Dear 45,

Your number’s up. From here on, it’s downhill for you, downhill to the bottom where you rightfully belong.

What number? 45, of course! It’s provable by simple math.

Let’s do the math together, Sir!

There are nine investigations currently under way about your finances.

Forty-five divided by nine equals five (45/9 = 5), and we know that there are five key traits of your supporters: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201712/analysis-trump-supporters-has-identified-5-key-traits

1. Authoritarian personality syndrome (the advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom)

 

2. Social dominance orientation (a structure in which purportedly high-status group crave dominance over the low-status ones for their perceived self-interest)

 

3. Prejudice (appeal to bigotry)

 

4. Lack of Intergroup Contact (racial and ethnic isolation of whites who have not interacted with other groups)

 

5. Relative Deprivation (the belief that they have been deprived of something they are entitled to, typically based on a skewed conception of what one is entitled to)

I don’t list these in order of their importance, because they’re all important. They explain you, but they also explain why you’re going to lose in 2020.

The vast majority of Americans care highly about personal freedom and are not racists. The vast majority of Americans don’t seek dominance over sub-groups of Americans that they perceive are lower status. The vast majority of Americans have not been living in racial and ethnic isolation. There’s five!

The vast majority of Americans feel you’ve cheated your way to wealth: cheated on taxes, cheated your workers, cheated your contractors, cheated those who gave to your (not) charitable organizations. There’s nine!

Ergo, you’re on your way out. In 2020, we will be out to vote and by voting demonstrate that you are unacceptable as president.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger