Ace of Spades or Deuce of Hearts
Card players would tell you that often a trump is a trump,
whether it is the Ace of Spades or the Deuce of hearts. Right now on the
political scene, there is a trump at large, and while it is not an ace, it is a
trump never-the-less. Looking at him, and listening to him speak, I have great
difficulty deciding whether he is indeed a trump, or just a chump; whether he
is a valuable card, or what bridge players call just a trash card. I was
thinking on these things when I realized, for all his shortcomings, it is not
really the chump’s fault. I realized
that the man never intended in the first place to be taken seriously. Like Ross Perot of former times, he thought
to himself he would just enter the game for laughs, tell a few jokes and insult
as many people as he could. Why not he
told himself. He had the dollars to spend, and he could always set them off against
his profits. Nothing to lose he thought. But a strange thing happened. People began to take him seriously, and the
more he tried to be ridiculous, the more people, a large section of the American
electorate, took him seriously. Eventually he started to take himself seriously
and here he is the village idiot attracting bigger idiots.
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