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In almost nine decades of experience, we have encountered no greater emotionally insatiable need to achieve universal recognition as a “winner” than in the case of the ostensibly formidable and resolute persona of Donald Trump. This writing’s intention is to articulate our conception of the psychodynamics of our singular Chief Executive, albeit not to approve of it in any moral or professional degree. In the interest of candor, we affirmatively state that the observations and conclusions articulated in this writing are founded on our empirical observation of his actions and public statements, and not didactic principles, concerning which we, admittedly, do not have the academic credentials. Nevertheless, we are confident in our ability to accurately perceive the ostensible indications of his contextual condition.

In earlier writings, we have referred to the dynamics of Trump’s n eedy persona by the utilization of the descriptive analogy of the needy child who painfully kick his dozing mother in the shins to win her exclusive attention, fully aware of the predictable retributive result, but with personal neediness, overriding all considerations; as etiologically descriptive of Donald J. Trump’s neurotic lifestyle; by now, he has made us supremely confident in our earlier precient prognostigations.

There is no more rational or motivational conclusion to be reached concerning his neurotically unpredictable and analytically impenetrable behavior; Trump asserts no political, economic, or other philosophical leanings; and his erratic inconsistency is therefore attributable to an emotionally driven and irrational etiology. The mystery is easily solved by his frequently stated aspiration to be universally seen as a “winner.” It requires little esoteric analysis to conclude that such clinical egocentrism is not compatible with the multitude of implicitly selfless, fiduciary responsibilities of the Chief of State of our Democratic Republic.

Such neurotically insatiable need for universal approval and acknowledgement of competent celebrity constitutes an empirically irresponsible impairment to the rational direction of a complex, multifaceted Republican Democracy; an assertion demonstratively proven by Trump’s dystopic and non-traditional Presidency. The entire swamp-like compendium of Trump-MAGA unconstitutional, immoral, and bizarre travesties is well known and delineated in past writings, and the mainstream American citizen finds himself understandably challenged in his fervent desire for the restoration of our traditional Nation. The neurotically needy child, residing in Trump’s persona, has been clinically successful in attracting his neurotically needed attention; there is not an hour in the day that his insatiable, toxic miscreance is not broadcast to the public.

We are hopeful of a resounding defeat of this dystopic President and the restoration of the traditional American way of life (including its continuing progress to a better Democracy), by the removal of this insatiable, megalomanical, and pyrrhic neurotic.

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Caution, dear reader, brace yourself; in a few days, the perennial tsunami, appearing every February 14, will predictably reassert itself, in all its traditional force. The sole fans of such feared flooding are the usual suspects: the greeting card companies, the chocolate manufacturers, the florists, the retail jewelry businesses, the pajama industry, and the novelty sales folk. The expected high tide of the Valentine’s Day inundation, judging by previous experience, will submerge all land masses, human population and baffle all reason. Among other phenomena, the advertising industry will publish a stage 4 hurricane of notices, featuring photo-shopped, seemingly amorous couples, in intimate proximity to their highlighted sales merchandise.

Since (mercifully) this holiday has only a short half-life, one day, the need for effective sales propaganda becomes urgent. Unaccountably huge profits are earned by companies that, presumptuously, maintain that there is a realistic (and commercial) need to supplement the interaction of couples who love one another, with their manufactured paraphernalia. Greeting card companies are especially guilty of this self-serving assumption and engage” distinguished poets” to create trite doggerel, consisting of inane expressions of love and fidelity, for the thousands of presumably, aphasic, anonymous consumers.

The most objectionable of the various Valentine’s Day symbols is the trite, red Valentine “heart,” an old-fashioned, retro configuration, broadcast without relief on all holiday products, greeting cards, gift wrapping paper, stuffed toys, pillows, and candy boxes. This stale symbol is glaringly imprinted on all items for sale on Valentine’s Day, as well as by some Manchurian Candidate-type propaganda, on the consumers’ minds.

Various research people [who presumably have no more pressing fields of inquiry for the employment of their Ph.D. acumen] have reported that the classic red symbol is derived from an early, incorrect understanding by [no less than] philosophers such as Galen and Aristotle, who believed that the heart contained only three chambers. [It may be noted that Dr. Galen and Mr. Aristotle were, innovatively, accurate on many other subjects]

The Valentine depiction of the human heart maintains the very same proportionate degree of accuracy as a wood duck, in appearance, bears to a moose. Nevertheless, it has, over the ages, been foisted upon and willingly accepted by the consuming public.

