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The Man Behind the Mask, By Dutch artist Seigfried Woldhek

donald trump is a florid example of everything one ought not to want one’s children to grow up to become: To pin one’s hopes on a person such as this man is to court disaster, because everything he touches, sooner or later, turns to shite. All things in life come with a price: To say one prefers the devil one knows means, in essence, one has chosen the devil. What could possibly go wrong?

The story of donald trump is a morality tale writ large: his excesses will eventually bring about his ruin; we are seeing this happen right now, as his myriad dubious entanglements, finally grown metastatic, are closing in on him on all sides, even, as fate would have it, biologically.

There’s a great lesson to be learned here, but unfortunately, it is being lost on his admirers. They would be wise to peer deep into their hearts for guidance instead of remaining mesmerized, like fish, by the gaudily shiny object dangling before them, unmindful of the baleful hook disguised within.

Everyone, from the ancient Greeks to our parents, has warned us to beware of people like donald trump, but, as was aptly noted by a famed exploiter of human weaknesses from an earlier time, “there’s a sucker born every minute.”

Tim Konrad

October 6, 2020