Recently, when I step out of donnieland and into the real American world, I see a country and a population so stressed, stretched, underfunded, in debt, underhoused, couch surfing, homeless, misled, manipulated, hungry, harassed, hopeless, persecuted, targeted, redlined, unhappy, asthmatic, obese, diabetic, devoid of healthcare and acutely aware that a tiny cadre of their fellows have almost all of the wealth of the land, that something like the French Revolution seems to be inevitable.
donnie ends up playing Louis XVI.
I think Melania is too sly to play Marie Antoinette, so she fades into the glooms of time and space.
Her kid suffers an unknown fate, but he is of the Court, and the Court goes the way that Courts always go in times like these.
So, you guess how that works out.
In the early stages there will be some obvious parallels from 1789 and immediately subsequent years.
Steve Bannon will play an unconvincing Danton.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets to be Robespierre.
And Elon is the last Court Jester.
I haven't thought about this deeply enough to flesh out the rest of the players, but trust me, they are all lined up and ready to go.
Once all that works its way through the system - serial coups and pseudo-judicial assassinations, blood flowing ankle deep on the Washington Mall and all the other requisite attendant theatrics, I think all bets for historic precedents are off and we'll have to wait for the Six O'clock News every night.
Or Fox and Friends.
To flesh out each day's twists and turns - and horrors.
And Fox is probably where our Napoleon lurks, an unheralded, unheard-of unknown.
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