It would be unlikely to find a mainstream American citizen who did not experience feelings of relief and euphoric happiness at viewing the television extravaganza of the National Convention of the Democratic Party Convention. In addition to the official nomination and acceptance of the party’s selection for President and Vice-president of the exciting and attractive Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, the Mardi Gras celebration, celebratorily and colorfully concluding with a monsoon of red, white, and blue balloons, may have been the most stimulating and exciting televised event of the year, including the super bowl.
Previous feelings of worry and despair relative to the unspeakable, but, nevertheless, imminent threat of a second Trump term of Presidency., were dispelled by the huge celebrant crowd of jubilant attendees, vocally expressing joy and optimism for the success of the newly configured ticket. The celebrants reveled in the supportive remarks of identified speakers, including some patriotic Republicans who demonstrated the priority of their patriotic concerns for the Democratic Republic exceeding their political partisanship.
The occasion was uplifting and implicitly prescient that next November will witness the defeat of the morally repugnant, would-be autocrat, Donald Trump, and his sizeable, lemming-like cult of MAGA acolytes. The feeling of renewed security and confidence in the endurance of our historically democratic way of life was palpable and was thunderously expressed.
We, too, share such renewed feelings of optimism and regenerated hope in the empirical prevalence of our traditional way of life over the advent of despotic authoritarianism but, nevertheless, maintain a perseverant, subtle fear of political catastrophe, the eternal chronic potential of which is wisely to be eternally, considered.
Our fear is not neurotic, but, rather, wide-eyed and empirical, It is founded upon our inability to comprehend the nature of the mindset attributable to such a sizeable population of Trump supporters. No breach of ethics, familial or official, no act of impropriety or incapability, and no acts of venal turpitude, including behavior ranging from blatant tax fraud, bribery, and public deception to treason against the Nation and commerce with its historical enemies, would appear to be sufficient to diminish their avid support. They have shown themselves to be enigmatic and impossible to comprehend. The fateful election to the Presidency by Donald Trump was declared to be a “surprise;” surprises, we learned can be precarious; the latter, forever confirmed by the unexpected, and fateful elevation of Donald Trump to the Nation’s Oval Office.
Should, as now appears to be eminently possible, Donald Trump be defeated in the coming Presidential election, we would be sophomorically irresponsible and empirically, foolhardy to assume that “Trumpism” and Christian White Nationalism, as metastatic, cancers to democracy will abate. Such pathology will, unfortunately, toxically persist as an existential threat to our Democratic Republic and must be eternally, pragmatically considered.
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