In truth, the human heart is shaped like a pear and is the approximate size of a man’s fist. This life-or-death chest muscle is taxed with the existential job of circulating blood and oxygen throughout the body. It has no time, or noticeable inclination, for holiday Hallmark sales propaganda, as the purported source of love, courage, strength or kindness. The statement, “He has a good heart” should be reserved, for a positive determination by a cardiologist, and not a comment on such traits as a person’s, love, generosity, or empathy. We are only concerned with cardiologists and not “cardeologists.” How would you value a positive comment regarding personal generosity, such as, “He has good kidneys.”

It is certainly inarguable that all human thought and emotion are exclusively brain functions and not the traditionally romanticized heart muscle. Admittedly, however, it would be impractical to artistically create a brain-shaped cartoon figure to symbolize the holiday.

The senseless Valentine’s “heart” is best replaced by a preferable love symbol, the unique and marvelous tulip bulb. Certainly, the outline of the traditional bulb is simple to artistically replicate. More importantly, the bulb has eternally been a symbol of future growth and predictable beauty. Relative to the modern conception of true and healthy love, the tulip bulb is seen as independent and self-sustaining, having within its inner self a sufficient systemic source of future nourishment as well as the natural ability and inclination for growth and the achievement of its innate potential.

The tulip bulb, in the Middle Ages, was thought to be magical and priceless. There are historical records of its sale for the modern equivalent of several thousand dollars. If you should offer one to him/her and it is refused, we earnestly suggest that you look elsewhere.

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Why should it be necessary to dedicate a one-day holiday in recognition and expression of love, and, further, to do so by trite gifts of holiday nonsense? Love, where it is genuine, is experienced regularly and expressed in tender interaction and caring, personal acts. This one-day holiday is sadly comparable to gifts of free turkey dinners on Thanksgiving to the needy. Hunger exists year-round, and the poor and unfortunate need more than a gratuitous symbol.

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Last week, the Advisory Committee of the Department of Disease Control and Prevention ( under the dystopian tutelage of JFK, Jr.) said that all vaccinations, including those for measles and polio, should be made optional; that requiring mandatory shots for school entry is a “species of authoritarianism.”

Such a specious declaration, to our perception, has the analogous verisimilitude of averments that the Georgia Ku Klux Klan is hosting a pie sale to raise money for Black History Month or that John Dillinger is a full professor in “Money and Banking Theory” at Wharton. Such hogwash, emanating from the autocratic Trump Administration, reveals the empirical level of dystopia, as also would a declaration that “Freddy” Krueger, from the fictional horror movie “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” has recently been seen, earnestly absorbed in crocheting a flowered pot holder for his grandmother.

It is an empirical revelation of cognitive dissonance for a member of the Trump Administration to oppose a matter of any description because its requirement is “authoritarian” and ipso facto, objectionable. Traffic laws, criminal statutes, and contract law have their respective mandates, yet exist at the will and for the empirical benefit of organic society. It would appear that the perverse declaration of “authoritarianism” regarding the societally salubrious policy of mandatory vaccination for entrance to public school is a subjective misuse of the word; analogous to the ignorant, ubiquitously used, “socialism,” by the misinformed right-wing, relative to programs of capitalistic benevolence, viz., social security, health insurance assistance, and the ike.

It has been our lifelong credo that only feckless governmental interference with the delineated constitutional rights of American citizens is “authoritarian” and pernicious, not every morally and societally necessary stricture. The MAGA misuse of specifically intended, contextual words is indicative of their ubiquitous misunderstanding, not only of the American lexicon but generally, of the inarguable virtues of living in a Democratic Republic.

On the vitally important subject of vaccination against disease, we cannot restrain our emotionally responsible feeling that parents who do not have their children fully vaccinated against disease are ipso facto guilty of child abuse.

