more attention, more publicity, and more commentary than any president in history.
Granted, I am most likely giving him this idea for which he will, naturally, take full credit expounding that he had planned it far far in advance and only did it to prove his point: that Americans are so easily frightened, so easily manipulated, and so easily coaxed into being scared, hate-filled, bigoted creatures. And, if you haven’t completely written me off, I will now explain how he will unfold this either brilliant or dastardly concept, depending upon your own level of cynicism.
His new book, likely titled something like “Trump’s Calling, (how I became the most powerful man in the world w/o lifting a finger)” or, his sequel, “The Art of The Manipulation.” It will catalog how he went on a proudly noble journey to reveal the black, fowl, appalling, disgusting, shameful underbelly of America's deep seeded racism, homophobia, misogyny, fear of people different from them, unease with their own situation, suspicion of anyone who doesn't share their narrow, biased values, and anxiety over their own uninformed, going-nowhere state of being.
There ya' have it! Pretty simple, pretty diabolical, and pretty frigging ingenious!
Now, before you think I'm insinuating that Trump is a genius, let me explain. He is far far from genius status for reasons that other people have explained better than I ever could, but ingenious in the way that this has all revealed itself.
I don't believe for a minute that Trump set out to do it in exactly the way it has unfolded. I think that Trump discovered, through his predictable publicity-hungry investment in running for President, that he hugely underestimated the contagious, fearful, and collective stupidity of the closet racist, the closet misogynist, the closet homophobe, the closet Islamophobe, the closet scaredy-cat, the closet progress-o-phobe (my term!), and the closet Neanderthal.
So stay tuned to his inevitable withdrawal from the race. Be it from a decline in poll numbers or a fabricated excuse (health issues, wife doesn’t want to be subjected to all this, people aren’t respecting him, the media aren’t respecting him, we don’t deserve him…), or any other completely contrived myth). It WILL be coming..guaranteed!
Set your DVD recorders!!!
