Is it too much to imagine that Trump, after spending a miserable Christmas Eve all alone in the White House, pretending to “give out” contracts for the Wall, dissing the Fed, and “briefing his team“ on N Korea, might be awakened by the ghosts of Xmas past, present, future? ...
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That he might confront the barrenness of his life and recognize the wider web of human relations in which each person is embedded? That he might see the effect of his actions and attitudes on the happiness of others?
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That he might see how his rejection of love in the past has frozen his own capacity for life? That he might see for the first time the reality of the lives around him, the suffering he has failed to avert, the opportunities for love that he has squandered? #
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Will he glimpse the fate that awaits him, to die alone with his wealth, unloved and unmourned? Convicted by this vision, will he embrace the opportunity to change his life, now realizing the true meaning of Merry Christmas, a phrase previously deployed only for cynical effect?
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Will he wake up tomorrow and dispense with the Wall, erase his Twitter feed, rush to a shelter on the border where children sleep in cages, take them by the hand to find their parents and treat them to the best Xmas feast any of them has ever seen? And from that day on...
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Might it be said that nobody more truly kept the spirit of Christmas— not just one day a year, but every day, than Donald J Trump?
As POTUS would say: “We shall see.”
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Sadly but more likely a different tale: “Tonight you will be visited by 3 spirits. The ghosts of indictment past, present, and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.’” - Jim Butcher, “White Night” (The Dresden Files, #9)
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