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[Dream Sequence]: Donald J. Trump and his Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephan Miller, are ernestly engaged in a didactic discussion of the classic behavioral admonition contained in Emanuel Kant’s esoteric ” Prolegomena To Any Metaphysics,” when the Press Secretary, Karolyn Leavitt, throws open the gilded doors to the Oval Office, hysterically proclaiming that the President’s Executive Order, directing major physionomic alteration to New York’s Statue of Liberty and a relevant official change of name to ” The Winner, Donald Trump” was turned down by governmental authoritires for divers reasons, not the least of which is the predictable outcry from feminist groups as well as the influential N.Y.C Tourist Souvenir Association.

In the dynamics of the contextual dream, the sleeper, Donald Trump, wisely avoiding the highly predictable negative publicity from relevant historical societies, tourist companies, immigrant organizations, as well as the cheap souvenir sales companies,, he rejects the retributive advice of his outraged Cabinet to expunge the name and verses of Emma Lazarus from the edifice and, as further retribution, expulsion of her name from the illustrious list of famous American poets. In the dream, the outraged Chief Executive expostulates, angrily, that he would, however, retributively ban all depictions of New York’s East River from Federal Buildings. The latter restriction had fortuitously appeared to him, the moment he awoke from one of his sundry, irresistible afternoon naps.

Additional empirical, non-soporific misfortunes of the horrific day, consisting of a recent scientific study demonstrating that orange hair dye is irretrievably toxic and unhealthy to human cognition, the discovery of greasy three red ties, irretrievably lost to greasy ketchup stains from the morning’s regular ingestion of McDonald hamburgers, and two broken nails suffered by Melania, aggravated the bleak advice that the superjet graciously given to him by Qatar. was an irreparable “lemon” whose potential flying altitude, on a good day, was incapable of exceeding fifteen feet from the ground; the latter prognostication constituting the proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back.”

Trump then, angrily and dejectedly, locked himself away in one of the gold-leafed executive bathrooms and there, unsuccessfully attempted to mitigate his despicable loss of face by aggressively and imperially, brandishing his thickly imprinting black “Sharpie,” mandating that all unemployed citizens be subject to a government-ordered draft to serve as caddies at his golf clubs, and notably, outlawing the “treasonous” ingestion of kale and broccoli.

Nor could his afternoon Presidential Conference with his erudite cabinet fare better; the marshmallows kept melting in the fire and falling off the stick. It ain’t easy to shoulder the awesome responsibilities and infinite duties of the American Presidency; you can ask the beleagured Donald Trump for indignant confirmation.

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A “mirror” is universally known as an examined surface that bounces light back to a reflective image of a subject in front of it. It is routinely used in mundane activities such as shaving, dressing, applying makeup, or simply taking a quick glance. The mirror reflects the subject examined by virtue of its fabrication, i.e., its physical appearance, albeit optically reversed. The utilitarian feature is in affording the current appearance of the displayed image of which is an objective reflection.

The aforementioned declaration, while admittedly tautological, is contextually relevant to this writing by reason of the dystopian impact of the bizarre, distorted, reflective features of the singular,orange-tinted mirror of reality, employed by the dystopian American President, Donald Trump. Such a singular device bizarrely reflects back Trump’s desired images, albeit illusory. Examples are the current existence of lower of lowered consumer prices, the irrefutable well-being of the Nation’s citizenry, the extant international veneration for America’s present policies and executive pronouncements, as well as the irrefutably salubrious state of the Planet. The Trumpian orange-tinted mirror neurotically reflects a delusional picture of reality, subscribed to by the myopically egocentric persona of the delusional, sitting President.

As a cogent, impactful example, the reader will, no doubt, recall Trump’s regular propagandistic references to the immigrants from Central and South America as “Caravans of perverse criminals and rapists.” The immigration policies of our Nation have eternally required streamlining, but the demagogic portrayal of “caravans” of undesirables has never been empirically demonstrated. We might observe that the overblown effect of problematic immigration has,, for the devious Donald J. Trump, merely a tactically useful (and apparently effective) ruse for the hubristic assertion of unconstitutional, authoritarian power.

Thus, when authoritative studies revealed that the Nation’s immigrant population generally proved to be law-abiding, productive, tax-paying citizens, the orange-tinged mirror was responsively and magically re-oriented to reflect the egregious “Caravans” of federally appointed masked hoodlums, permissively wreaking misery and tragedy upon the hapless Hispanic population of hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding, and military-serving Hispanic residents.

