Has America Reached the Trump Tipping Point?

Malcolm Gladwell wrote about tipping points recently; his work focused on this thesis: “Epidemics don’t build gradually and steadily; they grow and reach a boiling point or critical mass, at which point they explode and turn into an epidemic. That threshold is called the tipping point.”

I am less interested in products and the success of business as Gladwell is; no, today’s pandemic is much bigger than an epidemic and my focus is this: When does this nation reach the point when an overwhelming majority of American citizens realize that the Trump Administration, and for that matter his Republican enablers, are in the words of Mark Twain — rapscallions.

If you are unfamiliar with Huckleberry Finn’s adventures down the Mississippi, then you may not recognize the word rapscallions. Let me enlighten my readers. A rapscallion is a flim-flam man, a con artist, a selfish blowhard…in a word Trump.

If you are watching the news, reading the papers, checking out books or anything that does NOT involve Fox News, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh or Brietbart and its ilk, then you are patently aware that Trump has been a failure at most every endeavor that his father’s money bought him. Casinos. Airlines. Universities. Various products including steaks, booze, and fat ties made in China. All failures. As former Republican strategist…