A tyrant by any other name…
Gim Teh writes chillingly of America under Trump. Surrounded by megalomaniacs and minions, with the numbers in the House and the Senate, a handpicked majority of conservative judges in the Supreme Court, and absolution from criminality while in office, he already has more power than George III. Only the 22nd Amendment stands in his way for a life tenancy of the White House.
As his increasingly irrational behaviour plunges, not only his own countrymen and women, but also the whole global community into a quagmire of fear and uncertainty, doubts as to his mental state are being raised.
While the foreboding reality of the situation is not a laughing matter, it has a certain ring of irony to it. The United States has at its heart the declaration that “a prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people”. It might be time for the Tea Party patriots to brush up on their creation mythology and get those long rifles down from their brackets over the fireplace.
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