Trumped At Last

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It seems that at last a line is being drawn in the sand of American politics and that the waking anxiety dream of the Trump presidency is over. I watched a good chunk of the debate in the House last night (UK time) and was struck by the contrast in the quality and tone of argument on either side of the aisle. Where the Democrats were sombre, dignified and considered, their opposers often came over as shrill, defensive, even belligerent at times in their defence of the indefensible. The impeachment at least prevents Trump making another attempt on entering the White House in four years time. While some diehard MAGA types will no doubt continue to propagate their views, I suspect that support for Trump himself will evaporate quickly once the President Elect is sworn in and that the attention of his ex-acolytes will turn elsewhere. The only niggling worry is the possibility of trouble on Inauguration Day: plans are apparently already being made to toughen up security surrounding the event. Whatever happens, the guard will change from the old to the new, and while the cynical among us would normally quote The Who at this time: ‘Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss…’ even this jaded old man can’t frame the old and the new in anything like the same light this time. I just wish we could change our current government out for something less absurdly damaging than this one. Unfortunately, we’ve got to wait four more years to even get the chance to vote the buggers out, with no chance of an impeachment to rescue us.

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