It’s Good that Trump Is Still Alive

The rhetorical question here is one that millions of Americans ask themselves on a regular basis.  Yes, Trump is a force for evil, so it’s only natural that good people would like to see him removed from the surface of the planet.

But compare the value of that to this chain of events:

Trump is fully exposed for what he is: a lying criminal conman.

He’s immediately and permanently expelled from the U.S. political scene.

He’s indicted on charges of election tampering, incitement to violence, perhaps even treason.

The legal proceedings drag on, but the entire world now has proof of what they suspected all along.

The majority of his erstwhile supporters realize and are forced to admit, if only to themselves, that they’ve been conned.

The U.S. has cured itself of a disease that at one point looked as though it might have been terminal. It’s as if a huge cancer tumor has miraculously been surgically removed from the middle of our nation’s chest.

Our country now has a new understanding of how it’s possible that a thoroughly corrupt human being can subvert American democracy for his own evil ends, and swears never to let anything like this from recurring.