Trump’s private, masked army of hoodlums has demonstratively responded to Trump’s orange-tinted delusional mirror by its unwarranted and Gestapo-like tactics practiced against peaceful Hispanic families, including harassment, physical abuse, arrest, and incarceratioin, family separation, physical abuse, and banishment, illegally and without a particle of due process. Trump’s masked brown shirts asrny in reality have acted cruelly and fascistically in an unconstitutional and immoral manner, pursuant to Trump’s perverted, orange-tinted mirror ofsubjective reality.

Trump must be soundly defeated by the traditional American voter; we are confident that his singular preoccupation with his nefarious, egocentric, orange-tinted mirror will eternally prevent him from the awareness of the objective significance of multiple thousands of dedicated American citizens protesting, in cold Winter, against his dystopian, authoritarian, and delusionally egocentric rule.

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The literary phrase, “Hoisted by his own petard,” which memorably appears in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” means, in modern vernacular, defeated by your own mischief. It is notable that, in addition to the dual modes of resisting the imminent threat to the Nation of totalitarian power, public demonstrations of dissent and personal, systemic abhorrence of autocracy (see: immediately preceding writings), there yet exists a third, especially effective, weapon, Donald J. Trump himself.

Over slightly less than two centuries of the nation’s history, the American citizen has developed certain fundamental expectations regarding the conduct and public character of the Presidency, regardless of policy or affiliated party. As the discerned face of the Nation, his comportment and choice of policies are empirically required to be rational and consistent, and thereby understandable, enabling relevant reaction, positive or otherwise. In dynamic principle, it would pragmatically appear to be easier to respond to a negative than to an inconsistent motivation. It is said that Nature abhors a vacuum, and by analogous reference, political relations mandate reasonable consistency.

Trump’s irrational and bizarre international behavior has certainly not inspired the unequivocal respect and expected endurance as Chief Executive of the most powerful and consequential Nation on the planet; his equivocation regarding the support of beleaguered Ukraine, his on/off bromance with Russia’s Putin, his hubristic ideations concerning the acquisition of Greenland, and making an American State of our sovereign neighbor, Canada, of inilaterally re-naming the Gulf of Mexico, his unsauthorized bombing of Venezualen boats at sea, his unilateral bombing of Iran, Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, kidnap of Nicholas Madero, without Congressional authorization and his remarkably deluded demand, nonetheless, for the Nobel Peace Prize, affiirms the conclusion that his reality orientation shares the clinically diagnostic level of the proverbial “Emperor With No Clothes.”

Trump’s hubristic and ignorant travesties of human reason and developed standards of societally acceptable behavior have been previously, excruciatingly, and shamefully detailed at length and need no supporting or redundant reprise in this writing. The huge throngs of dissenters angrily occupying the icy cold weather streets and avenues across the Nation, furnish incontrovertible evidence of Trump’s universal disdain, based upon such unconstitutional and immoral behavior.

The most proximately convincing evidence supporting Trump’s permanent removal from office and appropriate punishment is blatantly supplied by the empirically self-immolating Trump, himself, who, in the Elizabethan terminology of William Shakespeare, is “hoisted by his own petard.”

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As loyal and concerned American citizens, we are heartened and encouraged by the copious number of huge citizen demonstrations of opposition to the Trumpian-Fascistic pandemic, toxicly infecting our precious and uniquely humanistic body politic. Ardent opposition to authoritarian governance is irrefutably demonstrated by the spontaneous and outrageous reaction to the dystopic outrageous policies and actions of the egomaniacal neurotic, Donald Trump, and his compliant menagerie of freak-show Cabinet Ministers. Any conceivable doubt about the protestors’ ardency and sincerity is empirically dispelled by the televised view of the many thousands of Minnesotans demonstrating in sub-zero temperatures.

We applaud spontaneous expressions of patriotism for democracy and opposition to the developing autocracy under Trump and deem them of existential importance to the restoration and endurance of America’s historically venerated Democratic Republic.

