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.