Today’s Boston Globe includes an article titled, “Who will
stand up to Donald Trump?” The author of the piece chronicles the many times
Trump has bullied his critics on Twitter and in speeches in recent weeks, and
notes the lack of backbone shown by the mainstream press, congressional
Republicans and, of course, his inner circle of sycophants. Will anyone stand
up to Trump, wonders the author?
This is actually a complex and subversive question. It chills
me to the bone to read an article in one of America’s premier mainstream
newspapers calling for someone, anyone, to give our bully President-elect a
beat down. And yet here we are as a country, seemingly helpless against the
dangerous loud-mouthed fraud who scammed the system to become President.
The question of who will stand up to Trump becomes
subversive when you consider its scope. If all legal means of keeping Trump out
of the White House are exhausted, who can
stand up to Trump? Even if a large number of American people rise up en masse
against his administration, Trump will always claim he was legitimately elected
President, which is technically true (at this point), and he will never
voluntarily step down.
The only scenarios I see for rescuing America from President
Trump are that he’s convicted of a federal crime or impeached with the help of
the less crazy Republicans in Congress. But neither of these storylines has a
happy ending, because getting rid of Trump means helping religious lunatic Mike
Pence become our Commander in Chief. So we’d be trading a narcissistic bully
for a fanatical Christian. It’s a lose/lose situation.
I was always taught that nobody likes a bully, but that was
obviously a fairy tale because a whole lot of Americans just voted for one.
Thanks to our poorly educated, racist, reactionary friends and neighbors, we
have boxed ourselves into a corner that will be almost impossible to get out
of. Hard as it is to believe, standing up to Trump and forcing him from office
might be worse than keeping him in.
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