Ponzi would be proud

I get it. Just when you think you’re getting your mind around T-Rump’s latest insult, indignity or outrageous act, he trumps himself with another one which is equally or more appalling. A little later, he trumps himself again. Then again, and again.

It’s the new Political Ponzi Cycle. It’s a monumental con job playing out right before our eyes.

What separates investors in a Ponzi scheme and those investing in T-Rump’s Ponzi politics is the difference between an unwitting investor driven by greed and a witting constituent with a disturbing appetite for hate speech combined with utter indifference to the truth.

Charles Ponzi needed new investors to help fund his early investors so he could sustain and fund his fraudulent scheme. T-Rump has a similar challenge. He must continually “fund” his early investors with more lies. More disgrace. More shamelessness. More dishonor.

T-Rump differs from Charles Ponzi in that he’s the fraud. The currency exchanged between him and his investors/constituents is their adulation for his nuttiness.

He’s in high gear ordering troops to the border to fend off a caravan of disparate immigrants hundreds of miles away consisting mostly of young women and children. Ending birthright citizenship with an executive order. Declaring a tax cut for medium-income Americans before the elections. Reversing himself by promising insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions. These are nothing but outrageous statements followed by lies.

He’s succeeding in defining new bottoms for bad behavior with every act. Every tweet. Every public statement. By all accounts, his initial “investors” are being richly rewarded with hate speech, fearmongering and endless lies.

Endless. Ponzi politics.

HARRY HERGET

Little Rock