Augh! I’m compelled!
That came to mind when I learned — yes, yes, I’m well behind on my reading, maybe I’ll catch the fiendish reading monster of relative ephemera, aka news articles and blog posts, when the snow flies – that the detention center dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz‘, a tent city in the Florida Everglades, is being dismantled:
In July, Florida Republicans launched the brutal “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center deep in the Florida Everglades with great fanfare. Soon, the Trump administration was championing it as a model it wanted to replicate across the country. But less than two months later, the camp is being dismantled and emptied of detainees. [MSNBC]
And, frankly, with nary a whisper.
As if a stage change was taking place on the stage that is the world.
Remember, President Trump’s greatest skill – I shan’t call it talent – isn’t building, branding, or governing. He reportedly made millions and millions of dollars, and built a nation-wide reputation, as an actor.
Or, as a professor long ago said of John Wayne, a performer. Although I never saw Mr Trump’s vehicle, The Apprentice, my understanding is that he did the same thing over and over and over; so the professor also said of Wayne.
But now that Mr Trump is descending into dementia, his acting skills coming to the fore to sell his daily issuance of mendacity, he seems to believe that the world is a stage, and yesterday’s big dramatic scene is for tomorrow’s disassembly, quietly accomplished to make way for the next big act.
Not the way a government should be run.
