That nation-wide exhalation of relief, the
euphoria of a wish finally granted, yet how
were we to know in the moment that it was
premature, that the object of our disgust and
rejection had yet other methods and means
to prolong his disastrous stay as the head of
government of a country whose pride in self
for its history, culture, values and geography
watched in dismay as it was peremptorily
disassembled, leaving its proud whole in a
state of disengaged parts, the past tarnished
and the future aspiring a complete dissolution
of nationhood. All accomplished through the
Machiavellian machinations of a psychopath
mistaken for a competent administrator who
was functionally incapable, a prisoner of his
own character, a charming, persuasive and
charismatic manipulator whose vanity and
theatrical flair fascinated then repulsed those
who saw beyond the veneer. A remorseless
demonizer, flagrantly exercising the power of
condemnation of critics, silencing voices of
reason and doubt, churning the status of a proud
nation from a secure law-abiding homeland
to one of threats and violence enacted by the
introduction of unsuitable candidates arriving
on its shores bringing instability, tribalism
religious sectarianism to roil the social order
all countenanced through the whims of a closet
racist portrayed as a humanitarian, one whose
grandiose self-esteem inoculated him against
the will of the people whom he betrayed.
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