I just can’t help myself

I’m sorry, but Donald Trump makes me laugh … and always has. He’s a bloviating mediocrity who says things so risible that I can’t just can’t help rissing.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/want-know-weird-donald-trump-090621910.html

I know that there is a serious aspect to the situation. I would never tell my Democratic friends that I laugh at Donald Trump. When they’re around I try to not let on about my inability to take the guy seriously. I know it’s possible that that day might come. But, at least for now, here is the way I respond when they get that furrow in their brow and say: “You Greens could spoil the election and enable a crazy person take over the country”:

I certainly do agree that he is, relative to a usual leader among the elites, immature, deficient, and unsuitable.

Etc.

But he has not (not yet, at least) demonstrated fascistic capabilities. I disagree with Cornel West and Paul Street about that.

Fascism is when an authoritarian honcho rallies thugs in the street and reactionaries in the army to suppress any opposition. I can see the potential for an aging Trump to possibly go in that direction, but it hasn’t come to that. Certainly not yet. And I don’t think it will. Every ostensible President is surrounded by institutions and coteries of the elites that generally are adept at guiding things along the pathway of the status quo.

A nutcase as president is disquieting. Harm is done re: the court system and political polarization, etc. But I don’t see a fundamental tragic shift (as there was with Hitler, Mussolini, etc.).

Sure, Trump sucks much more than any Democrat. It’s actually to a degree that goes qualitative. But not (not yet, at least) to a degree that goes tragic

So, while I’m fully sympathetic to the angst and the great effort of those who strive to keep Trump out of office, well, he’s not bad to a degree that overrides my own effort … to keep pursuing the project that I care about … that of breaking the grip of the duopoly.