TRUMP : Having Nothing To Do With Savageness
‘We’ve never had an empty seat and we certainly won’t in Oklahoma.’ — Donald Trump
The BOK Stadium in Tulsa, Oklahoma stood half-empty during a rally to launch Donald Trump’s re-election campaign yesterday.
The most personally gratifying part of which, for me, was when CNN live-streamed the deconstruction of an elaborate, outside, overflow stage, where the President was scheduled to speak — I could visualize him pacing angrily backstage, threatening to fire everyone but his spray-tanning intern.
I knew then, that Trump 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale knew, that he was about to become another sacrificial lamb in a mass grave of Trump administration incompetence.
It would be easy to dismiss this outcome as a result of fear surrounding the coronavirus and I’d say that is true to some extent, but, let’s face Donald’s reality for a moment and admit that real-American’s, as Trump likes to refer to his flock, would never let a deadly disease stand in the way of seeing up-close, their television star turned POTUS .
I’d suggest that the less obvious story to come out of Tulsa yesterday, is the re-election threatening, political miscalculation that was made by Trump and his team.
As news anchor Joy Reid pointed out just before the rally began, until recently, the majority of black people had no explicit bias against Trump. Unless you lived in New York City in the 1980's, you likely saw Donald as a television star, and self-made master of the deal he purports to be.
Yet, as the protests in this country, and around the world, began to pick up and sustain their respective steam — when the culture war spilled into the streets, Trump decided the racists were his best chance at four more years.
Now, I say that Donald J. Trump is no more a racist than the next white guy who was born-rich under the Truman administration. He is much more so a charlatan, a carpet-bagger and carnival-barker who chose Oklahoma for his rally (a State he is set to win in November, by nearly twenty percentage points over Joe Biden) to simply and lazily, stack the deck for himself.
His attempt to signal to the country that he was adored by the masses, instead only showcased a man more concerned about being loved then the lives of those of whom are indoctrinated enough to love him.
Yesterday, the people of Tulsa, and surrounding communities, proved to me that he chose wrong. To put it into language Trump would understand, his golf putt was way too short and far to the right.
I woke up this morning feeling hopeful that these people, the Trump loyalists, aren’t 50% of the country as Donald and the Republican National Committee would manipulate polls to have you believe, but rather that the jig is up; the plot has been foiled, for the 45th President of these United States. And that the self-proclaimed descendants of the confederacy and their lingering idealism that makes a man three-fifth’s of another, is, while still not yet dead, never coming off the respirator.
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Thank you for taking the time to read this. If you are legally permitted to vote in November, vote for the other guy, please. If your voting rights have been taken from you, do a google search on how to get them reinstated. Whomever you are, if you were born stateside or have waded through the bureaucracy of achieving citizenship, this is your country too.
