The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

I thought I’d seen the bottom of the political pickle barrel with Nixon and the Watergate revelations, a President and his henchmen breaking into the opposition’s headquarters, then covering it up.  Nixon, crook that he was, was shamed into leaving office before he was impeached and convicted.  Eventually even the GOP cut him loose, convincing him he could go out on two feet or be dragged out by his nose.  Tricky Dick didn’t need a Weatherman to see which way the hurricane was blowing.

The January 6 hearings are slowly unraveling the plot to overturn the government, something Nixon would never have considered.  He just wanted to use dirty tricks to win, not conspire in a coup and a takeover.  Donald J. Trump is no Nixon.  Donald J. Trump is a criminal.  Piece by piece, the witch hunters have found their sorceress and uncovered his evil scheme.  When he heard that the mob he directed toward the Capitol was threatening to hang Mike Pence, he merely shrugged, suggesting that maybe that was what his VP deserved.  Ponder that a minute or 60.  The President of the United States unconcerned that a riotous mob might actually lynch Mike Pence, Vice President.  Maybe exactly what he deserved.  Roll that around on your tongue awhile.  Then consider what he told his second in command a few hours earlier, that he was weak, he was a wimp, he was a pussy.  Probably hanging was what he deserved.

Imagine for another minute or more the What If.  What if the mob had actually gotten hold of Mike the Wimp and hauled him out to the gallows, hoisted him up to the noose and with dozens of televison cameras and GoPros and countless cellphone videos recording the murder, hung him by his neck for America to watch.  Would half of us have agreed with his boss, the guy who wouldn’t declare Trump the winner of the election he’d lost, that he had it coming?  I suspect a lot of folks would have declared justice served.  That, I think, is the America we have become.  Those rioters in the Capitol building might well be the true face of a goodly portion of this country.

The question I have is this:  who are the real witch hunters?

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