Trump, Kafka, and Socrates Walk Into A Courthouse
We'll long for gentler days, when bread was cheaper and circuses, at least, entertaining
Donald Trump’s legacy within the GOP is forever up in the air. Although he enjoys steadfast support from large swaths of the Republican base, few establishment Republican leaders fully endorse him, with a handful openly wearing the ‘Never Trumper’ badge with more pride than prejudice.
Yet, this is nothing next to the solid wall of pure loathing Democrats have built around Trump, brick by loyal brick.
No Democrat is indifferent to Trump. There’s no middle ground, no lukewarm disdain. Whereas some Republicans may betray him at the slightest convenience, Democrats will always remain unwaveringly hostile. They can be trusted to spit on Trump’s grave, the absence of flowers a silent testament to Republican embarrassment. They will write frightening verse and prose about the ‘Bad Orange Man’ long after he’s dust.
This kind of loyalty can’t be bought, not with money nor office. And it’s an ironclad reason to believe that Trump’s notorious legacy will endure.
To the Dems, Trump must be stopped at all costs. Or else he’ll persecute the opposition, throw civil rights activists in jail, make racism public policy, and maybe kick off WW3. Luckily for us, none of that has happened yet, right?
Their impassioned blindness guides the spectacle of Trump’s legal battles, blurring the lines between truth and imagination so thoroughly that separating fact from fiction might just break reality.
One might be tempted to call Trump’s trials and tribulations ‘Kafkaesque’—conjuring images of shadowy practices and obscure plots. But, outside the feverish dreams of E. Jean Carroll, there’s nothing Kafkaesque about them.
There’s no grand mystery to unpack, where assigning purpose, reason, or benefit becomes an impossible task. Everything is laid out plainly.
From public attorneys voted into office with clear mandates to target Trump, to judges who can barely conceal their scorn for him—there are no dizzying mazes to get lost in here. The bureaucrats running the show lack even the wicked dignity of remaining faceless. They campaigned for it, they voted for it, plastered it all over the billboards, and made sure everyone paid up.
It speaks to a very cynical perversion of the democratic ideals they ostensibly hold dear… [Continue reading]
