I Got Those Inauguration Blues - Hail To The Chief While The Incredulous Scurry For Cover

The Inauguration of Donald J Trump is but a few days away, and the Left is still in disarray, disbelief, and incredulous fluster over it.  How could this have happened?  How could this insurrectionist, racist devil possibly be seated once again in the Oval Office?

Such disbelief, such downright shock and utter emotional disassembly was made far worse because of their absolute certainty, received wisdom, and sense of moral and ethical right.  It wasn't simply that their opponent had won, it was as though some apocalyptic design had been visited upon them.  The country couldn't have simply fallen under the spell of a tummler, an oversized, ridiculous circus clown. How could the good people of America, even with their naïveté and credulous backwater notions, not have seen the true nature of this dictator-in-waiting, this anti-democratic Hitler?

In fact the good people of America did see Trump clearly, but saw nothing of the hysterical caricature painted by the Left.  Their man was a patriot, a believer in the foundational values of the Republic, a man of principle and purpose. Of course he was an outrageous personality, a braggadocio, and a no-holds-barred, politically incorrect politician, a big mouth, an in-your-face bully; but America was sick and tired of whiny, whingey, hectoring preachers; fed up with the inverted, woke vision of a rotten, nasty country, and loved Trump, the Genghis Khan of the Right, the conqueror, the hero. 

Now, in the runup to the Inauguration, Trump is at it full bore and full of bellowing outrage.  He has appointed a Cabinet of loyalists committed to dismantling every idealistic, dreamy, destructive notion of Utopian idealism. Gone would be the immanent power of the State and the bureaucracy that maintains it.  Gone would be the revisionary interventions in schools, the spread of inverted sexuality, and the cowardly catering to Machiavellian powers. 

Worse, he has proposed a takeover of Greenland, Panama, and Canada whose leaders are incapable of safeguarding natural resources and keeping them out of the hands of America's opponents (Greenland), whose tinpot nationalism of the custodian of the world's most important waterway (Panama) is obstructing American free trade, and whose masters of the ruined state across the border with their foolish, immoderate, and insane progressivism, has made it a refuge for immigrant waste (Canada). 

Of course no one but the Left takes him at his word.  As they have for ten years, they insist on countering his ‘lies’' with the truth.  They believe absolutely that pogroms and Kristallnacht will return with jackbooted storm troopers rounding up illegal immigrants and shipping them in cattle cars back across the border; that a more brutal, unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism will ravage the poor and create great shibboleths and redoubts of elitist wealth; and that gays and transgenders will be isolated, marginalized, and sent to reservations as pitiful and forgotten as Pine Ridge.

Trump supporters hear what they have always heard - hyperbole, exaggeration and a welcome, canny ability to reduce the Left to tears. Only the credulous, self-important, and ridiculously self-righteous claques in Washington really believe that gunboats will be headed to the Panama Canal, that the Sixth Fleet will be deployed to Greenland and an invasion of Normandy proportions will overrun it, and that Canada will be placed in an economic and financial stranglehold until it gives up its sovereignty. 

Trump, true to form, wants the flags that have been lowered for Jimmy Carter be raised to new heights for his Inauguration.  He hates the Gregorian calendar for putting him on stage with Martin Luther King, and wants his show to be the biggest show on earth, a show of might, patriotism, and exuberance. 

All of which is vintage Trump.  Nothing less was to be expected.  Not only was he triumphant in victory, he humiliated the very politicians who for ten years tried to dishonor and destroy him.  An outrageous, Soviet style parade of military might and political power is exactly the way to drive a nail into the coffin of his enemies.

 

'We will boycott the Inauguration', shouted Bob Muzelle, an old, faded progressive but with still enough fire in his belly to show his outrage and speak for the voiceless millions who shared his anger and militant objection.  Unknowingly channeling Winston Churchill, that hated colonialist and usurper of black and brown rights he said, 'We will stand firm, we will object, we will storm the battlements, we will never give in', to which there was only polite applause drowned out by the raucous pre-Inauguration celebrations on K Street below the windows of his rattletrap non-profit office rental. 

He was but one of the hoarse, pleading voices heard during these days.  Not only were Bob and his compatriots out of a job, out of power, and on the run; but felt humiliated as the country backpedaled on everything progressive.  DEI, Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, was out the window. The plight of the black man such as it was portrayed by the Left, was ignored in a wave of opportunity.  Transgenders were cast as circus freaks, and asylum seekers as unwanted illegal aliens.

The combination of a political rout and the humiliating indignity of not only seeing their cherished programs dismantled but the entire progressive ethos terminated, relegated, and dismissed was too difficult to face.

Across the street in a well known conservative watering hole, a Trump supporter in town for the Inauguration was feeling his oats - an enthusiasm, a sense of triumph and relief, a joyous bye-bye to sanctimony, presumptuousness, and downright bullshit.  

And so it was that this particular changing of the guard was much anticipated.  Donald Trump was unlike any President in history - a man of Las Vegas, Hollywood, and the mean streets of New York; an outrageous, intemperate, crude bully who also held the most foul opinions.  

A Trump presidency, his opponents claimed, would be the beginning of the end of democracy.  His supporters, on the other hand, cheered the rout of fools and looked forward to a government free of cant and small-minded intellectual corruption. 

 

A divided country? In the past perhaps, but coming together nicely as conservatism takes hold here and everywhere else in the world. 'It's our time', shouted the Trump barfly, and the whole place erupted.