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The Normalization of Donald Trump






…And now for something completely different. We are now seeing the complete amnesia that comes over the press and the Congress from time to time. They happened to conveniently forget that George W Bush was the last Republican President, and kept invoking Ronald Reagan. And then they forgot that eight years ago, the economy was on the brink of collapse. They forgot that Bill Clinton left office in 2000 with a huge surplus that was turned into a deficit. And they forgot that Al Gore did indeed win the Popular Vote in 2000. Another fact that will be glossed over in the annals of GOP and Trump world. Hillary will win the Popular vote by perhaps a million votes over Trump. Yet she will not serve as President.

 So off we go. Meaning that the media will blithely and bravely follow this guy off the bridge and we must not let the normalization of Donald Trump continue. He must be called into account for a) The 12 + women who have charged him with sexual misconduct; b) The Trump University case hanging over him where many people were scammed out of their savings by Trump; c) The fact he never disclosed his taxes and could be hiding shady business deals with criminal elements in Russia and other places; d) The fact that we learned through the course of the campaign the man is a serial liar and braggart and is totally unstable; e) From an early age, he & his father Fred Trump (see my earlier piece), were sued by the Justice Department for discrimination against minorities back in the 70's.

 This is not a normal candidate, and no matter how many times people try to speak soothingly of Kumbaya, this is not someone who can be given a pass. Not for a minute should the opposition take their eyes from this man and his circumspect dealings. No matter how hard some elements of the media and the right wing try, there is no case for bringing about the normalization of Trump.
 "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King
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