Americans get off on hurt, cruelty and revenge — and soulless Trump is their hero

Just two weeks before the most consequential election in American history, I decided I’d finally had enough of the hurt and absurdity associated with once again dealing with a racist, America-attacking slob on our presidential ballot.

I put the blame for this where it squarely belonged: the wobbly, broken people in this country who stand up for the repulsive man, and his odious party.

I led the piece this way:

“I have heard way more than enough of this grotesque garbage that perhaps we should try to understand what makes the Trump voter tick, and somehow sympathize with their support of an unapologetic loudmouth who is so vile he sees “good people” on both sides of a violent white supremacist rally.”

I asked:

“Have you seen or heard this heated drivel that Kamala Harris and other Democrats have done an inadequate job of connecting with Trump voters who see nothing dangerous about a man who refers to human beings as “vermin,” and has adopted Adolph Hitler’s talking points at his odious campaign rallies? Have you seen or heard this absolute high-grade nonsense that we should work to lower the temperature in this country, and maybe not take it so personally when one party has gone completely in the tank for a hideous man who told the people who attacked America on January 6, 2021 that he “loves them?””

I stated:

“It is deplorable, and I’m here to remind you IT IS NOT NORMAL.”

Well, we know how the election turned out, and just five weeks later I am here to tell you I undersold my opinion of just how low these people would go when they crawled into the ballot box and somehow decided that the lying, racist felon, and not the lifetime public servant and law-abiding prosecutor, should inhabit the most powerful position in the world.

This has, in fact, become America’s new normal, and I am typing to you as a proud member of the incensed minority, who cannot believe we are once again being subjected to this disgraceful and dishonorable raw sewage that somehow tries to hold itself up as “leadership.”

I suppose it would be easier to just accept all this, and quietly move through what’s left of my life in bitter submission, but that just feels in many ways to be an early date with the grave.

Besides, we saw how all that went in 1930s Germany. And if you think that’s an overstatement then get in line with the rest of the problem, because I’ll have more on that in one minute.

Personally, I will have nothing to do with a Trump supporter. They have been excised from my life. I learned for good four years ago during their doubling-down period of absurdity, that what truly fuels these people has nothing to do with decency and love of country or fellow man. It has everything to do with lopsided support for an America that believes it can legally drag good people through the dirt, and then have a good laugh about it.

This is from my piece seven weeks ago detailing the truth about the America-attacker’s ardent supporters. Feel free to breeze through it, or ignore it altogether, because there will be some news on the other side. But I am putting it here again, because it was all confirmed November 5:

-You have told me you don’t really believe in “law in order” because in fact you support a convicted felon, who is currently facing scores of other felony charges for all manner of crimes, instead of supporting the career prosecutor who locked cheating lowlifes like Trump away behind bars ...
-You have told me you don’t believe in democracy, because you support the traitor who helped plan and execute the first attack on our Capitol since 1812, and attempted a violent coup that was one corrupt vice president away from possibly succeeding.
-You have told me you don’t believe in truth and honesty, because you support the man who told an astonishing documented 30,573 lies and mistruths during his epically awful presidency, and does nothing but lie from the time his fat little feet hit the deck in the morning until he finally passes out from overexposure at midnight.
-You have told me you don’t believe in our children’s future or the future of our planet, because you support the complete imbecile who is a sworn enemy of science, thinks climate change is a hoax, and that wind turbines cause cancer.
-You have told me you don’t have a shred of respect for the women in your lives, because you support the felon who physically attacks and berates them, and does not believe they should have the same rights men do.
-You have told me you don’t believe in a strong economy because you support the guy who wrecked the perfectly good one he inherited from Barack Obama so magnificently by failing to pass the only real test of his gross presidency. His multi-pronged failures to answer the COVID crisis, was among the greatest failures in American history. He simply couldn’t find it in his dark, empty soul to drum up even a shred of compassion for the millions of Americans who were sick and dying, and even went so far as suggesting that maybe we try drinking Lysol to combat COVID’s terrible effects.
-You have told me you don’t believe all Americans deserve affordable healthcare, because the guy you support tried to do away with that without any plan to replace it, and now pathetically tells us he has “a concept of a plan” to make it better. Can you really be this damn stupid?
-You have told me you don’t really support blue collar, working Americans because you support the guy who passionately hates unions, refuses to support raising minimum wage, and has relentlessly stood up for the corporations, starting with Big Oil, who grease his bottomless pockets.
-You have told me you really aren’t Christian, if I am to understand this religious orthodoxy at all, because I just don’t think Jesus Christ would have much respect for a foul-mouthed, abusive slob, who dutifully avoids church, belittles people who have less than him, and pawns off Bibles online like they are some steak, sneaker, or watch to pay off his endless stream of lawyers, and pad a lifestyle spent behind locked gates, where he cheats at golf and avoids working-class Americans at all costs.
-You have told me you don’t really support the men and women in uniform because you bow to a reprehensible draft-dodger who calls our fallen “suckers and losers” and just weeks ago disgraced the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery for a cheap, campaign photo op. The last two chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of staff, including one he appointed are telling you that the man you support means our country harm, so kindly save all that phony patriotic garbage you are trying to dump on the rest of us.

