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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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We, presumably, in common with other sufficiently enlightened members of human society, subscribe to the epistemological theory that knowledge is singularly acquired by man’s experience (John Locke). The presenting theme is intended to reflect our personal reservations about the empirically grounded perception of American citizenship now prevalent among our younger citizens, in light of the unprecedented events during the Trump Administration.

Since childhood, we were ubiquitously imbued with the beneficial American principles of legal equality and liberty, of personal and institutional morality, of love of country, the commonality of its citizens, the moral precedence of honesty, and empathic regard for others, less fortunate than ourselves.

As young children, our learned love of country was patriotically demonstrated, among other things, by the dedication of play time to retrieve scrap metals and rubber for the war effort during the 1940’s; we did so as systematically conjoined American children who later. proudly and joyfully, participated in the public celebrations of the Nation’s existential military victory over fascism.

As schoolchildren, we felt part of the diverse neighborhood and school, played in the neighborhood streets, public park, and ball fields, mutually revered outstanding baseball players, and regularly engaged in daily interactive personal communication. Certain contextual subjects were universally sacrosanct: family loyalty, the critical importance of education, citizen loyalty, demonstrative morality (inclusive of respect for the elderly) and, when appropriate, empirical sacrifice.

We were fortunate to be served by dedicated and capable Presidents such as F.D.R. (humanistic programs, social security, unemployment insurance), J.FK and Lyndon Johnson (civil liberties, voting rights act), and Barack Obama (Health Insurance and the primacy of education). The constitutional tripartite architecture of government was scrupulously observed; not the least significant was the legal supervisory Supreme Court of the United States, which scrupulously and apolitically monitored the application of the Fifth Amendment, together with the temporal existence of a two-party political system assuring balance and equity in legislation. We were proud members of a Democratic Republic, which was ever advancing toward a more perfect (equal) union and was an avatar of rectitude and individual liberty.

Dynamically analogous to the tragic onset of metastasizing cancer, the toxic invasion of the body politic of the historically admirable American Nation, disasterously transmogrified into one of an unprecedented, autocratic, and dystopic nature; featuring as its populist progenitor, Donald J. Trump and his loyal menagerie of incapable, corrupt, albeit mandatorily loyal, Cabinet Ministers.

The younger population of the Nation, thus presented with a distorted travesty of American stewardship, has witnessed the illegal waging of war, the ubiquitous government abuse of civil rights, the Presidential denial of certified election results and the fomenting and support of an insurrection against the Capitol, and later, the arbitrarily pardoning the criminal participants, the employment and support of a miscreant horde of masked hoodlums with the franchise to arrest and even murder peaceful Hispanic Americans, the confusion and betrayal of the Nation’s historic allies, including NATO. the ignorant and unauthorized imposition of high tariffs on the Nation’s trading partners, the extinction of empathic programs of medical and food assistance, domestically and internationally; while simultaneously gilding the White House, and insanely demolishing its historical East Wing, illegally obtaining billions of dollars of bribes, inclusive of a jumbo jet, a Presidential attack on the Nation’s institutes of higher education as well as its cultural treasures such as the Smithsonian Institution, an irresponsible eliminatation of the utilitarian Federal Civil Service, most notably, its medical research facilities, the unprecedented and, unconstitutional employment of the military for perceived domestic needs support of White Christian Militias aggressive assertion of claims of ownership of sovereign Nations such as Greenland and Canada; and among the virtualkly rndless list Trump’s apparently brisk commerce with prostitutes and unsavoury personalities such as Jeffry Epstein.

The once-revered legal overseer, SCOTUS, has, under the dystopic Trump Administration, has dishearteningly become politically and morally corrupt, the Republican Congress has been entirely emasculated and catatonic, and the Justice Department and the FBI have been perversely dedicated to pleasing the corrupt and egocentric President.

The experiential context of American governance, at present, is unprecedentedly perverted and historically non-traditional, thus causing us to be concerned about its perception and the principled expectations of the maturing American as well as his willing participation.

We had no such analogous challenge.

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As a brief “time-out” from the vexing discussion of the disgraceful Trump quagmire, we have elected to temporarily comply with readers who have expressed a desire for additional “ancient lore” regarding our 1940’s childhood in the exotic Askenazi Jewish immigrant ambiance of 1940’s Brooklyn, New York. We may have previously attempted to verbally reprise the outdoor, savoury cooking redolence emanating from the tenement dwellings at mealtimes and the variety of comestibles sold by the ubiquitous street food vendors; however, the subject of the commercial sale of ethnic food specialties may permissibly bear some further discussion.

