Trump After Trump

 

Wouldn’t it be artful irony, or even karmic revenge, if in the next four years Trump with his ubiquitous presence, memory, or as they say, his “antics”, would continue to reside in the inert wakefulness of all those who deride and loathe him?  Enjoying free and permanent lease inside their heads?  Though he typically wastes no time in responding to any criticism leveled at him, we know Trump has been masterful taking such unkind offerings in good stride.

It seems only fair for this to ensue.  After all the four years of the Trump presidency have been characterized by the numerous and incessant gauntlets thrown at him by his rabid opposition from all directions.  And not a single one stuck to convict him.

And no doubt whoever sits in the throne, the next four years will be one big truckload of daunting challenges from the resistant pandemic to the manifold global economic challenges. And at this stage, there is no discernible daylight at the end of the tunnel. Never mind the growing threats of bellicose intervention coming from the great powers. Failure therefore will be one calculated reality having a rightful place in any negotiating table, for those seated around it and tasked with the tough decisions to be made.

As we speak, even as they incessantly declare that Trump is in the dismal clutches of ignominious rebuffs on many legal fronts, he still is their main focus of criticism and derision, sparing no ink and paper in critique of a supposed gnat.  They seem not able to get enough of him.  And we know too well, how it is when thinking ill of another is one’s main preoccupation.  He who promotes it will likely suffer more than the target.  Such indignation will gnaw and eat away at the very core of those who promote them for a living.

And Trump, now emboldened by the solid following of half of the electorate will no doubt take chockfull advantage of that privilege.  Remember when he started his political life, even his own declared party did not accept him.  Even those who were socially allied disowned him.  This and what he had collectively accomplished prior to this debilitating pandemic, will no doubt accrue in his favor, giving him a sterling legacy to leave behind.  And overall, we no doubt will see that history will be kinder to this man.  It cannot be any other, given the facts as historical bases. It will be a depiction more reasonable and fair than what his many detractors are attributing to him now.

And in passing, we know they are all against Trump and whatever he was done.  Yet this late, we are still not seeing or knowing what exactly do they stand for.  Other than the lifelong devotion to the many narrow vested interests the unholy alliances of the cadre of oligarchs, tech elites, media pundits, even socialist anarchists, etc. are committed to and for which the public undoubtedly do not really care for or about.  Or if they do, they do not redound to any desirable benefit for them. The reason then, nobody is articulating what they stand for in terms of actual beneficial programs for the collective? 

And they have piously limited themselves to making motherhood statements about the good and welfare of the country, people, and politics.  All, white-wash paint sprayed on sepulchers!  Pregnant with verbosity, but very lean on actionable programs that could work.

Anyhow, all this will also pass into history, stowed in the past which will be forgotten by present generations.  But there will always be that hardy band of serious historians in the future who will exhume all this, if only to highlight the recidivist nature of man.  This 2020 election for all the hoopla it has generated will be most remembered for the massive and pervasive voter/electoral frauds inflicted on an aging system ripe for scavenging and/or collapse.  Unfortunately, the search for truth was not that sharp and keen to a languid generation weaned on instant gratification and satisfaction.  So let the sunlight shine another day!