We have clearly entered a period in American politics that is a combination of Alice in Wonderland and Dante’s Inferno. Alice in Wonderland because nothing makes sense anymore and, frankly, Trump’s Cabinet picks look like a whose who from the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party! The period resembles Dante’s Inferno because we are just descending deeper and deeper into hell.
The craziness that has infected this administration is astounding. Trump has threatened to strip Rosie O’Donnell of her U.S. citizenship and called her a “Threat to Humanity” while at the same time, the DOJ under Trump sycophantic Attorney General, Pam Bondi, directed Trump’s former personal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, who now conveniently works for the DOJ, to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, a woman convicted of sex trafficking young women and girls for Jeffrey Epstein, and then mysteriously moves her to ‘Club Fed’ a minimum security prison in Texas.
The only thing Rosie O’Donnell did was to speak her mind, a Constitutionally protected right, but it bruised Trump’s ego in the process. Maxwell committed real crimes that affected and continue to affect real people. So, who exactly is the ‘threat to humanity’? Clearly Maxwell, but she will likely not say anything that will incriminate Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid lifestyle or bruise Trump’s tender ego, so if I were a betting man, I’d bet she will ultimately get herself a pardon.
Trump has claimed that immigrants are a huge threat to the security of this country and has embarked on a campaign, at the urging of Stehen Miller, to deport millions of people, the majority of whom have committed no serious crimes, are working at jobs most Americans don’t want to do and paying taxes. And yet, he pardoned the majority of the people engaged in the Jan. 6th insurrection which was essentially a coup. Not only that, but gun violence is also now the leading cause of death for children in this country. Who commits the majority of these shootings that kill our kids – U.S. citizens! It’s absolutely out of Alice in Wonderland, the facts point one way and this administration just does something completely based upon smoke and mirrors.
Trump, with the help of his sycophantic circus is trying to rewrite history to prove the Russian interference in our elections which ultimately benefited Trump was a ‘hoax,’ despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. He is hell bent on prosecuting his political enemies on made up BS, despite the fact that he is the only convicted felon to sit in the Oval Office. The gerrymandering that is going on in Texas is making a mockery of the word ‘democracy’. The disinformation coming out of Trump and this entire administration sometimes makes ‘Wonderland’ where Alice spent time seem like an absolutely sane place.
Dante eventually found his way out of hell. Alice eventually found her way out of Wonderland. Will we ever find our way out of MAGA land?
