Maybe Trump is right: He can shoot someone on 5th Avenue and that still isn’t low enough for his supporters

Robert Mueller, rather than answer questions before a House committee, decided to just have a press conference, make a statement, and call it day at the Justice Department. But at least he was clear enough in what he had to say; while he could not prove a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, it was not because it didn’t happen, but because witnesses who could have shed light on the subject either gave false testimony or took the Fifth—which suggests that something amiss did occur, and his report did show that some Trump campaign officials did have contact with Russians. The “failure” was that it just could not be proved that this was “coordinated” from a central source—say, Trump himself. On the subject of obstruction, once more Mueller reiterated that there were numerous incidents that could be construed as obstruction on the part of Trump, but that it was up to Congress to make the determination if this constituted an impeachable offense. In fact it almost seemed as if he was pushing that Congress do just that.

Yet Trump immediately took to twitter and “interpreted” Mueller’s comments as “cased closed.” We know that Trump is not a very good reader or speller, but obviously he can’t hear very well either; perhaps he is just parroting the “interpretation” from Fox News’ usual motley crew of hysterical fanatics (shouldn’t Jeanine Piro have been locked-up in an institution years ago?), although the (few) more literate analysts like Bret Baier are more careful in accessing  Mueller’s statement—although one suspects that Trump privately considers Baier and Chris Wallace to be “losers.” 

While most people do in fact realize that Trump is living in a world of make-believe, playing by rules only he has the “genius” to fathom, and utterly unmindful of the damage he is causing to civilized norms, there is a sizable percentage of  whites (with a few minorities who pathetically attempt to outdo the bigots in their bigotry) who are like weeds with deep roots of hatred that thrive because Trump not only refuses to mow the grass every once in a while, but allows the weeds to grow and prosper and blight the lawn. Now, suddenly we see this epidemic of racist white women coming out of the woodwork menacing blacks and Hispanics with Trump-inspired harangues and even threats with weaponry—the latest incident involving a female manager of a campground in Mississippi pulling out a gun on a black couple who merely wanted to have a picnic. 

The question of how low is too low for Trump supporters and even Republican lawmakers was answered by Trump himself even before the election:  "You know what else they say about my people? The polls, they say I have the most loyal people. Did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay? It’s like incredible.” We are reaching the point where that is becoming less and less a fantasy only Trump shares.