Mr. Donegan’s recent epic is touching in that, while still basking in the victory of his beloved leader, he takes the time to offer some tips to the losing team. And he puts a lot into his stuff (“Democrats are paying now for a 2020 deal with the devil,” Nov. 21). Tons of words, many with more syllables than I am personally comfortable with, all carefully arranged into compositions designed to enlighten the huddled masses as to his version of truth. Yet, all his eruditeness does little to conceal the fact that most of what he has to offer is little more than pompous drivel.
The real Faustian bargain is that made by Trump voters. I know them well. I was born and raised in Montana, worked construction all my life, and I even shared foxholes with some of them. They are sick and tired of being abused by business as usual, which inevitably results in them getting screwed over. They are fearful that the widening gyre of politics will suck them even further down on the social scale, if that is even possible. They are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. They are desperate for change. And Trump, (like Obama and Hitler and Mussolini) represents the promise of change. They are so desperate that they will put up with anything, even a great orange maggot, to get that change. After all, what have they go to lose? They are even willing to go to hell to get that change. That is a Faustian bargain.
Mark Henry
San Luis Obispo
This article appears in Nov 28 – Dec 8, 2024.
Another ridiculous comment from Shanti Harris. Whatever will Harris complain and exaggerate about next year after Trump is installed as dictator and the “Republican Party Platform” (that Harris was so enamored of) and Project 2025 are the law of the land?
“I’m 53yo and haven’t forgotten the Cold War or “duck and cover” drills”
Hogwash. By the time you got into school they were doing no such thing anymore. Look it up.
Not threatened by you in the slightest. You liven up these comments with some intelligence. Just too bad your opinion of the United States is so poor, but to each his own. Hope you had a great holiday.
Ok, Shanti Harris, you’re probably right. Have a good weekend.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!