Is the insurrectionist-in-chief melting?
Good does not always triumph. Bad guys don’t always get their comeuppance. Despite all the stories we’ve heard since childhood. Ask a conservative. The world is not fair. Ask Donald Trump. Nobody knows more about unfairness than he does.
Our bias toward expecting justice to be done, eventually, and the arc of the moral universe bending toward it, eventually, makes it hard for us to conceive that the former president may exit this life without receiving what he justly deserves. He might. Or his comeuppance might arrive outside the criminal justice system.
Simon Rosenberg urges his Hopium readers to do more and worry less: “Donate to and join the Biden-Harris campaign” and “Make an early investment in North Carolina.” Biden has gained ground on Trump in six new polls.
But the only polls that really count are the ones open on Election Day. Those continue to deliver for Democrats, as they did last night in the Huntsville, Alabama area by 25 points:
Democrat Marilyn Lands on Tuesday decisively won an Alabama state House seat in a long-held Republican district, notching a special-election victory after centering her campaign on promoting access to abortion and in vitro fertilization.
Lands’s win was the latest in a string of Democratic victories around reproductive rights after abortion rights advocates experienced a huge blow nearly two years ago. Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — which had established a constitutional right to abortion—in 2022, Democrats have found success in battleground elections and ballot referendums by focusing heavily on protecting abortion rights and running against GOP opposition to them.
The universe may not be fair, but comeuppance is in the air … even in Alabama.
Now to the insurrectionist-in-chief. The pressures of fighting in four courts to stay out of prison and to keep his family business from imploding while campaiging for president have the already unstable Trump showing signs of losing it. He goes to trial in Manhattan on the hush money case on his least-favorite day of the year, April 15.
Trump has turned to selling Bibles to pay his bills and shore up his evangelical base. Naturally, The Daily Show mocked the hell out of him. Ron Filipkowski posted a mashup of “Two Corinthians” Trump clearly bullshitting his way through questions about scripture. Which is your favorite, New Testament or Old Testament? “Probably … equal,” Trump replies, staling for time. “I think it’s just an incredible … the whole Bible.”
There was a time when Southerners celebrated cautionary tales about trusting traveling Bible salesmen portraying themselves as “Manly.” But those are not the good old days America’s fascist-leaning, Christian-nationalist movement yearns for.
Still, we see more signs that the scales are falling from MAGA eyes, perhaps in enough numbers to send Trump’s container ship crashing into a bridge pier: “Hillary was right.”
Trump’s “truths” are becoming even more disjointed, something an aggressive, gloves-off Biden campaign is quick to pound away at. Biden-Harris is not letting up on working the eye.
Don’t expect the universe suddenly to turn fair, but with any luck there could be a slow meltdown in progress. Maybe Comeuppance will arrive early this year.
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