By Julie A. Ryan
I love Halloween, but I hate being scared. The spirit of creativity—the clever costumes and parties produced by wonderfully creative people I know—is what causes me to look forward to Fright Night each year. But I also scare easily and dread the anticipation of being terrorized by monsters lurking in the corner.
This year, I’m more terrified of November 4th than I am of October 31st. I’m holding my breath as I wait for Donald Trump’s reaction to mid-term elections across the country. It’s human nature to want people to win who reflect their own ideologies and goals. But it’s monstrous behavior for a president to terrorize our country by threatening that the results of a fair election will be overturned if his “guys” don’t win—especially the ones with rear ends he admires and has recently raved about at his rallies.
The monster-in-chief will no doubt have much to throw tantrums about as people cast votes in reaction to Trump’s tariff-induced economic hardship, Trump’s war with Iran, and the government’s murders of people on American soil caught in Trump’s war on immigrants. I’m afraid that election results across the country will not be enough to feed Trump’s freakish ego. Election results that change the occupants of the House and Senate could threaten Trump’s current political protection from being held accountable for raping girls that Jeffrey Epstein provided for him. Trump might feel cornered.
Because monsters in corners don’t behave predictably, it makes me feel nervous that I don’t know exactly how Trump will react to fair-and-free election results. There’s a good chance that November 4th could be “a date which will live in infamy” as Trump bombs our country with terrorizing statements and actions that further divide us in his attempt to obliterate the concept of American democracy.
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