Trumped

I’ve been more gripped by the US elections than the NZ ones, as there’s far more at stake than our little corner of the World. It’s crunch time for the current push to establish a new far-right, populist style of politics. A stark choice between accepting or rejecting the breakdown of democracy and reality.

I can understand blue-collar Americans, suffering the hangover of globalisation, letting their fear and anger fall for the lies and false promises offered by Trump once, but to fall for it a second time would be unforgivable; they’d had to willingly choose to ignore the past 4 years of a President stoking civil unrest and racial prejudice, gaslighting its own people and dumbing down politics to the level of a reality TV show.

Although the final whistle is yet to blow it’s becoming more certain that Biden is going to cross the finishing line, as the democrats have been mailing in their ballots rather than visiting the polling booths so the late counting states are leaning towards turning blue.

The key new story that’s getting me excited is that the Republicans, like the Roman senators around Caesar, are sharpening their knives ready to dispatch the Tango Bullshitter. When Karl Rove issues a statement criticising his leader you know they’ve smelt what’s cookin’ (TM The Rock) and getting ready to sacrifice their tiny-handed orange tweetmonkey at the first opportunity.

The question now is how long Trump will drag things out before he finally concedes, and whether the Democrat win is large enough to avoid having to make a deal to give him immunity from prosecution. Because Trump’s biggest fear will be once he loses his protection all the corruption will start coming to the surface and he’ll be joining most of his previous advisers behind bars. Maybe Jeffrey Epstein’s cell is still free? Wherever, at least we know Orange is his favourite colour…