After sixty years in and around politics I’ve developed a sixth sense.

And my sixth sense tells me the tide is now turning on Trump.

You see, there’s a sleeping giant in America who always remains asleep until some venality becomes so noxious…some action so disrespectful of the common good…some brutality so noisy, that it has no choice but to awaken and roar “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?”

Trump is attacking our most basic civil rights. He baselessly smears and threatens his political opponents. He's blowing up the economy and hasn't done squat to help working people. The Epstein scandal haunts him.

He’s a failing president whose approval ratings are tanking. Like any authoritarian bully throughout history, when Trump feels humiliated, he lashes out.

But what he doesn’t realize is that his authoritarianism and his bullying are beginning to wake up America’s great sleeping giant. 

Millions have hit the streets in protest of this regime. Communities are banding together to protect their immigrant neighbors. Americans are voting with their dollars and boycotting corporations that suck up to Trump. 

Maybe I’m being too optimistic, but I’ve seen a lot. I know the signs.

Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunt destroyed countless careers before the giant roared: “have you no sense of decency?”

The giant roared again after witnessing scenes of civil rights marchers getting clobbered by white supremacists. Congress then passed the Civil Rights Act.

It roared again after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam, finally bringing to an end one of the nation’s costliest, deadliest, and stupidest wars.

It roared at Richard Nixon after he was heard on tape plotting the coverup of Watergate — and forced him to exit the White House by helicopter.

America’s sleeping giant is starting to roar again now — at the tyrant occupying the Oval Office.

And when the giant roars, the good sense of the American people will put an end to whatever it was that awakened it.