"Is there anything more fun than a Trump rally?" asked the man himself at a Dayton, Ohio, gathering today.

     Eating a bag of gumdrops and getting sick is more fun than a Trump rally.  

     Last night in Chicago, Trump cancelled ("postponed") a rally attended by about two-thirds supporters and one-third protestors--who organized several days in advance to disrupt a rally led by a hate-monger in a city with a thirty percent Latino population.

     The "postponement" announcement caused cheering by the protestors in the arena and boos and howls by the supporters.  Fighting among some on either side broke out intermittently.  There weren't very many cops in the arena, not enough to clear the place in an orderly manner.  Cops in riot gear were outside on the streets, including a horse patrol.  At least one protestor outside the arena ended up in the hospital. 

     MSNBC last night covered this edifying event for several hours.  Comparisons to the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968 were made.  Violence stemming from political actions, words, and decisions, is not a new thing in America or anywhere else, but last night at least we at home got to watch thousands of people, "passionate" as Trump called his supporters, expressing their hot-headed in the moment uses of straining vocal cords, fists, and heightened blood pressure-elevating emotions.

     One recurring image on MSNBC was of a red Make America Great Again cap waved to the point of almost blurring within the camera's frame.  This shot appeared so many times, as if being looped by the MSNBC show director, that I started calling it "the hat orgasm."  I began to think of it as symbolic of Trump's campaign: a hat with a stupid and meaningless slogan; a money-making product for the man who created the stupid slogan; a hat the color of the Republican Party, shaking like a windblown leaf clutched between the fingers of a man thwarted by those who despise his leader, deprived of the chance to see that leader in action; an empty hat with no brain inside.

     Trump, interviewed by phone by Chris Matthews (who, though he talks tough against Trump when the man isn't present, was nearly as deferential and soft as Sean Hannity of Fox News) took no responsibility for the violence in Chicago last night.  He blamed the protestors, of course.  He acted as if all of his encouragements at recent rallies to rough up protestors, claiming that he'd like to punch protestors' faces, or that one protestor deserved to be removed from the rally "on a stretcher," has nothing to do with inciting violence in the more violently inclined of his supporters, like the man in Fayetteville who assaulted a young black protestor in front of several law enforcement officers who waited a day before arresting the offender, but treated the black protestor like a criminal, forcing him to the floor and threatening further violence.  

     A few months back I thought, How can I feel more disgust with Donald Trump than I already do?  

     Last night's events in Chicago showed a new beginning to the vileness and viciousness of America's own proto-Fascist would-be dictator--a man who has already realized how much he can get away with while the news media continue to fail to utterly condemn him, pretending objectivity and feeding the beast, while a major political party gives itself up to the power fantasy of the worst man in America.

                                                                             Vic Neptune