Trump is your old uncle with better lighting- Garrison Keillor

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By Garrison Keillor February 27 at 4:04 PM


“Maniacal” is not a word you care to hear about the president of the United States, especially not from his close adviser. Previously, “maniacal” was reserved for the Joker, Doctor Doom, Dr. No, Lex Luthor and the boy Führer of North Korea, but there it was, uttered by Stephen K. Bannon to the conservatives congregated in Washington — “maniacally focused” — which tells you why Mr. Bannon is not allowed out very often: He would scare the bejabbers out of the good Republican voters in the Midwest. He is a crusader and out here in flat country, where we don’t have huge boulders to hide behind, we try to get along with the neighbors.

“Maniacal” does not jibe with the sluggish Trump we’ve seen the past month, the placid scowl, the rambling rants against the media, the weary performer going through the motions of a role that doesn’t particularly engage him. Maybe Bannon meant “monotonously focused” or “very focused for a mannequin” or maybe he meant to say “many locusts.” What the president has going for him, his trump card, is the air of danger he gives off, the chance that he may suddenly come unhinged — not since 1974 have so many Americans thought the Current Occupant might be wacko. That is what keeps him in the news every day.

But you watch the man do his routine, and the eyes look dead, the face is slack. Everybody used to have an old uncle like him, and Trumpology is simply that old uncle with better lighting.

The uncle has the inside dope and what he knows is that we’re on the verge of disaster, thanks to our enemies. It used to be the Jews and the blacks and now it’s the Mexicans and Muslims, but the rant is the same. And now the dotty uncle is in charge of the nuclear code. Ian Fleming couldn’t have dreamed up anything better.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-your-old-uncle-with-better-lighting/2017/02/27/dcd75e92-fd24-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.a5313bc7ecf2

[ginnyinWI]

1. and he gets his information from the same place as the old uncle.

Fox and Friends.