You can’t ‘normalize’ something that is this abnormal

In the movie “Young Frankenstein,” Igor is sent by Dr. Frankenstein to the Brain Bank to retrieve the brain of a brilliant scientist to be implanted into the creature the doctor is building, but Igor drops it and it shatters, so he takes instead a brain labeled ABNORMAL. He thinks it’s a name…A. B. Normal.

In the movie, this is pretty funny; in real life, not so much.

In the real world, the news media is Dr. Frankenstein. Instead of planting an abnormal brain in a monster’s head, they have helped a man who already had an abnormal brain to emerge as the monster who will soon be president of the United States.

And now, to cover up their mistake, they are collectively trying to “normalize” him, but I refuse to play along because it can’t be done, and I don’t think the media should try.

Whether you voted for him or not, Donald J. Trump is a shallow, vacuous, narcissistic, misogynistic, xenophobic, racist con man tax evading sexual predator who’s also a pathological liar with dangerous, Fascist-inspired ideas and a probable mental illness. He has admitted to sexual assault and at one time was facing court proceedings related to alleged rape, fraud and bribery.

Did you see "normal" in there anywhere?

He doesn’t know the first thing about government, American or world history or international affairs and doesn’t seem to want to learn, because he thinks he has “a good brain” and already knows more about [ insert subject here ] than the [ insert experts here ] do.

I suspect his “good brain” came off the same shelf that A. B. Normal’s did.

When Barack Obama was elected, I cut ties with an organization whose president declared, “Obama is not my president,” so I vowed never to say that about Trump. He IS going to be my president because he was elected and because this is where I live.

However, I refuse to “normalize” him because he’s not normal, and having him and his daughters in the White House will not be normal, and appointing crazy people to cabinet positions is not normal, and making racism acceptable is not normal, and making a profit from the presidency is not normal.

None of this is normal and it never will be, so please, for the love of whatever god you worship, please stop trying to normalize this man. Instead, we need to watch him very closely, look behind the stupid, childish tweets to what’s really going on, and make sure that everybody else knows what’s happening.

Trump apparently has no world view – at least none that lasts more than a few hours – but his close advisers do and it’s frighteningly un-American. These people have to be stopped. This country is better than this. We are normal.

At least, I thought we were.