Now that Trump's handpicked attorney general has jammed a stick into the wheels of justice and temporarily made Donald Trump a non-collaborator with Russia, Trump's status has moved back to mere useful idiot.
That term is exactly what it sounds like and Trump is an example par excellence of the sub-species. He is obviously an idiot and he has been a very useful one for at least three entities – the last one perhaps leading to his demise as president.
If we take Bill Barr's book report on Bob Mueller's report, Trump his own bad self didn't collaborate with Russia in its apparently monumentally successful efforts to put him in office. And, as much as he hates even the taste of the idea that Russia helped him, he nonetheless kisses Vladimir Putin's ass like it was two scoops of ice cream.
Putin will doubtless be regarded in espionage history as the legend who was able to inflict vast damage on an avowed enemy by just putting a fool in office and then sitting back and watching a natural-born, organic Manchurian Candidate do in two short years what all the intelligence apparatus hadn't even contemplated in their wildest dancing Kremlin dreams. A useful idiot is even more so when he has an instinctive chaotic wrecking ball mentality. Just wind him up and watch the government reel.
And Trump has also been an extremely useful idiot for the one percent who run him, even if he thinks its the other way around. His tax cut was a reflexive give-away to the sleek tanned faces who gorge and gander at Mar A Lago, as well as to their shadowy brethren who pull the silent strings on their idiot-puppet.
Trump is well aware of how useful he has been to them – and himself – to the point that after the tax bill was passed, he tore-ass to Florida to strut around his dining room, boasting to the assembled swine: “I just made you guys a lot richer.” A useful idiot doesn't have to be totally stupid.
And, now, Trump is about to become the Democratic Party's extremely useful idiot, to put a political gun to his own hairy temple. He wants to shut down Obamacare – boom! – just like that with no alternative on Trump's tiny horizon.
This dude just got his ass kicked in the mid-terms as much on the issue of health care as anything and now he wants to suddenly eighty-six the Affordable Care Act. Does he not realize somewhere in his clouded brain that many, many of his “base” have the dreaded pre-existing conditions that Obamacare covers? Trump promised loud and long that pre-existing conditions would be forever covered. They'd be gone yesterday if he could do it. (Putin must love this.)
He wants to put untold millions of Americans adrift in the swarming shark seas of health care chaos with no shores in sight and no lifeboats.
Is that not handing any thinking Democrat a ready-made target that will resonate all the way to November, 2020? And any thinking Republican must be cringing at Trump's wild-hair idea. Especially when he is now crowning the party as “the Party of Health Care.”
It's sure not the party of Special Olympics.
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