One can hope Trump’s swagger this time may have plucked too discordant a note for at least a sliver of his base. The right wing talking point on ‘immediately politicizing’ the asymmetric use of assault weapons has in Trump’s tweet been taken to a new personal level. Up until now, the supposedly overly-prompt politicization of mass murder was about relevant policy issues: gun control, mental illness. Details of people having known about the shooter not being clairvoyant have never been central, nor has anyone outside of a tabloid gutter thought it wise to jump to quick conclusions and assign prominent blame about such details. Here, however, the President very quickly and pointedly assigns blame beyond the shooter because he thinks it can be turned to his personal benefit.

According to Trump’s tweets, the locals were all terrific heroes, the only slip up anywhere in sight was the FBI’s. Republican Florida Governor completes Trump’s hit by singling out the FBI Director even though the Governor and his Florida minions and colleagues had far more responsibility than did the FBI Director. Indeed, at this early moment, it would appear POSSIBLE (but of course this is premature speculation) that the FBI was informed about the potential shooter BECAUSE OF fecklessness of local officials. .

I never would have imagined that the ‘Fox-obsessed crazy-uncle-at-Thanksgiving-dinner’ could even escape the nursing home, but in this great country, it turns out that anyone really can be elected President.