Earlier this week, someone I follow on Twitter posted about Ivanka Trump's aspirations to be President. Below is a screen shot of that tweet and my response.
I feel giddy with the rush of new found notoriety!
But let's unpack some stuff relating to this thought.
The idea that Ivanka thinks she could be a future President of the United States seems delusional.
But then the idea that Donald Trump could be President of the United States seems delusional but damn if the living nightmare of the last four years tells us different. So maybe we can't dismiss President Ivanka Trump as insane.
I mean, yes, the very idea of President Ivanka Trump IS insane but it doesn't mean it couldn't be a reality.
And consider this: what if a Trump made it back to the White House who wasn't a bat shit crazy old dude with dementia?
What if a lot of voters who held their nose to vote for Joe Biden because they had it up to here with Li'l Donnie's crazy antics had a slightly less crazy Trump option to choose from?
But what if that slightly less crazy Trump option was a vacuous empty shell of a person easily manipulated by those with aggressive fascist agendas (looking at Stephen Miller) that were carried out from behind a smiling pretty face with a "sensible" demeanor?
If the last four years have taught us anything, it's that just because something may seem like it's insane doesn't mean that it can't come true.
Ivanka's political ponderings do suggest that at apple of self-delusion does not fall from the tree. Ivanka and others in the Trump family seem to think they are part of some political dynasty, that Donald Trump being President opens the doors for others in the family to seek political office.
Li'l Donnie's daughter in law Laura Trump is hinting around at running for a US Senate seat here in North Carolina. My God! Have we not suffered enough?
Donald Jr seems to think he's got his father's mojo for politics. Sorry, Junior, that's just the cocaine talking.
The big little man himself is still mired in his own self delusion. Even as state after state certifies the votes in each state where Joe Biden won, Donald Trump snarls and barks that the election was rigged, it was a fraud and that he really won and by a lot.
And he's spending a lot of time on Twitter spouting invectives against anyone who doesn't believe in his world view. Even the Republican governor of Georgia has been the target of Trump's ire after the state certified the vote (after a recount) and officially declared Joe Biden the winner.
Gov. Kemp has made a political career fighting the bogeyman of voter fraud so if anyone is in Trump's corner to find something somewhere that is somehow wrong, Kemp would be the one to find it. Instead, Kemp has numbers in front him that tell him an inescapable truth that differs from Donald Trump's self delusion.
I say "self delusion" but it is a delusion shared by others. Trump's allies in Congress still have one last trick up their sleeve.
- The Electoral College casts the official vote for president on December 14th.
- On January 6th, Congress certifies the results.
- Federal law gives individual members of the House and Senate the power to challenge the results from the floor.
Republicans are considering such actions at this time.
To be fair, House Democrats have previously tried and failed to challenge GOP presidencies in 2001 and 2017. But these actions were predicated on Al Gore and Hillary Clinton winning the national popular vote but losing the Electoral College.
In this case, Donald Trump is down in both the Electoral College and the popular vote. The only basis for such a challenge is perpetuation of Trump's unsupported accusations of fraud, charges that have been refuted by every court where Trump has mounted a legal challenge.
That will not stop GOP congress persons who are still loyal to Donald Trump from trying yet again to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
For everyone who gave a sigh of relief on November 7th when the news networks called their projections for Joe Biden as the winner, it's still too early to relax.
Even when the Electoral College casts the official vote for Joe Biden as president on December 14th, it will still be too early to relax.
Even on January 6th when Congress certifies the results that Joe Biden is the President, we will not be able to relax.
What about January 20th when Joe Biden is inaugurated? Can we relax then? Probably not. Trump will continue to sew chaos and reap an electorate convinced he was cheated out of his second term and a base of Republican representatives and senators still too scared of that enraged electorate.
The delusions of Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump and all his family may be insane. But Donald Trump has an uncanny ability to make his delusions real.
We can never relax when that insanity can manifest itself in the real world.
Delusion or threat? We must always be vigilant lest delusion becomes the threat.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Pearl S. Buck
Vigilance. That is the price we have to continually pay.
Jean Luc Picard
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