HOW MUCH LONGER?

Our country, this great country known as America has had its up and downs. After all, those of us who live and govern this place are human beings, with all of the foibles attached to humanity.

I could go back in history and make a long list of our failings, but I am not going to do so.  Instead I am going to focus on our current embarrassment.  The man who started off as a joke and has proved a reader of mine, correct when many months ago in response to a clown car article of min correct, when she wrote that she could not be amused, since she found him to be dangerous.

His 3 latest episodes are for me his most dangerous and despicable so far.

At a rally over the weekend, he was being heckled, his response was not what politicians do, which is to either ignore or engage the person or persons.

Instead he instructed whom? The crowd? His bodyguards? to “get him out of here”

The resulting fracas saw the lone heckler on the ground being manhandled and kicked by Trump’s supporters as he continued to rile up the crowd.

This behavior is from a man who wants to be our President.

His second and even more despicable act occurred when he told a crowd that he saw “thousands of people” celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center. He watched from NYC as this happened in Jersey City.  As of last night, no news outlet or person (Carson agreed and then retracted) has corroborated his absolutely disgusting lie. 

I lived through 911.  I watched TV almost 24 hours per day, starting moments after I received a chat message that ‘a plane had hit the WTC’.  My response based on the assumption that it was a 2-seater was ‘where did he buy his license’.  There is no footage of people celebrating.  It did not happen.  It occurred here only in the mind of Trump who feels he has not done enough damage to us and to our country.  He wants and needs to continue to stomp on us while we are down.

The only celebration shown at the time was in the West Bank.

As I write this column, no member of the Republican Party has said, No that is not true. Christie as governor of N.J. responded with "I do not remember that, and so it's not something that was part of my recollection. I think if it had happened, I would remember it, but, you know, there could be things I forget, too."  Governor Christie does not remember because it did not happen.

Not having created a big enough furor, he then re-tweeted a chart of murder statistics, when it was brought to his attention that the data is incorrect, he left the tweet up for his rabid followers to see, since the numbers support his narrative.

And so I ask of the leadership of the GOP and the RNC, how much longer are you going to allow this man to desecrate what is left of the party of Lincoln? Your lack of actions leading up the 2008 election, which should have been an attempt to control the Tea Party, now has your party on a death march and your decision to say no to any of President Obama’s policies and your inherent disdain for the poor is responsible for Trump’s rise.  The people, who love him, hate you.  The people who love him are the ones who lost the most when your love for Wall Street allowed the banks to bring our economy to the brink of a recession.

And now we are all paying for your bad decisions, and you are watching a fear mongering racist billionaire tear your party apart.  And none of you have the nerve to stand up and say to him, “we have had enough of you”.  In case you have forgotten, let me remind you, this is America, he cannot throw you into a dungeon and toss the key into a sewer.  He cannot confiscate your money; he cannot take away your jobs.

For today, you have only one job. That job is to take back your party, kick Donald Trump to the curb.  You created the monster, shut it down before it shuts you and our country down.