Fresh off a humiliating election defeat, when many of the candidates he was enthusiastically and very actively supporting losing badly, and with many in the country viewing these election results as largely a repudiation of him, and with many in his own party urging him to delay his announcement of his run for the White House - for a fourth straight time, not just a third straight (since he ran also in 2012, but failed miserably then) - Trump has announced that he is running for the White House.
Yes, again.
This time, there appears to be some stiffer resistance to Trump than there has been in the past. This time, some Republicans really are not wild about the idea of yet another Trump run.
Still, when has what is good for the Republican party - let alone what is good for the country - prevented Trump from pursuing his own selfish ambitions?
Right now, the Republican party - once the party that seemed unified and in lock and step - seems fractured, once again. Also once again, it is Trump who is proving to be the point of polarization, as he pretty much is everywhere he goes and with everything that he does these days. His referring to Rick De Santis as "Rick De Sanctimonious is yet further proof that Trump himself is as immature an intolerant of dissent within Republican ranks as he ever was.
As is pointed out in this video, for some reason, Trump came out to a song from ‘Les Misérables,' which was annoying. As Seth Meyers rightly points out, the lyrics are probably lost on a lifelong elitist like Trump, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. It still puzzles me how anyone, let alone working class people, feel that this man understands them and relates to their everyday struggles. He does not even pretend to not live a life of opulence and grandeur. When you are elected to the Oval Office, and then seem to suggest that you will only reluctantly move into the White House, because you feel it's almost slumming it, you know you are not dealing with a guy who can relate to...well, pretty much anyone else.
But Trump has always been a master of the art of scams and conning people. And his greatest such work - his absolute masterpiece, if you will - was in convincing just enough Americans that he championed their cause, that he cared and did and would fight for them. It hardly takes a solid intellect or keen skills of observation to see through this frankly pathetically needy and small man, and to see him for what he is. Yet, tens of millions of Americans simply refuse to even do that much, to look at what certainly by now has to be obvious to anyone with a measure of intelligence and objectivity.
Sorry, maybe that sounds harsh or judgmental. So be it. I mean, seriously, this guy is an absolute clown show. If people still by now do not recognize that, or refuse to acknowledge it, then there is perhaps even less hope than I originally believed.
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