Al Capone in the White House

Remember the character of Al Capone as depicted in the film, The Untouchables?

That's the guy the Electoral College - absolutely not the American voters - put into the White House in 2016, with a lot of help, per the entire US intelligence community, from Vladimir Putin.

Not an authoritarian or even populist politician, really. Just a psychotic, narcissistic thug.

Alligators and snakes in a moat at a wall along the Mexican border.

Glass blades at the top to lacerate the flesh of people trying to climb over.

Border guards instructed to shoot to kill, or at least maim, desperate migrants crossing unauthorized.

Withholding half a billion in aid to Ukraine, intended by Congress to help them resist aggression by Putin's Russia.

Making it abundantly clear to Ukraine's president, in a phone call Mike Pompeo was on and an aide of Mike Pence was on, that if he wants that money he had better dig up dirt on Joe Biden's son for Trump's 2020 campaign.

Using Pence, Pompeo, and Barr to solicit from foreign governments aid in casting mountains of discredit on the idea Russia did anything to aid Trump's 2016 campaign and would aid or is aiding his 2020 campaign.

Denouncing the unknown whistle blower as a spy and demanding he be outed and punished as spies once were, by the death penalty.

Denouncing Adam Schiff, dubbed "Shifty Schiff", as a liar and a traitor who ought to be forced to resign.

If I were not an atheist I would be praying, nightly, for his happy death.

Like Big Al in The Untouchables, he lies, he glories in a sycophantic section of the press that loves him, he spreads the disease of political corruption all around him.

If you have been watching the news these last few days and have not seen this, there is something very wrong with you.

Perhaps you are a Trumpist.

Update.

All of this was made possible by the idiotic excess of democracy that passed the power to choose their candidates from the party professional pols to the primary voters and caucus going activists.

Trump is proof that the process is too democratic.

A lesson everyone has absolutely refused to learn.