Wasserman writes: "Donald Trump is no accident. He is our Imperial Vulture come home to roost. Our Exceptional karma. The ultimate incineration of a City on a Hill defined by arrogance, brutality, and greed."
U.S. president Donald Trump arrives to lead the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on Tuesday. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Trump Is No Accident
29 May 20
God wills that [the Civil War] continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman�s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword.� Abraham Lincoln�s Second Inaugural, March 4, 1865
(He was dead 41 days later.)
onald Trump is no accident.�
He is our Imperial Vulture come home to roost. Our Exceptional Karma. The ultimate incineration of a City on a Hill defined by arrogance, brutality, and greed.�
Trump�s willful negligence has killed more Americans in three months than did the Vietnam War in ten years.�
He�s saturated our lives with dictatorship, disease, dementia, depression.�
But we have no claim to self-pity.�
Pinochet (Chile), Mobutu (Congo/Zaire), the Greek Junta, the Shah (Iran), Somoza (Nicaragua), Diem/Thieu/Ky (Vietnam), Yeltsin/Putin (Russia), Pol Pot (Cambodia), Lord Jeffrey Amherst (Indigenous America), Salazar (Portugal), Marcos (the Philippines), Alvarado (Honduras), the Duvaliers (Haiti) � murderers, thieves, despots, liars, bigots, buffoons, puppets, thugs, butchers, hypocrites, clowns, torturers, mobsters, devils incarnate � all installed to serve American corporate interests.�
They are Trump and he is them.�
The butchery we�ve imposed on humankind and the planet has at last come home to roost. Trump is Earth�s retaliatory demon, here to ravage the remnants of a cruel, hypocritical, dying empire.�
China will soon eclipse America�s once insurmountable economic dominance. Our military is an ornate, obsolete, obscene husk. We�re a downbound #2, a failing state. Trump has left us gutted, poisoned, betrayed, mocked, abused, leveled, trashed, choking in the dust (we can�t breathe!!!).�
He is history�s inevitable payback.
We can�t get him gone until we fully face our nation�s stake in his epic evil.�
So let�s pick a moment before November 3rd. A Trump Exorcism Day, to excoriate the pain our empire has imposed. The arrogance of our �exceptionalism.� The burden of our slave-based misogyny. The injustices of our racism, sexism, ecological destruction, multi-layered bigotries. The wages of our greed. The uselessness of our wars. The absurdity of our military. The blood-sucking death grip of our global corporations.�
Wrap them all in one big irreverence. Look deep into the ghastly mirror of our merciless inflictions � then face who we really have been, and what we must become.�
The Donald is no random event. He demands we confront where he really came from and all he embodies.�
Only then do we get truly woke.�
The completion of Harvey �Sluggo� Wasserman�s People�s Spiral of US History awaits Trump�s departure.�
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