In Eastern European tradition, bread was unquestionably the metaphysically understood, basic life-giver, both symbolically and empirically. The breads of Eastern Europe were heavier and considerably more nutritious than the lighter breads of America and France, and indeed were the “staple of life.” The popular breads of our immigrant neighbors were pumpernickel (dark) and rye (lighter), but never “White Bread.” Challah was the special bread for the Sabbath, sweet Challah for the Sabbath, and round, sweet Challah for the Jewish New Year.

We have bitter-sweet recollections of going to the local bakery (“Segaloff’s”) each week, with maternal instructions to purchase a “two-pound rye and six rolls”, such request responsibly repeated by the elderly, toothless, proprietess, Mrs. Segaloff, in an exotic, liquified rendition; the recollection of the latter request, apparently, eternally available to the nostalgic ear of our ancient recollection.

On the same street as the bakery, “Belmont Avenue,” there stood three ethnically iconic representatives of the representative” cuisine of the local residents. The “Appetizing Store” ( baked and salted fish and savouries, cheeses, bagels, mixed salads, egg, tuna, salmon, herring, whitefish). The harmonious symphony of redolent piquancy was an unspoken but irresistible invitation to breakfast and an irresistible solicitation to purchase.

Two contextually significant iconic institutions were ensconced on the same city block, completing the savoury, ethnic mis-en-scene. These may have, to our recollection, represented the most articulate and ethnically representative institutions, beneficially afforded to the mundane lives and basic culinary experiences of the newly arrived, Eastern European refugees, fleeing from World prosecution; they were the reverential, large wooden barrels, containing, respectively, sour dill pickles and salt herring.

We have never been able to successfully replicate the taste of the dill pickles, fished out for sale from the huge redolent pickle barrel and sold for an individual price of three cents. Notably, we adhered to the empirical theory that such pickles, eaten in the rain, had enhanced taste; however, we were not able to discern whether the dynamics of the empirical result were chemical or emotional.

The fat, salty herrings had their own exclusive taste and were highly prized by our Lithuanian-Russian father, whose available caviar was “Schmaltz” (fat) herring, boiled potato, and pumpernickel bread, the royal repast of Olympian Dieties. The vendor, after fishing out the purchased salot herring from the expansive barrel. would wrap the savoury aquatic delectable, diagonally, in a page of the daily Jewish newspaper.

It has eternally been our contemplative opinion that olfactory and taste recollections are, like “muscle memory,” not the empirical product of cerebral recollection.

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The less-than-genial, tight-lipped Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, referring to Donald J. Trump, as reported. stated: “He is the worst person I ever met in my life.” Canada’s Prime Minister, Carney, publicly declared… “Trump has destroyed the World Order.”

For quite some time, we had unsuccessfully sought some conceivable answer to the intriguing question of Trump’s singularly nuanced persona and motivation. However, we have recently come to affirm our earliest thematic caricature of Donald J. Trump, as a life-long veritable “enfant terrible,” one who would, expectedly, kick his mother in the shins to neurotically gain her exclusive attention. Despite his awareness of its predictable retribution, the irresistible lust for childish personal attention overriding all other considerations. We are now confident that our early caricatured analogy has analogical merit in understanding Donald Trump’s systematic motivation.

In our considered view, contrary to Trump’s ostensible portrayal of himself as a confident and celebrated leader, he suffers from a neurotically insatiable appetite for acceptance and approval, with the possibility of success analogous to the ultimate inability to fill a wooden bucket rife with leaks at its bottom. Like the Grecian mythological Tantalus, the desired grapes remain, eternally “out of reach.”

Neither arrogantly overriding the Nation’s constitution and rule of law, unilaterally declaring war, organizing a private, masked army to arrest and make the lives of Hispanic Americans unbearable, aggressively employing his misunderstanding of tariffs to purportedly intimidate other trading nations, nor arbitrary elimination of the utilitarian Federal Civil Service, the gauche act of gilding of the Nation’s White House, notably, at a time when 40% of the Nation is living, patcheck to paycheck, his directed demolition of its historical “East Wing,” the arrogant and improper placement of his name on the Nation’s venerated cultural Centers, the romancing of foreign autocrats, suicidal attacks on NATO, aggrandizing threats to take over foreign sovereign nations, like Greenland and our good neighbor, Canada, his asserted intimidation of our Nation’s institutions of Higher Education, and Cultural Centers, demands for the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and senseless intimidation of Panama, his autocratic elimination of funding to National Educationa Radio and Television, nor his bizarre assertion of entitlement to the Nobel Prize, has sufficed to assuage his insecure and eternally frustrated need for admiration. The law of gravity seems bent on leaking all of the watery substance of his desperate acts through the eternally present leakholes in his empirical bucket.

