What Is Happening?

It has been such a strange news week. All of it bad.

I try to avoid writing about politics as it makes me angry and I feel like not a whole lot gets settled.

But this week has started me rethinking that decision.

First of all, the context of this week’s events was clearly framed by John McCain’s funeral. From The New Yorker calling it the “…Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet,” to W. Bush and Obama saying nice things about an adversary while sharing a pew together. (And the two couples did seem to be enjoying each other’s company.)

Then we get Bob Woodward’s book, “FEAR,” which proposes that things are very bad in the Trump White House. Only to be followed by the anonymous New York Times Op-Ed that pretty much confirms Woodward’s book.

I agree with most of the late-night comedians, nothing about Woodward’s book or the Op-Ed piece make me feel any better. Trump is surround ideologies encouraging his worst tendencies, and  cowards who have a way to save the Republic, the 25^th Amendment, but won’t do anything other than secretly try to thwart their boss when he’s not looking.

I can’t help but wonder, how will this end? It just keeps getting worse every week. I’m ready to vote in the Blue Wave, but even then, it would only be a check to Trump’s power. What I fear, but know is right, is that we have to get through two more years of this, because I want Trump removed in an election. I want the people of this country to say, “No more,” and elect another person.

And that is a dangerous gamble. I have a bad feeling that Trump could find a way to win in 2020.

It’s not that crazy of an idea, because none of us thought he’d win in 2016.