Unfriending Donald Trump

("https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/opinion/donald-trump-news.html")

("If We Ignore Donald Trump, We Might See Who He Really Is")

We talk about Donald Trump. We talk about not talking about him. But either way the inevitable reality is that we are in a terrible marriage with someone til' death, at least metaphorical political demise, do us part.

While Patti Davis would suggest we merely unfriend him, like a Facebook acquaintance we banish with a click of the finger, Donald Trump will not be so easily dismissed. He first invaded our homes a lifetime ago, sitting as Emperor, each week announcing life or death for those who kissed his ring and kneeled at his feet. And then he turned a publicity grabbing stunt into 4 years of absolute Hell for this nation.

In the process his name has surely been written and spoken  more often than any other human being on the planet. He has become far, far more than the sum of his parts.

For us to think we, those who have forever found him a blight upon us, can take him down by ignoring him, is pure folly. We are powerless to stop him by sticks stones or silence. We cannot click our heels three times and wish him away. And neither the NY Times, nor other media outlets of similar mind can huff and puff and blow him away by blowing him off.

His people are the ones in charge of this cleansing. They are the ones who created Frankenstein. And they alone can stop him. His end must come from within. Not by passive means but active ones.

Et tu Brute.