We have come to the empirically based realization that, to the exclusion of other conceivably laudable aspirations, such as a sense of competent achievement, moral reverence, honor, and recognizedly wise mature judgment, contrastingly Trump’s desperately nuanced thirst for general approval as a “winner” has been the singular North Star in his lifelong misdirected voyage to the land of perceived potential sainthood or reverential honor. The more impure water added to the leaky bucket of his neurotically monomaniacal need, the more leaky his biographical bucket.

The “leaky wooden bucket” analogy, we have, at last, come to realize, is the dynamic motivation for his insatiable egocentrism and the systemic attribution for his dystopian behavior. Regardless of his asserted bravado and vociferous pretension, the underlying dynamic energy source is fear and infantile insecurity.

We must be more selective in our acceptance of Presidential aspirants.

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The shameful period of the Spanish and Portuguese “Conquistadors” evinced great cruelty in the bloody conquest of vast parts of the Americas, driven by gold, glory, and God (Christianity). History recites the abominable cruelty practiced against the indigenous empires, like that of the Aztecs and the Incas, by such villains as Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro. ( 15th – 17th Century). There has unfortunately been a surfeit of wars between sovereign states since that time, but notably, few instances of colonialism.

It is remarkable to observe that Donald J. Trump, albeit in his second time at bat as American President, suffers from such systemic myopia as not to realize that the metaphysical history of our Nation is one of rebellion against colonialism. Perhaps less time on the golf course, hanging out at the local McDonald’s, and a little time at the Presidential library might help.

Trump seems to harbor the neurotic illusion that, as a uniquely skilled negotiator, he can easily and skillfully accomplish desirable or profitable (rare Earth minerals) results. Yet, his only negotiating skill seems to be limited to the act of demanding; nothing further. His alleged book, “Art of the Deal,” was written by a ghostwriter, who we understand was not paid for his authorship. Better that the book (and his misplaced Greenland intentions) were entitled, “Art of the Steal.”

The outrageously hubristic claims regarding Denmark’s sovereign State of Greenland ( like Trump’s bromance with Putin and his claims regarding Ukraine) have been criticised by political leaders, domestic and international, as unwarranted and legally outrageous, Nevertheless,t Trump, in his impenetrable, myopic, and egoistic bubble, seems adamant on his unjustified and irrational themat aspiration, even to the extreme extent of threatening military intervention. A dilemma, apparently ignored by the dystopic President and his menagerie of side-show Cabinet Ministers, is that Denmark is a member of the European Union and NATO. The latter organization is confirmed in its obligation of mutual defense if any one of its members is threatened by war. The latter agreement has salubriously ensured decades of World peace,

The Presidency of Donald J. Trump is more than amoral and embarrassingly incompetent; it also pollutes world progress toward lasting peace and humanistic advancement. The Greenland example is but one of his ample litany of unwise and injudicial performance.

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Mainstream America is struggling to accept the unprecedentedly bizarre state of the Nation under the present Trump Administration. It is notably stunned at the breakneck speed at which it has been transformed from a Nation beneficially advancing toward “a more perfect union” to its present (hopefully temporary) condition of undemocratic, dystopian rule.

One of Trump’s plethora of shameful, un-American practices is his establishment and support of a private, large, (masked) armed and uniformed militia to implement his Gestapo-style, xenophobic detestation of Hispanic Americans. The selective Presidential pogrom is redolent of Adolph Hitler’s memorable “Kristallnacht” of the 1930’s. Peaceabiding, productive, taxpaying, Hispanic Americans, many of whom have resided in the Nation for decades, are being ethnically uprooted, criminally charged, incarcerated, and even banished to foreign torture prisons, without just cause or due process.

To empirically convey an adequately realistic picture of such horrendous iniquity, we have elected to reprise an eye-opening employment advertisement from the local newspaper of West Pennsyltucky, Ohio, “The Tobacco Road Sentinel:

“Help Wanted-Federal Jobs.””Well-paying government positions- available (no required interview or paperwork) at the Federal Agency of International Customs and Immigration Enforcement [“ICE”]. free starched khaki uniforms, heavy nail boots, thick leather belts, black face masks, leather gloves, guns, crowd-persuasive equipment, including electrical stun-guns, bear spray, with free refills. Free pool hall, chips, and weekend beer,

Applicants must be indisputably white, at least 19 years of age, and born in the United States or its Territories. No educational requirements; bonus paid for applicants with criminal records, double bonus if for assault and battery. Free legal representation and guaranteed pardon, in the event of legal conviction. Free group truck transport to work, heavy gloves, beer, and free medical attention, including orthopedic surgery. MAGA voters preferred.”

