Many of us thought it wouldn't happen.
No matter how much we shouted, the Emperor had no clothes; we thought that those who could or would not see it would remain blind to the truth forever.
I mean, it worked with Reagan, didn't it? No matter how much I tried to communicate this to others, no one would listen.
Time and time again, the boy would cry wolf, and no wolf was coming. It got to the point where no one would listen to him. When the wolf finally arrived, the warning was ignored because the villagers no longer believed the boy.
But, lo and behold, things are starting to change.
I'm not precisely sure of the exact trigger. Maybe it was different things for different people. But the end result is that many who used to think he was clothed realize now he is a naked charlatan. Many who were Pavlovian in their response to his wolfy warnings no longer believe him.
Maybe it's because they now see the Emperor lying about things they can easily see are not true. It's one thing to lie about an election he lost; it's another to lie about the prices that people can see are clearly going up, not down. All it takes is a trip to the gas station or to the grocery store, and you can see he's lying. All it takes is seeing your health insurance premium rise and your 401(k) wobble.
Maybe it's the sudden realization that he's not going to truly open the Epstein Files, because lo and behold, it's not a Democratic Party hoax. It's not just filled with Bill Clinton and other Democrats. It's filled with billionaires and elites, people that Donald Trump wants to protect. And the dawning realization that the Number One person he wants to protect is...himself.
Maybe it's the "No New Wars" peacenik America First isolationist, suddenly plunging into an unnecessary and brutal conflict with a large nation of 90 million people. The reasons shift, but the biggest one is the wolf warning cry that they were two weeks away from a nuclear weapon, and we wouldn't want an unbalanced, mentally deranged leader to have a nuclear weapon, would we? These are the same potential weapons that the Emperor had declared just a few months ago that we had completely obliterated in Operation Midnight Hammer.
Now, those who had supported him are beginning to question other things. I was surprised to see the Butler assassination attempt re-emerge recently on social media. And it wasn't because of left-wing accounts. The suspicions were coming from MAGA!
The suspicions had grown so great that the recent incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was largely disbelieved. The immediate response by many was that it was also staged. The credibility of dear leader has declined so badly that a significant swath of his own supporters no longer believe him.
Were these assassination attempts staged? I have no idea. Many open questions surround both incidents. I really miss effective independent journalism, and I really wish that some modern-day Woodward & Bernstein would get to the bottom of it.
The deterioration is finally affecting his poll numbers. His approval rating has plummeted to the low to mid-thirties. Personally, I feel like his popularity should never have risen above one percent, but I have always recognized that he has no clothes and that he CONSTANTLY cries wolf.
For those of you who are finally waking up to this and are finally absorbing the lessons of these fairy tales, I welcome you aboard. I'm sorry you didn't wake up until democracy was in the ICU, but I'm glad you're here now.
Now we have to emulate Hungary and vote in numbers that are too big to ignore, with a single voice that no amount of gerrymandering and voter suppression can silence.
Please join me in voting out every Trump-loving Republican in the midterms this Fall.
