TWGB: Hot Accountability Summer?

 

I know, I know. At this point in my blogging about Trump, my expectations should stay low. Of course Trump has been impeached twice and is a one-term wonder, but he never was convicted by the Senate and his staunchest defenders insist his political story is not over. (Indeed, his most looney-tunes defenders maintain he never left office at all and that the Biden Administration itself is a kind of hoax, which, like the moon landing, a round planet, and the existence of birds*, seems pretty hard to pull off without an improbable amount of people in on the gag, but since when do facts persuade the self-deluded of anything?)

But news that indictments against the Trump Organization could happen as soon as next week have me like a child again, full of hope that maybe, the shambolic obscenity that disgraced the presidency for four years will get some measure of reckoning. Maybe an indictment means all his business loans, dubiously obtained at this point in the Trump credit history, are abruptly called to a disastrous effect. Maybe his resorts lose their liquor licenses (would you stay in a Trump property without booze?). Maybe someone with the Trump last name gets perp-walked. 

Sugar-plums dance in one's head and the heart fills with the honeyed yogurt* of schadenfreude. 

Maybe it helps that I subscribe to the rolling snowball theory of karma. A comeuppance starts with a small thing, but then small things lead to a lot. The Fates aren't merely weavers, but the authors of tragedies. They start small--and build. And Trump is a small thing, hoisted upon his own pedestal by so many--but when do they lose faith?

You could wonder about the 500 folks now arrested for the insurrection attempt at the Capitol, and how their hero has little to offer them, now. Or the "Trump train" members who are being sued under the Klan Act. Do they wonder what they were doing it for--how very little return they would get on their emotional investment in their idol? What does it say about the Republican party and its operatives that they engaged in spy shit against Democratic and liberal groups and so reminded us again that Republicans are mostly paranoid assholes representing Big Money when they aren't minging theocratic authoritarian busybodies or exhibitionistly and grandiosely prolix racists*? (I'll bet those emmerdeurs  are actually pretty satisfied with themselves, and of such is life.)