OK, Oliver, tell us how you REALLY feel!

[DFW]

Oliver Kornetzke, who, if I got it right (and I may not have), is an American living in Australia, let loose with a blistering rant that is about as harsh as any written criticism of Trump that I have seen. It is also one that has, as far as I can tell, no glaring inaccuracies unless one feels included in those who kneel.

Here goes (fasten your seat belts):

Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul—all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been—arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul—it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.
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I can't say that I agree that the description fit us all--after all, WE never voted for him, and I'm still unconvinced that a majority of Americans ever really did. I also would not designate so many of the decent people I know, whether in politics or not, as arrogant, stupid, cruel, greedy and corrupt. Unamuno's words ring out again--conquest does not mean you have convinced the one you have conquered, only that you have used your brute force to defeat and subjugate him. Do not take our temporary defeat to mean acquiescence or acceptance, for it does not.