Donald Trump’s Helter Skelter
These words are, of course, part of history. Murderer Charles Manson had prophesied Helter Skelter as an apocalyptic war that would arise. Manson was a cult leader, a murderer, and a thug with a mesmerizing hold over his followers, whom he called ‘the family.”
There is, of course, the book Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Manson and ensured he was sent to prison for life. I’ve written before about the similarities between Manson and Donald Trump in how they worked their followers, making sure their followers did their dirty work for them.
But there are other similarities between the two. One of them is innocence. Much of the sixties had been about peace, love, protests, and great music. The Manson murders shattered the myth of innocence of so many, and to this day, The Helter Skelter murders were widely considered by many the day the music died.
Likewise, when Donald Trump was elected, many considered it the time they lost their innocence about our country and how it worked. The country had elected a maniac for the White House. Many people were crushed. Many wept. I did. You did, I’m sure. But out of the darkness, we found light and prevented Donald from getting into office a second time.
There is yet another similarity between the two men, and that is — their prophecies. Manson’s prophecies of Helter-Skelter never came to pass. Of course, because they couldn’t. It was the ravings of a madman who ruled his “family” by fear and promises of a coming war that did not exist and would never materialize.
And like Manson, Trump is doing much the same. His calls for protests, his anger, his prediction that the country CAN’T TAKE any more of this. The opposite is true. The country has never been so strong.
And as Maga melts down, predicting the end of the world if Trump goes to prison, let us pity them in a way, for they don’t know what we do. Our country is a fortress. And it’s one that believes in the rule of law.
What’s happening now is to America’s benefit. It will strengthen America. It will show people that nobody is above the law. It’s OK to be happy about this indictment. It’s good to let out the anger many have felt toward Trump.
He and Manson are two halves of the same hole –a hole of rage and falsities. Manson died in prison, died a failure. Some of his cultists remain imprisoned. Whatever Donald Trump’s ultimate fate is, there is little doubt it will share some similarities with that of Manson’s.
Trump will never admit the truth. He will keep on trying to bullshit people. His name in history will be that of an evil man who briefly commanded a small but evil cult, ready and willing and able to do his bidding. And like Manson before him, Trump will go down in history as a failure.
