Damn Them All

Following the latest heinous assault on the truth and decency by neo- fascist dumbass Donald "Rump" Trump, Charles P. Pierce expresses his feelings, and ours, about those who would support or enable this clown with his suicide plan for American democracy:

Damn the delegates who will vote for this man. Damn the professional politicians who will fall in line behind him or, worse, will sit back and hope this all blows over so the Republican Party once again will be able to relegate the poison this man has unleashed to the backwaters of the modern conservative intellectual mainstream, which is where it has been useful for over four decades. Damn the four hopeless sycophants who want to share a stage with him for four months. Damn all the people who will come here and speak on his behalf. Damn all the thoughtful folk who plumb his natural appeal for anything deeper than pure hatred. 

Damn all the people who will vote for him, and damn any progressives who sit this one out because Hillary Rodham Clinton is wrong on this issue or that one. Damn all the people who are suggesting they do that. And damn all members of the media who treat this dangerous fluke of a campaign as being in any way business as usual. Any support for He, Trump is, at this point, an act of moral cowardice. Anyone who supports him, or runs with him, or enables his victory, or even speaks well of him, is a traitor to the American idea.

He's not "normal" in any way, shape or form. He's a distillation of all the evil that exists in the dark politics of division, whether it's here or in Europe or the Middle East or anywhere else on the globe. He's a race baiter and a Latino baiter and a religion baiter and an LGBT baiter and on and on.  He's a cheat and a pathological liar.  He's an unstable con artist who's unfit to come anywhere near the Oval Office or the nuclear launch codes.  He's a terrible menace to American democracy and to peace and stability in the world.  He'd be a godsend to Vladimir "Vlad the Invader" Putin and to ISIS recruiting. 

So that's our mini- rant...  and, yes, damn him and anyone who would enable or support him, directly or indirectly.