A day or so after a young woman protesting the
Charlottesville, Virginia neo-Nazi/KKK rally was
rammed and killed by a car driven by a white
supremacist, Donald Trump sank to a new low. He
re-tweeted an altered editorial cartoon of a
"Trump Train" ramming CNN and then deleted it.
He then followed up by claiming there was some
kind of moral equivalence between the white
supremacists and the other protesters. For that
he received a well-deserved, almost universal
condemnation.
But where do we go from
here? Trump has adopted a strategy of deflection and rapid-fire outrages, giving
little time for us as Americans to really digest everything he is doing, or for it to
make an impact that matters. He moves quickly on to the next outrageous
statement or action in order to cleverly remove his past transgressions from
public consciousness. They are adding up though, and the adults in the room on
both sides of the aisle are either running out of patience with Trump or are
past that point. It doesn't appear there are many left in Trump's
Jonestown to drink the Kool-Aid he is dishing
out, but at this
point impeachment or resignation are in order.
As
for his heir-apparent, former Indiana Governor Mike Pence, I honestly can't tell
what he's thinking at this point. Does he honestly believe Trump is a man of
integrity who is being "framed" by the media? Does he view himself as the
translator for a sorely misunderstand POTUS or as a defense attorney going
through the motions for his client, the Commander-In-Chief? At any rate, he
should understand that Trump has demonstrated zero loyalty to his defenders and
gets a sick kick out of saying"you're fired."