Gonna repost my buddy Dave today, You tell em Dave,how Dotard started at the bottom and can’t go any lower, and everyone’s just gotten used to him and his sleaze.

Donald Trump’s Perverse Advantage

When you’ve sunk this low, there’s nowhere to go but sideways.

 (F. Bruni - NYT - 10/20/18)

FYI, the latest column by Frank Bruni from today’s Times.  I’m sharing this column because I think it illuminates a perverse dynamic about Trump that we all subconsciously know – but which is so omnipresent that we tend to discount just how pernicious this dynamic is.

And this dynamic which Mr. Bruni examines below is the insidious advantage that Trump has by having started his campaign at the very bottom of the barrel (“Mexican rapists”) – and then just digging downward from there.  His every pore oozes sleaze and his every utterance only reinforces his bottomless boorishness.  So nothing he says has any shock value anymore.  Trump has succeeded in “normalizing” the open sewer running right through the Oval Office.  We’re so used to his stench that we don’t even notice it anymore.

Meanwhile, we hold every other politician (especially Democratic ones) to the pre-2016 standards of basic human decency.  We still castigate them for their minor blemishes and imperfections while Jabba the Hut slimes our Oval Office 24/7.  And Trump keeps laughing all the way to the bank (and to a second term if We the People allow ourselves to lose our outrage over the cretin, bigot and bully who defiles our White House ever day he remains under its roof).

(Now ask me what I really think).