When you can think about the foyer bar of the Manchester Marriott as an Anglo-Saxon mead corridor, I can clarify the way it felt to cowl the New Hampshire main.
I’ll want the assistance of the late Seamus Heaney, who described what it was wish to be quaffing in Heorot Corridor whereas Grendel lurked and swooped by means of the frost-stiffened north.
In his lyrical translation of “Beowulf,” Heaney described Grendel as “the terror-monger,” the “captain of evil” and “the dread of the land.”
He wrote that the fiend “dominated in defiance of proper” and was “malignant by nature, he by no means confirmed regret.”
The “highly effective demon, a prowler by means of the darkish, nursed a tough grievance,” he stated, including: “Grendel waged his lonely conflict, inflicting fixed cruelties on the individuals, atrocious harm,” pursuing “vicious raids and ravages.”
The New Hampshire main felt like a chapter of that Previous English saga: Donald Trump, the ogre who retains coming again to terrorize us, was stomping round that pretty little snow-covered state, devouring his foes.
Sadly, Nikki Haley was no Beowulf. She was not mighty and canny sufficient to rescue us from the brute. Not a single mead bench was damaged within the battle. Her blade made slight cuts, however she was tentative, hoping to not drive away Trump supporters. She was on protection, not offense. She wanted extra of that adamantine high quality that Nancy Pelosi confirmed towards Trump.
Haley didn’t say what wanted to be stated: Donald Trump shouldn’t be president as a result of he tried to overthrow the federal government. We will’t have somebody guiding our democracy who’s undemocratic, claiming that each contest he loses is rigged. We will’t have a president who encourages violence, vomits misinformation, campaigns by humiliation and smears and, recently, portrays himself as divine.
Engorged by his victories over Haley and Ron DeSanctimonious, the Mar-a-Lago Monster grew stronger.
Haley was capable of get below his pores and skin by taking a web page out of his e-book on election evening. She took her second-place end and boasted that it actually counted as a win of types. And that despatched Trump right into a scary “Caine Mutiny” monologue.
All he needed to do Tuesday evening in Nashua was be gracious in victory and say he was going to give attention to the overall election.
However he’s so afraid of being forged as a loser that he was completely thrown for a loop by Haley bragging about taking the silver medal. He thinks he’s the one one who’s allowed to spin election outcomes.
“I stated, ‘Wow, she’s doing, like, a speech, like she received,’” Trump stated. “She didn’t win. She misplaced.” How eliminated is he from his personal actuality that he can say that with a straight face? That he doesn’t know he’s speaking about himself?
He was befuddled by the effrontery of Haley persevering with her problem to him. He couldn’t cease his Captain Queeg rant.
Ah, however the strawberries.
“We’ve received virtually each single ballot within the final three months towards Crooked Joe Biden, virtually each ballot. And he or she doesn’t win these polls. And he or she doesn’t win these. This isn’t your typical victory speech, however let’s not have any person take a victory when she had a really unhealthy evening. She had a really unhealthy evening.” (For sure, Haley does win some polls.)
Ah, however the strawberries.
“I stated I can go up and I can say to everyone, ‘Oh, thanks for the victory. It’s great.’ Or I can go up and say, ‘Who the hell was the impostor that went up on the stage earlier than and, like, claimed a victory?’ She did very poorly, truly.” He added: “I don’t get too offended. I get even.”
Ah, however the strawberries.
“However I felt I ought to do that as a result of I discover in life you possibly can’t let individuals get away with bullshit. You’ll be able to’t. You simply can’t do this. And after I watched her within the fancy costume that most likely wasn’t so fancy, come up, I stated, ‘What’s she doing? We received.’”
What does that bitchy line about Haley’s fairly blue flowered costume even imply? It’s as if he can’t even summon a sexist insult that is sensible. No marvel Haley known as him “completely unhinged” on Friday.
He saved going along with his demented rant on Fact Social two days later: “I heard BIRDBRAIN completely ‘bombed’ final evening in South Carolina. Why the shock, she simply bombed in Iowa and New Hampshire in a really large manner, and misplaced each States.”
He has actually misplaced the thread of how a democracy works. This was evident once more in his outrageous endorsement of a plan to short-circuit the primaries and have himself topped the presumptive nominee by the Republican Nationwide Committee. After a backlash, he backed off and disavowed his personal want.
Trump was nonetheless performing erratically in a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Friday, stalking out and in. After the jury returned a verdict ordering him to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll for defaming her, he blasted out a screwy screed on Fact Social, ending with, “THIS IS NOT AMERICA!”
Luckily, it’s. But it surely received’t be if Grendel terrorizes his manner again into the Oval Workplace.
