by Jeff Childers
On Sunday, Politico ran the longest and most hyperbolic corporate media news story I have ever seen. It was a monumental joint effort by four Politico reporters (and apparently no editors), headlined “The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway.” It was ten times worse than you can possible imagine, and I bet at this point you can imagine a lot.
Just in time for Halloween, horror novelist Steven King could not have written a more hair-raising story than did Politico’s terrified reporters, who clearly believe that Donald Trump enjoys vast, unstoppable supervillain powers. He can wrap public opinion around his little finger, order Republican officials across the land to do his bidding, unleash hundreds of lawsuits with a whispered command, and leap Trump Tower in a single bound. Or something.
They didn’t forget Trump’s False Prophet Elon Musk, whose name was often mentioned in the story, but always with the sinister epithet “misinformation” lurking just around the rhetorical corner.
Civil unrest and the prospect of violence hung darkly over the piece, just like that cloud of chlorine gas hanging over Conyers, Georgia. More post-apocalyptic novel than news, the writers fantastically imagined innocent, well-meaning Democrat officials heroically holding back the orc-like forces of Republican darkness but, in the end, succumbing to an anarchical mob. No wait, a fascistic mob.
The fact that only two assassination attempts were made against President Trump by rabid, Trump-deranged Democrats was mentioned only once in the short novel, and even then, only parenthetically. (“Political violence,” the reporters primly informed us betwixt their delicate parenthesis, “can cut both ways.” Then it went right back to rooting out all the vile prospects of violence on the right.)
The tediously overstretched article’s hysterical conclusion betrayed the real object of the authors’ anxiety: the prospect of Republicans doing well at the polls:
What will happen to these reporters’ delicate emotions if Trump does win conclusively? Over the last eight years, for their entire adult lives, they’ve dined only at the Trump Derangement dinner table. A Trump victory would, to them, be impossible, unacceptable, and unendurable, occupying the same hopeless category as their apocalyptic fears of Earth’s final destruction by climate change, always lurking just over the horizon, always about four years off.
The idea of Trump back in the White House is simply too much for them to bear. Articles like Politico’s political horror movie script evidence a swelling sense of foreboding. Let’s see if we can figure out what’s causing it.
Praying their nightmares do come true………Trump wins in a landslide of epic proportions.
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