This morning a comment by Jerry Garcia came to mind. In an interview Garcia was asked about the Altamonte killing. The Grateful Dead played at that event where a young man was brutally murdered by wilding Hells Angels who had been hired as security guards.
Garcia noted that during the killing, The Rolling Stones were playing the song, Sympathy for the Devil. He said, “You can’t put that stuff out there.”
Convicted Criminal Donald J Trump has been “putting that stuff out there” for years. When your stock and trade is whipping up peoples’ worst angels you are riding the tiger. Some fool with a long gun is apt to take you up on your dare to get wild.
Donald Trump is lucky to be alive. Another inch to the left and that bullet could have removed a substantial portion of his brain. He has been dancing with the Devil and the Devil has a reputation of collecting his due when the dance is over.
None of us know how this event will wash out. It could be just another of the multitude of detritus Convicted Criminal Trump leaves in his wake, to be half forgotten in a week. Or it could be a seminal event that changes history. Somehow I don’t think it will be good, whatever the end result is.
Whatever, we are on this tiger’s back and taming it is unlikely. Pray we aren’t the tiger’s lunch this time next year.