A Nobel Laureate? Imagine the acceptance speech

What’s going on here? Is it possible that if he is re-elected, Trump may actually do some good? I confess I wouldn’t want to be an American woman if he wins in November, nor a poor American of any description. He will not address the second rate status of those he doesn’t respect, and he doesn’t respect women or the poor. He will however further reduce taxes on the rich, and pretend that the environment is an inexhaustible resource—to be consumed by the rich. So what good could he do? It is not inconceivable he may cool down conflict scenarios somewhat. Apparently he would like to take Kim Yong Un to a basketball game. I suspect despite Yong Un’s anti-U.S. rhetoric there’s nothing he’d like more than to be paraded on the Rose Garden lawn and to spend a few days shopping in New York and Los Angeles. He would surely present that back home as somehow conquering America. Easy access to luxury goods? It’s hard to imagine Yong Un shying away from that prospect. Trump’s his man on that score. And what of Putin? It doesn’t seem to be established in anyone’s mind yet whether Trump really is Putin’s man, but when Trump says he can do a deal to end the Ukrainian war in 24 hours, that can only mean conceding territory to Russia. Does anyone care? What after all is the history of Ukraine if not one of shifting borders? Then there’s NATO. European leaders are running around like scared little rabbits because Trump says  he’s not a big enthusiast, and may pull the plug on US support. After all these years, isn’t it time this peace loving organisation had a rethink? On a different level, Trump is a trade protectionist. As actually is Biden, who has sought, e.g. to repatriate chip-making technologies to the U.S. We all took advantage of China’s cheap labour when it suited—despite the hollowing out of our own manufacturing. Perhaps that zero sum game is coming to an end, something anti-globalists should welcome.
 
But yes, Trump is an anti-democratic demagogue, bent on destroying American democracy, with his election lies, packing the judiciary and threatening (through something called ‘Project 25’) the destruction of a non-partisan civil service. On the other hand perhaps  it’s time to bring the deeply flawed U.S. constitutional undemocracy to book, to expose the myth of separated powers and now, the latest horror, the nascent creation of one U.S. citizen above the law. All along the Democrats in more insipid form have gone along with this ride. Perhaps now is the time for them to do something about it beyond hand wringing.