He never really wanted to be president. Not really. Sure, the way a first grader wants to be Superman, Trump was in love with the idea of being king of the world. But that's it. He didn't want to do the work.
Now, that he surprised everyone -- including himself -- by gaining the nomination, he's essentially winging it.
In the meantime, the self-styled "Law and Order" candidate, through his angry vitriol and childish personal attacks arguably has only fomented lawlessness and disorder on American streets.
Trump's shunning the "Black Lives Matter" movement, while showering all police officers with praise, only perpetuates the pain of bigotry, subverts justice and increases tensions between blacks and cops.
Trump's call in December for a Muslim ban in the U.S. arguably played right into the hands of Islamic terrorists and has unnecessarily burdened millions of American Muslims.
What impact has Trump had abroad? Is it a coincidence that the United Kingdom, after observing Trump's isolationist overtures for months on end voted in favor of exiting the European Union?
His call to build walls, his mocking assaults of anyone challenging his deluded assertions, his phony posturing and flat out buffoonery should disqualify him from American citizenship, let alone the presidency.
A multitude of troubling unanswered questions remain and circle like vultures over Trump's head, demanding answers.
What exactly is Trump's business interests in Russia?
And where does that $12 million off-the-books paper trail, linking Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort to pro-Russian politics lead?
And equally important, what sort of destructive notions are being planted in the psyche of our youth who have been exposed to the bullying, crude, creepy Trump traveling sideshow for the past year?
We can thank decades of ultra conservative-minded greed for spawning this mutated amalgamation of humanity's basest emotions: anger, resentment, fear and hatred.
A political party can't ideologically align itself so unabashedly with corporate America for so long while trampling Americans' rights, without dire consequences.
Trump is no outsider.
He's the twisted, contorted reflection of contemporary republicanism scowling back from the funhouse mirror.
Until the GOP lives up to this, the circus show will go on, selling out American values.
Now that Trump has begun getting intelligence briefings -- amidst his sporadic, bizarre outbursts and mounting questions about his Russian connections -- our nation's security is threatened in so many ways.
It's long past time Republican leaders, for the sake of this country, unitedly and formerly acted to rebuke Trump.
And it's about time Americans soberly consider that our country's most dangerous home-grown terrorist actually is the alarmist extraordinaire himself, Donald Trump.
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