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Trump Is Jay Gatsby

Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 7:07 PM EST - Item ID: 13

In "The Great Gatsby", narrator Nick Carraway describes his attraction to the main character in the novel: "When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever: I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionabilty which is dignified under the name of ‘creative temperment'--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again...

Perhaps Nick Carraway is representative of the disillusioned "Silent Majority" wishing to "Make America Great Again." Donald Trump personifies a modern-day, extremely brash Jay Gatsby, clawing feverishly for that elusive "green light" at the end of Daisy Buchanan's beckoning dock. Is it not better to place your chips on hopes and dreams rather than certain nightmares? Those of us who buy into Trump's vision, nearly to the point of blind trust, are loudly professing our disgust with the current immoral situations that taint and threaten our blueprint of the American dream:

1. A world in which police are reluctant to protect citizens (and themselves) for fear of reprimands and indictments.

2. An atmosphere in which politicians are ridiculed for uttering the simple truth.

3. A stage on which extremists are permitted to gesticulate and spew their venom via freedoms initially formulated by the much-maligned "angry and wimpering" white male.

4. A media more concerned with those nauseating, idiotic Kardashians than with the welfare of its heroic war veterans.

5. A border seeping a cesspool of criminals due to weak immigration laws.

6. A President who makes devious nuclear deals with Satan's minions.

Carraway further states: "...Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams, that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men." The "foul dust" floating in the wake of Trump's dreams consists of a biased, unfair, unimaginative media and his fellow dull, donor-driven candidates. But Mr. Trump, as Nick said to Jay Gatsby: "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together!"

So, I will happily bide my time dancing foolishly under Mr. Trump's brightly-striped tents and festive lights. Drawn to the man and his message like a moth to a flame.

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