The persistence of the bizarre, unsupported canard, by Trump and his blindly, loyal cult followers, that Joseph Biden’s victory in the 2020 Presidential election, was, somehow, “stolen” from him, most especially, in the face of the multiple, consistent dismissals, by the Courts, State Officials, and relevant, federal agencies, of such entirely, unfounded claims, has become, intolerable.
The substantial numbers of otherwise, seemingly sane, American citizens, who continue to be Trump’s ardent supporters, notwithstanding the latter’s criminal, immoral and anti-democratic behavior (a substantial demonstration of which, having been viewed on public television) is bewildering. The wide and multifarious scope of the former President’s willful, errant behavior spectacularly, spans the entire range of wrongdoing, from basic payoffs and bribery, relative to his commerce with prostitutes, tax fraud and criminal negligence, to felonious interference with the right to vote and solicitation of voter record distortion, violations of the emolument clause, and inarguably, the serious of all, the solicitation of National insurrection and treason.
Prior to the single and singular, four-year term of Donald Trump who, in his brief term of office, shamefully accrued no less than two Congressional impeachments, there existed a tacit, pragmatic, presumption that Presidential candidates were undoubtedly, upstanding and moral in their private and public lives. Donald Trump, however, uniquely, demonstrated that an American President is factually, capable of being selected, notwithstanding a lack of moral compass. In his ignorance, egocentricity, serial mendacity and complete absence of principle, Trump demonstrated that with a sufficient number of cultish support, moral, societal and humanistic, principles were not (for him) personally, binding.
Most astonishing, and emotionally, exhausting, is the Franz Kafka-Lewis Carroll- fun house mirror degree of distortion of reality, evinced in Trump’s behavior and his, delusional, Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, claim of a rigged or “stolen election.” One of the plethora of Federal and State indictments, charges his unabashed, fraudulent, telephonic request, then demand, that the Georgia Secretary of State, fraudulently, add a certain number of fictional, non-existent, votes to his election count, to grant him a Georgia State victory. Such criminal and unconstitutional, request to illegally alter the tabulation of vote results, happily, was dutifully, denied. Fortuitously, the illicit telephone request was televised and the shameless crime, in all its venality, viewed by the American public.
It is to be, especially noted, that this, televised, criminal attempt, and a plethora of additional perverse acts, intended to rig, or “steal” the vote, was, observably, performed by Trump, personally, (or in his behalf, by his minions). Yet the former President, the serial prevaricator, himself, miraculously, charged the Biden supporters with rigging the election. Irrefutably observed, however, it was the greasy, orange-haired, (Trump) hand, that was inserted in the proverbial cookie jar and, empirically, witnessed by all, (including the large, irrational, populist underbelly, of accusatory cultists, doggedly, supportive of Trump).
A reasonable application of the elegant-sounding, designation, “cognitive dissonance,” can, permissibly, be identified in a situation in which one’s actions are inconsistent with his personal and fundamental beliefs.
We are reasonably confident of the rectitude of our humanistic, assumption that, at minimum, many of the most ardent of Trump cultists, in their private (family, neighborly, societal, collegiate) lives, do, in fact, personally, conform to the societally, approved, customs, habits and social expectations; notably, as to the existential, societal requirement of truthfulness (as opposed to “alternate facts”). An instructed recollection, concerning these appropriate personal behaviors, together, with a reasonable degree of societally, aware, un-Trump-like, reminders of the diversity of other members of the community, might prove to be personally, ameliorative. It would seem implausible to imagine that Donald J. Trump’s, brazen and inane, demagoguery is of such nuclear, lethal impact, that, universally, every general listener’s persona is, thereby, involuntarily, and permanently, transmogrified into one of, unadulterated, chronic psychopathy.
From a positive and humanistic point of view, there may exist a cogent possibility as to such, unfortunately, brainwashed, Trump acolytes, of appropriate restitution to the status of confident, well-adjusted and useful mainstream, citizens. As a matter of National and moral responsibility, reasonable efforts, in such direction, on behalf of such misguided, American citizens, may be worth considering.
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