A Man, a Plan, a Cabal

Is this Trump’s plan to retake the White House even if he loses the election?

Halloween edition: For the second week in a row, after his fifteen minute fake shift at McDonald’s, Trump dresses up like a working American. Which he ain’t.

Donald Trump has a lot of trouble keeping secrets.

He feels compelled to deliver them on a silver platter to the Russian ambassador and foreign minister right in the Oval Office, to wave them around in front of the Japanese prime minister over dinner, to brag about them to an Australian businessman, and even to steal them and illegally stash them in his bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. His terrible sense of OPSEC was on display again the other night at his Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden when he bragged that he and Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson have a “secret,” presumably having to do with winning the election.

Memo to Donald: It’s not a secret if you go around telling the whole country about it.

Nevertheless, this Nixon-like secret plan has me very worried.

Actually that is a disservice to Trump, because unlike Nixon, I think he really does have a plan, even if it’s not very secret, and even if it’s destructive to the country — in installing a homegrown autocratic right wing regime — rather than constructive, like an end to the Vietnam war five years earlier than it actually did end.

So what is this not-so-secret? We dunno, exactly. Maybe Don and Mike like to dress up like French maids…