So now the gory news, and but the latest bone-chilling example of where this is all headed:

On Friday, we learned that the lawyer, Aaron Siri, helping the certifiably crazy Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick health officials to staff the Department of Health and Human Services, has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine.

Read that again.

Does ridding ourselves of a life-saving measure that has protected hundreds of millions of people from a virus that causes paralysis and/or death sound at all normal to you?

Did you ever imagine before 2016 that a party running on making polio great again would have success at the polls in America?

I’m sorry, but just what in the f--- are normal people supposed to do with insane information like this???? It blows the mind of anybody with even a shred of sense in their damn head.

This isn’t just dangerous, it is criminal, warped and ghoulish.

It is surprising even for a cult of knuckle-draggers who viewed wearing masks during a pandemic that killed millions of us an affront and inconvenience to their warped way of life.

That one never should have passed for normal, either, but in retrospect almost looks in the vicinity of sane when stacked up against returning polio to America.

This Titanic news, which so far is being treated with a casual shrug in our bought-off press, was just the latest clown car to take to the America-attacker’s fast track toward the cliff since November 5.

He has already nominated one obscene billionaire after another to staff his broken cabinet — all of whom are far more interested in building their stock portfolios than they are building up the lives of average Americans.

Worse, in just the past five days alone, the orange, nuclear-powered blowhard has already admitted that he "can't guarantee" tariffs won't raise prices on goods, and that lowering grocery prices "is very hard."

Go ahead, read that one again, too, because we have been led to believe that those were the chief reasons people voted for Trump again. But as I exhaustively outlined above, they actually had nothing to do with it.

The majority of Americans get off on hurt, cruelty, and revenge and the soulless America-attacker is just the person to provide it.

Kennedy Jr. himself is so sick and unhinged his entire damn family spent whatever was left of their diminishing political capital to warn about the snake in their family to no avail.

They know full well how sick and dangerous he is.

In Hitler’s Germany, there was a SS physician named Josef Mengele who conducted inhumane, deadly, medical experiments on thousands of prisoners at Auschwitz. Mengele, who was infamously nicknamed the "angel of death," conducted most of his heinous experiments on children.

It is children who receive the life-saving vaccines that Kennedy Jr. most abhors.

And if you think I am swerving out of my lane and going too far here, you are in danger of becoming the problem, because here is a passage from a recent CNN story detailing Kennedy’s criticism of the ghastly man and his supporters, who he now curiously can’t wait to work for and with:

But Kennedy’s harshest attacks date back to Trump’s rise in 2016, when on his radio show “Ring of Fire,” Kennedy applauded descriptions of Trump’s base as “belligerent idiots” and suggestions that some were “outright Nazis” and “spineless fellow travelers.” Kennedy also likened Trump to historical demagogues like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, accusing Trump of exploiting societal insecurities and xenophobia to amass power.

Kennedy himself has repeatedly showed a weird, sickening affinity for Hitler and a callous disregard for the millions who were killed in the Holocaust, likening the Covid policies put forth by Dr. Anthony Fauci this way, as reported in Politico in January, 2022:

“Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could you could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,” said Kennedy, a nephew of former President John F. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother, former U.S. attorney general, civil rights activist and Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy.
Kennedy Jr. went on to say that today, “the mechanisms are being put in place that will make it so none of us can run and none of us can hide,” and complained about 5G, the newest generation of wireless communication networks, and about vaccine passports.
An AP investigation published last month detailed how Kennedy has invoked the specter of Nazis and the Holocaust in his work to sow doubts about vaccines and agitate against public health efforts to bring the pandemic under control, such as requiring masks or vaccine mandates.
In a speech to the Ron Paul Institute in October, for example, Kennedy referenced Nazis multiple times, obliquely comparing public health measures put in place by governments around the world to Nazi propaganda meant to scare people into abandoning critical thinking. Last month, he put out a video that showed a picture of Fauci with a Hitler mustache.

So on one hand, Kennedy Jr., is leery of Hitler (even if lucky little girls like Anne Frank could run and hide from him), while on the other pathetically throwing himself at the fat, little feet of a man, who he himself compared to the monster who created the terrible Holocaust.

Everything — EVERYTHING — is wrong with this.

In closing I am saying this: Things are only going to get worse in America — much worse — in the coming days and months. It took us no time at all to get to this terrible place, and the reason for that is that there are millions of people who support the monstrous, America-attacking Trump, and boisterously stand behind him and his grotesque plans — like entertaining the elimination of life-saving vaccines.

In Hitler’s Germany, his gruesome supporters were said to "know about it (his atrocities) but said nothing." In Trump’s America, his gruesome supporters are only too proud to amplify them.

D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here.