Robin Wright: The Miasma of Religious Fanaticism

Robin Wright of The New Yorker

Reading Robin Wright's description of various actors among the wide range of ISIS, Al Qaeda and other assorted radical Islamists gave me a new perspective on our new President: He's not as bad as these crazies.

In a recent article in the Islamic State magazine exhorted true followers to launch attacks against "kuffar" (non believers) in their home countries during festivities, singling out the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as a glorious target and its author suggested using a U-Haul truck  "double-wheeled, giving victims less of a chance of escape being crushed by the vehicles tires."  Describing with delight, the prospect of running such a vehicle at high speed into a joyous crowd, one can only imagine the twinkle in the eye of this man who is thrilled at the idea of mowing down children. I now understand the response of the NYPD, blocking off side streets and arraying police at every corner in the city near and along the parade route.

Ms. Wright describes one after another of these religious zealots and given the full range of human behavior thus depicted, the Donald looks rather tame. 

Or rather, simply lame. 

Looking around the planet today, there are really nasty people out there next to whom Trump looks simply goofy.

Consider that whole crew who surrounded Adolph, or Stalin. Even Joseph McCarthy was more unappetizing, if you look at old videos of the man.

It is true, Mr. Trump is coming up with quite a menagerie--a head of the EPA who doesn't believe in global warming, but really, so what? It's not like we are really poised on a new technology which could prevent or reverse global warming if only we bought into it.

So you don't believe in evolution--who is harmed by that? Unless you can convince others you are right, and that's not going to happen any time soon.

Donald may have heard vaccinations cause autism and retardation--the woman in the parking lot told you. But there are enough doctors out there to remind us the Donald is just the President, not your physician.

I'm not saying Donald is harmless, but as a thorough going nitwit, we do not have to take him literally.