President Trump said of Spain that it needs to build a wall across the Sahara Desert (ostensibly, to keep black folks out of Europe.) Talk about anachronism! Trump belongs in the age of the Ming Dynasty.
To his credit, Trump understands this: People vote their self-interests. Nothing so interests Americans as the American Dream. Trump believes that Americans believe that the more Americans there are – especially newly-formed, i.e. foreign-born Americans – the more diluted that “dream” becomes. He trusts that not only white Americans but black Americans – even Hispanic-Americans – can sense their tenuous grip on the “dream” slipping with each soul that slips across our border. Trump banks on Americans’ greeds and vanities – that in the privacy of the voting booth his boorish assaults upon their feigned sensibilities will pale next to the thought of him straddling the line, resolutely guarding against the dilution of their dream. He could win in 2020 on that, alone.
Trump lurches toward “unscrupulous individualism.” Though probably not a student of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Trump personifies Emerson’s “power first” dynamic, who adds, “In politics and trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.”
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April Ryan, news correspondent, and CNN contributor called former Trump advisor, Omarosa, “Evil.” Omarosa is not evil. She is greedy. Greed is a common human response. Evil is superhuman.
Ryan added: “First, she (Omarosa) loved Trump, then she bashes him. She has no credibility.” Four other people appearing on the same CNN panel with Ryan nodded their heads in agreement, as though none of them had ever smiled, lied, and pretended to like someone they did not like in order to keep their fancy jobs or get better ones.
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I once thought, “Rap ain’t music, it is just bad poetry with a beat.” I still think that.
