"The Big Reveal"

In this age when Donald Trump never met a person or direction he could not or would not disparage as "fake" or "false" and receive accolades from his loyal followers, a phrase popped up on the Public Broadcast System's News Hour last night that I thought was spot on: "The Big Reveal."

EZRA KLEIN: [T]he argument of the QAnon conspiracy is it [that?] Donald Trump, on some level, has this all in hand, that we’re seeing a lot of chaos, but the chaos is all carefully orchestrated, and that, at some point, there’s going to be this big reveal, and Donald Trump and the people he’s working with are going to come out and basically root out all the corruption that has been endemic in Washington for so long.
There’s comfort in believing something like this. (Emphasis added)

The Iran nuclear agreement, climate change, health care (remember "repeal and replace?"), auto emissions, Russia's election hacking, media corruption, immigration and innumerable foes who became friends and vice versa ... all of it couched in lies and mischaracterizations that the Washington Post tallies at something more than 4,000 since Trump took office ... Trump has thrown each and more into a cocked hat to the wild applause of his constituency. The only piece of actual legislation he can lay claim to in a year's time is a tax bill that benefits the well-to-do. Otherwise he has sown confusion by nibbling at what he dislikes.

And it is comforting.

It's important to be comforted. That's what presidents used to do -- comfort, nourish and sustain. And to believe Trump has an uncluttered view and vision is ... well ... ahhhhhhhh.

But at what point, if ever, does the Big Reveal step out of the shadows and reveal itself? What might it look like? What answers does Donald Trump have? These are questions his constituency does not ask. They are too busy being comforted without knowing the basis and substance of that comfort.

And increasingly, purely on a guessing basis, the Big Reveal comes into focus ... the Big Reveal is that Donald Trump is the answer. Whatever your question, Trump has the answer ... and it is loud ... and it is comforting. He KNOWs what others lie about, create falsehoods about ... and America goes down the toilet. Wouldn't dictatorship be better? Wouldn't Donald Trump be better?

The Big Reveal is like a mechanical rabbit at a greyhound race -- always just out of reach, always offering a target that cannot be attained. But ....

It is comforting.

Trust me.