THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TRUMPOCALYPSE

You can see them nightly on the evening news. Riding angrily across America’s skies like agents of intractable doom.

HATE, LIES, TREACHERY AND FEAR. The four horsemen of Donald Trump’s dreams. Demons unleashed daily in service to his lust for power, riches and revenge. Their shadows race across our great land seemingly unstoppable, provoking discord, division, and destruction in their wake. 

You can hear their malevolent injunctions thundering across America’s storm-filled skies: “Hate your neighbor,” “Fear anyone who is different.” ”Worship me.” “Believe everything I say.”

And their demands grow louder as the hoofbeats draw ever closer. They disturb your sleep, upend our daily lives, and destroy any sense of security or stability we once enjoyed.

No matter that lives were lost, others destroyed, on January 6th; or that 250 years of the peaceful transfer of power was peremptorily upended in Trump’s failed attempt to subjugate the will of the voters, and the soul of the Constitution, to keep himself in power. 

Just as it apparently doesn’t matter to Trump that the lives of innocent Haitian families living legally in Springfield, Ohio have been thrown into turmoil in response to a lie he voiced, and refused to retract after learning it was debunked. 

Those of us who can see Trump clearly for what he is, cannot understand why his followers seem so blind to his fecklessness, his cruelty, or his narcissistic need to elevate himself at the expense of others. Yes, he’s a racist and misogynist; as well as a convicted felon, sexual predator and stealer of his country’s most sensitive secrets. 

So obvious are Trump’s faults and weaknesses, it seems almost biblical that someone that evil and weighted down with the Devil’s baggage could be embraced and worshipped by legions of followers like a golden calf.

One look at the devastation Trump left behind after his first—and God, please, only—term as president should evoke a gagging response to the idea of his ever returning to the Oval Office. Under Trump’s inept management of the Covid crisis, America’s death rate ran 40%-60% higher than all other industrial nations, making him responsible for the deaths of more than 400,000 of the million Americans who died.

DEATH, you’ll recall was one of the bible’s original Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

You can look it up in Trump’s bible if you don’t believe me.

10 thoughts on “THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TRUMPOCALYPSE”

  1. Linda LaTores

    Thanks, Paul!!! Well said, as always. That people, especially people professing to be Christian, support Trump just boggles my mind. I can’t begin to think what will happen if he “wins” (via a stacked Supreme Court, as other Republican Presidents did). sigh….It’s hard to clean up evil when we don’t see it. I do thank Trump for making it so visible.

    1. Paul Steven Stone Post author

      Boggles my mind, too. As for the Supreme Court, they will go down as infamous enablers to one of the worst criminals to ever darken the doorstep of American politics. Worse than McCarthy.

      Hope you’re doing well.

      Hugs,

      Paul

  2. Morris Trichon

    So well crafted and said. You should send this to Kamala and company to use in the final week running up to the elections.

    1. Paul Steven Stone Post author

      Hi Moish! Thanks for your kind words. I have tried to send it to Kamala and other right-thinking people and groups. Don’t expect it to anywhere. Maybe if I did a Tik-Tok video…?

      Hope this finds you and Joann well.Sending hugs!!

      Paul

  3. Lo Galluccio

    You’re so right. Trump makes Nixon look conscientious and patriotic. We can only pray and hope that the sensible and sane people in this country outnumber the idiotic Trump base. Michelle Obama said it well in Kalamazoo. We need an adult in the White House, not a childish narcissist.

    1. Paul Steven Stone Post author

      Thanks, Lo. I’m hoping and praying and writing to bring about the only outcome that will make America worth living in. As for Michelle Obama, can’t recall ever seeing a stronger or better pol;itical speech.

      Hope life is treating you well.

      Warmly,

      Paul

  5. Margaret

    Well said, Paul. I am incredulous at the legions of his supporters. Ones I know say it’s “about policy, not personality”. Ha. Lately I think it’s really about ignorance – willful or otherwise – ignorance in service to selfish greed, self-righteousness, and racism, all allowed by a general lack of empathy or underlying fear of scarcity.

    1. Paul Steven Stone Post author

      Thanks, Margaret. I think we’re looking at the confluence of ignorance and self-interest, many people believing that Trump will do a better job with the economy. Maybe it’s the confluence of ignorance and ignorance.

      Paul

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