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 decades 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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