Dear Trump supporters—Congrats; your dreams came true. He’s back. You must be filled with MAGA pride when you read these recent headlines from The Washington Post: “Trump Team Weighs Pentagon Pick After Sexual Assault Allegation Surfaces;” “Global Health Experts Sound Alarm Over JFK, Jr., Citing Samoa Outbreak.”
Oops, I forgot, you don’t read the “fake news.” Facts are just so woke, aren’t they?
Next year, because of your anger, the best people will soon be in charge of your health, your environment, your wives’ and daughters’ bodies, your libraries and your schools.
Fluoride in your water? Gone. Contraception? Illegal. Books on the Civil Rights movement or any novel by Margaret Atwood or Kurt Vonnegut? Burn, baby, burn. Required Bible studies in public schools? Why not, as long as they are Trump’s “God Bless the USA Bible.” Attention to climate change? Drill, drill, drill. And if those libtard, tree-hugger, DEI crackpots dare take to the streets to protest? This time the U.S. military is standing by to bash in their heads.
So when the international tariffs take effect and the cost of your iPhones skyrocket, when the veggies and fruits are rotting in the fields because all the farmworkers are locked up in Stephen Miller’s concentration camps, and prices on your groceries spike, when all those unwanted babies born to underaged girls apply for welfare that doesn’t exist…
And when you become ill from fouled air and poisoned water, when your family doctor and your neighborhood librarian are arrested, when you see the bloated profits Trump and Elon will rake in during the next four years (or longer) as they plunder the U.S. Treasury, I do not want to hear any of your complaints or gripes. Just remind yourself that whatever happens, thank God you didn’t elect that damned woman of color.
Stephen J. Lyons commentaries have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, Washington Post, USA Today and more.