Yet, contextually, we would responsibly urge the simultaneous opposition to autocracy on an internally resolute basis. An autocratic seedling cannot take root and grow in resistant environmental conditions, and internally principled resistance to the noxious weed is vital to its necessary withering and non- invasiveness. It would be ultimately tragic to ignore or facilely accept or haplessly adapt to the democratically debilitating toxicity of this politically lethal disease, whose predictable etiology is to sicken the body politic with its insalubrious deprival of natural liberty and freedom of action. A totalitarian polity cannot empirically exist without a compliant population.

The ultimate guard rails of our precious Democratic Republic is the systemic existence of individual freedoms; matters to be internally established and, when appropriate, publicly expressed. No mainstream citizen is responsibly exempt from its assertion, publicly as well as its fundamental assertion, as preventative internal medicine.

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Despite the evident distinction in purpose, form, and dynamics between a literary book comment and the stereotypical blog, for present, contextual purposes, we would briefly refer to a modern resonant novel by John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent.” Such a reference also confirms the universal observation that good literature reveals mankind’s universally timeless issues.

For those who have yet to read it, the novel, in essence, criticizes the corruption and materialism of modern American society, contrasting it with our traditional American values, and examines the conflict between privately held morality and the desire for profit or position.

The contextual utility of the book’s universal theme is observably realized in the dynamic assessment of the high degree of dismay of mainstream America, relative to the extant state of our traditionally venerated Democratic Republic, under Trump-MAGA rule. The empirical understanding of this dissonant condition would seem to be essential to efforts at its beneficial amelioration.

In a Nation “governed by and for the People,” it is fundamental that the people, in terms of education and informed awareness, are inclined to inspire a suitable choice of leadership.. As Thomas Jefferson admonished, the success of a Democratic Republic requires a literate and informed public. We heartily agree, but where, lately, did we go wrong? Can we return to the American traditional way of life? Our answers are in the affirmative if we, as a Nation, notably desire to do so.

History recalls to us that the radically free and democratic polity created by our Founders employed a governmental architecture and design meant to last as long as its citizenry philosophically and empirically warranted. It is our sad observation that such an intention has, (hopefully, only temporarily) taken a back seat to a ubiquitously singular citizen preoccupation with purported convenience. The latter condition has empirically proven to be hazardous to democracy.

In earlier writings, we observed the jejune error in the optimistic predictions of the Founders. Their assumption that informed citizens would amicably and dutifully debate the contested issues of the day, and that the results would be a useful and relevant guide to a Nation, dedicated to governance by and for the People. As unfortunately experienced, citizens with disparate opinions on issues such as abortion rights, guns, immigration, gender rights, and the environment developed groups of like opinion, engaged in a “cold war” style enmity with other like groups of divergent political and social opinion. The salubrious benefits of debate or political conversation on controverted issues were conveniently eschewed in favor of peaceable, but useless, competing “groupthink,” or facile accommodation.

The widespread metastasis of such pernicious social disease, invasive of the body politic, was discernibly enhanced by the unhealthy depersonalization of communication by the use of digital, rather than salubrious, affirming, personal interaction. The many vital emotional and psychological benefits derived from the practice of natural, emotionally satisfying human interaction were sadly surrendered in favor of facile, albeit emotionally and socially unsatisfactory, impersonal digital contact. The consequence was the societally atavistic return to singular loneliness; the general perception of a healthy communal life morphed into a lonely mission for personal success and ephemeral pleasure.

As we perceive it, the resultant perception of insecure, solitary, and vulnerable existence was ripe for demagogic influence and exploitation. Absent some useful understanding of the eternal human condition, the individual is left feeling rootless and vulnerableto the cruel vagaries of chance. Without the philosophical assurance of classic experiential reality, man’s aspirations are haplessly constrained to survival and the achievement of material success. Man becomes a vulnerable “Lone Ranger rather than an assured, shared, societal participant.

Attracted by this modern, superficial morass, like a bumblebee to a yellow daisy, appears the demagogic snake oil salesman and accomplished grifter, Donald J. Trump, hungry for power and perceived adoration, proposing an American Valhalla to the vulnerable and grievance-ridden populist voters. Tragically, and by reason of the lack of contemplative mitigation by the learned classic and timeless human perspective is bizarrely, elected. The sad results, ubiquitously observed in prior writings, are only too well known.

