Mr. Trump Goes to Congress

The biggest surprise of the State of the Union’s address was the President conducting himself appropriately without referencing his Electoral College win, gloating over how he won the popular vote minus the illegals, or denying any problematic connections to Russia. Either they loaded him up on anti-psychotics or General McMasters threatened to bitch slap him silly if he engaged in his normal self-aggrandizing verbiage.

If one really listened to his unusually circumscribed speech, it sounded like mellifluous rancor for the same old shell game, only without the ADD tweets. Making his hateful policies sound palpable is equivalent to spoon feeding us feces and telling us it is ice cream. No worries: sooner or later the meds they gave him will dissipate, likely launching him into his previous adolescent tirades. As they say in psychology, the best behavior of future behavior is past behavior.

I've seen this showman turned politician act twice before: once with Jesse Ventura, the other with the Terminator. Both were disasters and left their respective states in shambles. They ran their political campaigns as Trump did, capitalizing on voter apathy and promising populism as a remedy for the government's impotence. For awhile they garnered public praise for their manly displays of wrangling with seasoned politicians. But sooner or later their cocky Achilles heel exposed their macho character defects-usually involving sex, money, ineptitude or all of the above.This is when the astute politicians swooped in. Rarely are one term governors fondly remembered or respected. 

Now we have the same variable at play in the White House. No matter how euphonic Trump sounds, he remains an unstable business aristocrat with no ethics and no moral compass. His menacing ideology embraces annihilation of whatever disagrees with his rich white world-whether it's immigrants, scientific data, basic healthcare, or the press. When he told Nancy Pelosi there's only going to be one party left, this was not just a clever quip. He meant it. By his behavior alone, one can see how much Trump enjoys his power as a petulant dictator. 

Kudos to both John McCain and President Bush for criticizing Trump's despot-like behavior. When members of your own party recognize you are out of control, we must take their warnings seriously.  To get involved in the resistance, one organization doing incredible work is the indivisible movement. Check them out at:
 https://www.indivisibleguide.com/