Do you think the Trump phenomenon is like a boil coming to a head...

[LAS14]

.... and that we'll be able to lance it in 2018/2020 and re-discover the America that gave us Obama?

[MLAA]

1. Lordy (to quote Comey), I hope so.

[lunasun]

2. I dunno once the evil is let out. Hard to put it back in a box ask Pandora .

[gibraltar72]

3. More like

a pionidal cyst.

[Lint Head]

4. But first we need to hose down the puss.

[greymattermom]

5. How about

a sebaceous cist? Let the fat ooze out.

[ProudLib72]

6. No, I think it's more like tertiary syphilis

The entire body politic is infected. There are chancres of racism popping up all over the country. A massive genital wart occupies the Oval Office. The major organs are shutting down.

Unfortunately, the Obama era was latent syphilis, where the disease exists but there are few if any visible signs.

[hexola]

7. Well its not quite Romania 1989

...yet...

[marybourg]

9. My Romanian friend is starting to have

nostalgic thoughts about returning to Romania.

[hexola]

11. My Romainian friend is huge Trump-head and former Securitate

Somehow he escaped before they killed everyone - Fuck him!

[marybourg]

14. Huh. My Romanian friend came here on a lottery

visa in the early 90's and eventually opened a health care service company of great value to the local elderly community.

[TwistOneUp]

8. More like...

A head coming to a boil.

I only hope I'm watching TV when he explodes.

[annabanana]

10. lol.. Welcome to DU. . . . . n/t

[NewJeffCT]

12. I keep picturing

a scene like "A Few Good Men" with Trump on the stand like Jack Nicholson

Mueller, "I want the truth!"
Trump, "You can't handle the truth... <insert blather about Russia and Putin and Clinton>"

Mueller, "Did you order the Russian Hack?"
Trump, "You're goddamn right I did!"

[LAS14]

15. Clever. ;-) nt

[Orsino]

13. Trump burns bridges. He will always fuck you over to keep himself afloat.

While this is becoming apparent to the country at large, and an electoral comeuppance seems likely, we're also in a race with creeping authoritarianism that, unchecked, could install him or a a permanent GOPish dynasty.