Analogous to the thematic “Winter of Our Discontent,” the American society, under Trump, has, in large part, descended to the contextual level of competition between avowed morality and humanism and individual material benefit and desired status.

What is clinically needed are programs of societal (as opposed to solitary) activity, a renaissance in personal advancement by reading enjoyable and experientially enlightening literature, joint social activities like picnics, publicly attended events, public and private, respectful discussion of current events, and a shared faith in the traditional benefits of education, tolerance, and human empathy.

Voters with such, beneficial traits would bring a desirable,” seasonal” improvement to our present “Winter of Discontent,” and a salubrious renewal of the traditional American seasonal calendar of individual liberty and universal brotherhood.

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In the present era of the billionaire, including the President himself, Donald J. Trump, has seen fit to mercilessly cut the government food stamp program, “SNAP,” by the reported astronomical amount of 186 billion dollars over a period of 10 years. He has also threatened to withhold State funds unless certain inappropriate disclosures are made regarding citizenship and employment. Statistics indicate that food insecurity is at its highest level since America’s Great Depression.

It is also known that our hubristic President, whose singular personal celebrity requires performance in golden bathrooms, has eliminated the USAID program, traditionally furnishing medical and food assistance to the needy in foreign countries. In our view, the vast multitude of Donald Trump’s acts of cruelty and immorality are not as emotionally or morally indigestible as his atrocious acts of food deprivation to the hungry.

Trump’s dystopian acts of political and financial irrationality; his undermining of the constitution and the rule of law, his cdemonstrated lack of societal moral compass, his improper and illegal use of the highest office to astronomically magnify his wealth, his serial mendacity, his brisk commerce with prostitutes, his seditious invocation of violent insurrection, followed by inappropriate grants of pardon to the supportive offenders, his sub-rosa payment of “hush money” to conceal his brisk commerce with prostitutes, his fascistic program of “retribution” against p[olitical opponents, indeed, even his horrendous Gestapo policy toweards peaceful Hispanic Americans, in our view, take back seats to his psychopathic denial of food to needy children and adults.

• [Ref: “Weapons of Mass Destruction.”]

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If, in the world of empirical reality, one were obliged to concede any capability at all, attributable to Donald J. Trump, it would be that of bluff or sub-rosa grift; an adequate awareness of such perverse qualities is singularly utilitarian in the vain search for some possible comprehension of his recondite and singular persona. His systemic talents relate to the manipulatively deceitful world of the “grift,” around which he has determined the fixed (and defensive) orbit of his life.

We have experienced that to seek to comprehend the exotic, egocentric mind of Trump, one needs to look behind his false and intentionally deceptive assertions of fact and personal intention, aware of his publicly proclaimed predilection for “alternate facts” in aid of his unwavering course of egocentric motivation.

Donald J. Trump would have the public misled by a tsunami of anti-immigrant policies and statements, ostensively appealing to the Nation’s extant xenophobic inclinations, in tactical service to his ultimate drive to increase his autocratic power. The reader will no doubt recall the tactical “caravans” warning.

It is to be noted that even an inadequately educated populist, like Donald Trump, is fully cognizant that the Nation is principally populated by immigrants and their progeny, that Trump’s three marriages (including the “First Lady”) were to immigrants, as was his father. His theatrical demagogic assertions that immigrants are uniformly degenerate criminals are patently and obviously far overstated and tactical, and demonstrative examples of Trump’s stereotypic “schtick.”

Trump has outrageously and in an entirely un-American fashion created and financially supported a masked, rogue army of aggressive miscreants to publicly wield fascistic power in effectuating his public declaration of intent to be a dictator. His paramount (if not his sole concern) is such assertion of unlimited power, not as deceitfully represented, immigration and border control. One might relevantly inquire as to the geographic relevance of the assignment of an armed horde of “border control agents” to Minnesota and Illinois.

Within the p;ast few days, two upstanding American citizens have been shot and killed by Donald Trump’s masked hoodlums, neither of whom were (criminal) immigrants. To our analytic and moral perception, the intentional murder of one of the peaceful protestors, Alex Preti, a 37-year-old Intensive care nurse, bears a notable, tragic similarity to the New Testament’s account of the murder of Jesus.

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