Happy – and Unhappy – 100th

Dang! This will be the 100^th Civic Duty column I’ve written. I clock the total at about 50,000 words, which would make at least a small novel. Still, you couldn’t write a novel about this sham Trump presidency because nobody would believe it. It’s like a dystopian tale of all that is dark and heretofore mostly hidden of the American soul come to leering and so far unstoppable life. At least one Trumpian horror unfolds every day.

So, on this major anniversary of Civic Duty, I am unhappy that there is still a need for these screeds. And probably there will be an increasing need because this jowly-faced, baggy-eyed criminal is getting comfy in his terrorizing of what he obviously considers his own personal fiefdom, which is America. He is remaking his cabinet into a nest of totally corrupt vipers whose main interest is in taking America to the cleaners any way they can think of – and these are some very blatantly creative snakes when it comes to using their positions to line their pockets and those of their greed-infested peers.

Here’s the way I see the future: Robert Mueller – please don’t call him “Bob” unless you know him personally – might very well come up with a whole arsenal of smoking presidential guns of obstruction of justice or collusion , but so what? It will then be up to our esteemed Congress to impeach and try Trump for the so-called high crimes and misdemeanors of the Constitution, but that craven Republican-controlled body probably won’t even let it get that far. It is amazing how little patriotism or even plain moral decency exists in today’s Republican party. Pushing their brutal, anti-people agenda and getting re-elected are their only priorities, and if it means forever kissing Trump’s fat ass, so be it. The common good? Ha! You kidding?

Or maybe the whole dismal Stormy Daniels affair will again lead to a case for impeachment. Sorry, but same Republican result.

Then Trump might fire Mueller, leading to a constitutional crisis – which nobody seems to really have a definition for -- which will be bulldozed by either the Repub congress or the stacked Supreme Court. Result: Trump stays.

Happy 100^th notes: so far, this is the year of protest, of taking to the streets by kids, teachers, and the survivors of black homicide by cop, as well as just plain folks who care deeply about America. A lot of people are fed up. Again, so what? So this: these fed up people are going to vote. Only 55% of eligible voters voted in November. That is going to change and these new and in many cases ex-Trump voters are going to make it a Democratic House of Representatives in November and that just might be enough clear handwriting on the walls of congress to cause a significant change in Republican thinking in the Senate, if only out of self-preservation, to tie a tin can to the rat’s tail of Trump and all the small-minded nastiness and racist and misogynist nationalism he and his creepy ilk stand for.

Then I will write my last Civic Duty column in delirious happiness.