If You Can’t See Where This is Going, You’ve Got Blinders On

The latest of so many astounding ploys by the Trumpster is to start to warn his followers that ONLY if he loses the general election it will be rigged. So after all of his BS about birthers, the Khan family, a lie about something an hour, why does this have me so upset?

Because it’s the perfect setup.

If he wins, it’s back to the Middle Ages for this country; no matter what you think about the Republican Establishment, there will be a bloodbath and purge against anyone who questioned him (so Christie will will be bobbing along in the bath like the rubber duck he is); forget the Supreme Court and any confidence our allies have in us; forget any progress on gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights.

He’s gained a following by pandering to his follower’s basest fears and instincts, and he will keep doing that as President.

But what happens if he loses?? That’s the brilliant part of this. All of a sudden, he’s proven to his followers everything he’s been saying all along. His paranoia is their paranoia, and that means that the 41% (as of this morning’s polls anyway http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster) of the voting public will probably be convinced that the election was stolen from him. He promised riots in the streets of Cleveland if he didn’t get the nomination. What will he promise if he loses in November?

I think that his supporters will take his tacit approval and take to the streets in the short term. I think he will have rallies against the election results, challenge them in court, and do everything he can to create an environment where this country can’t function unless he’s at the top of of it.

So either way he wins. I don’t think he cares about being President, he only wants to be the center of attention. If he’s elected he gets what he wants, if he loses he gets what he wants.

Given the way the government has been functioning, I couldn’t see any way it could get worse, I was wrong.

Thus endeth the rant.