What shocked me, was him turning the home guard on his own citizens. I tried to relate some empathy to it, in the sense of trying to work out what was going through his mind by doing that.
The best I could come up with, is similar to people damaging the Churchill statue, and Boris sending in troops to deal with it, extreme by any level of the imagination. Not saying that some of the rioting shouldn't have been quelled in other states, but this was Washington DC, the presidential homeland.
In fact if Trump had done nothing, and they had trashed the White House, as he was helicoptered out of there, that would have played in Trumps favour. Because it would have shown the thugs for what 'some' of them were and probably have won him votes.
Sadly the day he let his guards attack his own people, made him no better, than North Korea, China or Russia. It was like watching democracy fall apart on your tv screens, and a new era of dictatorship unfold, in the so called land of the free.
The thing is I'm not even shocked anymore. The list is so long. The way he tried to get another country to dig up dirt on his competitor, the way he see his women, the comments about his daughter, the removal of children from mexican parents which looked more akin to 1930's germany than the U.S.
Him bringing in the troops was so bare-faced, it was like him stroking his own ego while saying "you can't touch me, I'm all powerful" with no regard for what whether it was right or wrong. He's brought things to a new low which I honestly didn't think was possible after Goerge Dubya. It's like some really **** reality tv show watching Trump. Some president out of a dystopian Arnie movie.
What makes it worse is we have a man who isn't fit to hold office likely to replace him.
