ANDREW LEVINE – In the Age of Trump, We Are All Playthings of the Gods

The gods must have been as disgusted with the Clintons and the “ism” that bears there name as right-thinking mortals were.

Did they send Donald Trump among us to punish us for tolerating Clintonism and the Clintons for as long as we did?  Probably not.  Vindictiveness is more up the alley of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of Trump himself.

Most likely, they were just playing with us sadistically, the way they usually do.

Or perhaps they set their mean-streak aside for a moment in order to teach us an edifying lesson — about the Democratic Party and the fecklessness of liberals.

Either way, their choice of Trump shows that they have a flair for the grotesque and uncanny.  Their instrument of their will is an ignoramus, an egotistical blowhard, and an even more blatant class warrior (on the wrong side) than Hillary or Bill.

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