The recent notable rise in employment status, proclaimed by Donald J. Trump, has been authoritatively attributed to a recent surge in ICE applicants.

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We are thoroughly exasperated at the lack of critical response to the propagandistic misuse of the modern term “woke,” tactically reconfigured by the bigoted citizen to represent a populist epithet. It has no such epithetical intent or meaning, and we are disappointed that the responsible media have failed to criticise such misuse. A distasteful example of its misuse is the populist boast of the right-wing Governor of the State of Florida, Ron DeSantis: “Florida is the State where ‘woke’ goes to die.”The dystopian misdemeanor is termed “wokism.”

Right-wing politicians tactically solicit support from their regressive MAGA supporters with the application of the misused word in sundry forms, like “wokeness” to indicate unacceptability or even un-American. As indicated, we are angered and frustrated with said ignorant practice, which anger is exacerbated by the empirical absence of critical comments concerning such miscreant use.

The thematic term “woke” is a populist form of the adjective “awakened” and connotes awareness, consciousness, and recognition, especially social consciousness. Does the Florida Governor intend to indicate pride in his boastful assertion that “woke” or social consciousness comes to die in Florida, from his observed views and actions, he may well be effectively accurate.

The sincere efforts of right-thinking, constitutionally observant Americans of every skin color and ethnos to attain “a more perfect union,” in which “equality” is universal has been a long, arduous, albeit positive, movement, aggravated by the past, historically inhumane chattel slavery of black people. While the aspiration for universal equality is socially challenging, social interaction and relevant legislation have advanced such avowed American ideal, albeit slowly.

In the interim, relative to many social phenomena, the plight of black and colored people, relative to various contexts, is empirically more problematic than that of white people. Finance, domicile, mortgaging, employment, admission to Country Clubs, and certain organizations are representative examples. Although unintended by right-thinking American citizens, this societal difference is sociologically termed “White Privilege,” the somber recognition of which is existentially important in the pursuit of the Nation’s traditionally avowed, universal equality.

Such humanistic, societal recognition is the pragmatic prerequisite to the ultimate attainment of universal American equality; it is referred to as “woke.”

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Much has been written about the unprecedented, dystopian term of office of Donald J. Trump. Its evident incompetence is overshadowed by its plethora of hubristic, illegal, and monomaniacal acts that have, in a short space of time, notably despoiled the rational salubrity of our Nation’s founding and demoted our world standing. Many Americans have conveniently relegated the Trump phenomenon to his presumed status as a sui generis persona charged with the singular goal of self-aggrandizement. We shared the latter opinion until our thematic epiphany.

The huge “No Kings” citizen demonstrations were in proximate response to the objectionable, unlimited exercise of autocratic power by an American President. The egocentric and bizarrely unprecedented acts of Donald J. Trump were performed, irrespective of the Nation’s constitution, system of laws, and all too often, contrary to the societal moral compass. Professionalism, precedent, decency, and humanism were overthrown by Trump’s neurotic need for public adoration and recognition as a majestic leader.

Other similar demonstrations were in response to his draconian policies concerning immigration, his irrational and unjustified claims of territorial aggrandizement, overweening personal enrichment, and general arbitrary rule. These historic traits are inarguably comparable to the perverse monarchical privilege, against which the American colonies successfully revolted.

The latter observation usefully provided a cogent explanation (“epiphany”) for the observably bizarre, atavistic policies and actions of Donald Trump, supplemental to his empirically demonstrated personal egocentrism.

Raising and financing a private army, expressing imperial requests for acquiring other sovereign States, arbitrarily waging war against foreign nations, sinking foreign ships on the high seas, enriching himself and family, granting pardons to egregious criminals, availing himself of an underage harem (a la Epstein), accumulating gold to decorate his living environment, taking repressive actions against political opponents, using the Nation’s military for desired domestic purposes, instituting arbitrary tariffs on trading partners, granting tax and other benefits to his billionnaire supporters while ignoring the plight of the poor.

A cursory review of history will readily disclose that the above-enumerated traits of our present Chief Executive are analogous to those of the historic European kings, the latter observation providing the thematic context for this writing, i,e., the sought-for, but unaccountable explanation for the bizarre Trump Presidency.

Donald Trump is a modern-day anachronism, a leftover from past history, analogous to a vestigial organ such as the tonsils or the appendix. There are no uses for such appendages, and the same are best excised before they become toxic. The American voter will soon doubtlessly demonstrate the surgical procedure concerning its highest office.

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