Please Advise! Is the Bad Man Going to Win?

Please Advise! Is the Bad Man Going to Win? Dear Yank, The Tyee is supported by readers like you Join us and grow independent media in Canada Anyone who isn’t in a nervous sweat right now is either comatose, chuckle-headed, sinister or just working on a really, really difficult jigsaw puzzle. Canadians are especially worried. At least Americans get a vote. We are like hostages locked in the trunk of a car driven by a drunken badger. The campaign’s home stretch has been shocking. Donald Trump is trying his damnedest to lose the election. The question is, will Americans let him? Trump’s entire campaign has been a remake of The Producers, that Mel Brooks film/musical about a stage show designed to be a commercial disaster that somehow fails to fail. Trump has piled up gaffes and outrages faster than a rat can procreate. He’s like a serial killer who has figured out that if you just keep murdering people, the cops won’t be able to keep up. Voltaire once said, “God is a comedian playing for an audience that is too afraid to laugh.” The same, we have lately discovered, is true of the devil. You want to snicker, but it’s all too frightening. Trump said his Madison Square Garden rally, where Puerto Rico was described as an island of floating garbage, was “a lovefest.” In Green Bay, he said, “I want to protect the women of our country.... I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not.” The man who recently rambled on about golfer Arnold Palmer’s tremendous penis, the candidate favoured by a majority of American evangelicals, followed up this weekend by simulating fellatio on a microphone. He also told Tucker Carlson that Liz Cheney should have “guns trained on her face.” (Carlson made his own news this week when it emerged that he once claimed he was attacked and clawed by a demon. Well, OK. But shouldn’t we hear the demon’s side first?)