The concrete Trump poured to destroy democracy is beginning to cure. How long will it take to be as strong as Hoover Dam? By Hal M. Brown
Trump has poured the cement of his ruthless dictatorship. It is rapidly settiing. Soon it will be as hard as the concrete in Hoover Dam.
Kids and sometimes adults (perhaps more often than they want to admit) sometimes write or make impressions in newly poured concrete sidewalks. This is from the web about the constructon of Hoover Dam:
Once the bottom of the bucket opened up, it disgorged 6.1 m3 of concrete which was, generally, only a layer a couple of centimeters thick in that particular column. All this was done between June 1933 and June 1935The Hoover Dam concrete would cure in 125 years by conventional or natural methods. Crews, however, used some innovative engineering methods to hasten the process. Nearly 600 miles of steel pipes woven through the concrete blocks significantly reduced the chemical heat from the setting for the concrete.
The construction of the dam was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over 100 lives. You can look at my illustration and make you own analogy.
Above: Before and after drawings.
Trump has already poured the concrete which cements his role as a ruthless do-what-he-damned-well pleases dictator. Screw the courts, turn on the full-court press. (I don’t like to use sports metaphors, but this one was too good.)
He is testing the limits each and every day. All of those trying to stop him are like those who make their mark in cement sidewalks. The concrete will cure no matter what and whatever they did with court rulings in their favor or crowds at rallies like Bernie and AOC are holding or protests around the country. Democracy loving people are making their mark but the concrete is relentlessly hardening.
The inspiration for today’s Substack came from my comments to my friend Sabrina Haake’s Substack today: The Roberts Court created this monster.
Among the many other things which I wrote in the comments I wrote the following:
“Trump has poured the cement of his ruthless dictatorship. It is rapidly setting. Soon it will be as hard as the concrete in Hoover Dam. Before long nobody will bother taking Trump to court. Protests will not only be futile, they will dangerous.”
Then I thought this was a good idea to expand on in my Substack.
Thanks for this, Hal. It appears to this retired physician/psychiatrist that Tramp's time is running out. His Borderline Personality Disorder and its "rejection sensitivity" is forcing him into ever more illegal, impulsive, sadistic, and delusional thinking and behavior. This will not end well for him. And, on top of the BPD, he is showing increasing signs of Alzheimer's dementia, also exacerbated by the stress he is causing himself from the BPD defenses. He has painted himself into a corner and there is no sane way out. Maybe Carville is right. Have a blessed day, Gregg.