Back before I had my own personal “Come to Jesus” moment while in federal prison, my thinking was amazingly similar to that of the biggest conman of all time, our soon-to-be ex-president. You wouldn’t have liked me back then because my thinking was so arrogant, selfish, churlish — and devious to boot. I was in constant survival mode.
Since I once thought like him, I’m pretty sure I know what ’ol Orangeface is going to do in the near future, and probably for a long time to come. It’s really not all that hard to figure out or predict.
First, you have to comprehend why he won’t (and never will) concede: he can’t, not if he wants to hold on to his core base. If he never concedes, never surrenders, then he can exhort — actually demand — that his base to stay as strong as he is pretending to be.
In that manner he keeps them loyal and thereby retains his power over them. This, of course, makes other Republicans quake in their boots since they have to wait to see if tRump maintains his iron grip long-term on those 70 million citizens that voted for him. For now, they’re all going to stay right in line.
The fact that tRump was out playing golf when the news broke that Biden was the president-elect demonstrates another aspect of his personality: bluffing. He’s playing golf to show the world how little he is concerned over the recent news, but it’s all part of his act. He scared, really scared.
While there is an outside chance that tRump fades quickly from the national and international stage, he knows that if quickly connects back to his faithful he can keep them that way. While in his head he really doesn’t think he lost, he knows the courts are probably not going to agree with him, and when they don’t, he’ll make them whipping boys (and girls) too, all in on the conspiracy against him.
He’ll make enemies out of anyone he thinks the crowd will respond to, because that’s what he’s soon going to be doing. The one thing that he truly loves beyond all else (including playing golf) is to mount stages at superspreader events all across the country. He might host two or three rallies per week if people turn out like he expects them to and probably will, since now they have a real axe to grind.
Mass events will be his new (and perhaps permanent) gig. He could easily spend the rest of his days on this planet traveling from city to city, like a bedraggled carnival barker, preaching his message of hate and division to millions of eager ears. And in all likelihood his cult will flourish.
He’ll never have to offer his crowds any proof that the election was rigged and stolen simply because they’ll never demand (or expect) any. His word is good enough for them. Of course hosting events of this kind simply to feed the besotted masses more garbage (which they eat just like a horse eats oats) is dangerous to the republic. The gatherings will only serve to keep the hatred pot boiling, but that’s exactly what tRump is going to design them to do.
Believe me, there are some on the hardcore right who would just as soon burn this motherfucker down if they can’t totally control it. For the next few months or perhaps years, we have to stay on high alert, forever vigilant since there are some people out there, and a lot of them, whose only version of saving “their” republic includes excluding others from the rights promised to us under the Constitution.
Soon some of these MAGAs might start calling us vile names — such as vermin — which will give them justification (at least in their minds) to exterminate us. The hatred in America, at least in the short term, is going to increase incrementally, perhaps to dramatically high levels if tRump has his way — and he’s going to.
While some of us are thinking about how to make ours a stronger, fairer, more just Union, we have to recognize there are others in the land solely focused on dis-union. What else do you expect from people so dumb that whenever a few of them are forced to wear a mask they poke holes in them, because they say that makes it easier for them to breathe? Yeah, some of them are that dumb.
At the end of these events there even might be beautiful, scantily clad young, nubile blonde teenagers circulating through the crowd, trays in hand, as they pass out the mandatory doses of prescription-strength, mind-altering Kool-Aid. And guess what? Many of these twisted, demented followers are going to lap up every last drop — and then beg for more.
From CoolCleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author at http://NeighborhoodSolutionsIn