Well now, ain’t this a bitch? Most anyone with half a brain has known that something really bad was going to happen once Donald Trump plunked his fat ass in the Oval Office. War, maybe? Another Republican-engineered economic collapse? The escalation of the war against the environment? The acceleration of bigotry and hatred against a variety of people, from Muslims to Mexicans? Or less dramatically, a grinding winnowing of our rights. All these and other bad things have been unfolding, of course, but now we’ve really got a shit storm brewing. It’s the Cornonavirus, and it’s a field day for fear lovers.

And we’re all fear lovers these days. It’s the Donald Trump Fear Show, and it’s televised daily. But, like so much we see on television, the producers are always trying to up the viewership with dramatic new plot twists. Even though they’ve got a captive audience, they think they can improve on their ratings. Trump, master of junk TV that he is, has been jumping the shark since before he took office. And what a smorgasbord of cheap thrills he’s laid before us, from pussy grabbing to love letters from a North Korean thug, from his Saudi friends butchering journalists to his redrawing of maps with a Magic Marker. What a long, strange trip it’s been.

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