Stone cold fact: Donald Trump is a monster. He was a corruption monster walking in the door. Handed power, Trump became an even bigger monster and outright danger to democracy. We The People witnessed this transformation in real time! But, for all its bluster (and the very real dangers it poses), the Trumpenstein monster is remarkably vulnerable. Even as the Trumpenstein roars, having “won” the New Hampshire primary (which measures how a handful of white people think), his vulnerabilities shine even more brightly. Trump’s is a frail, pathological ego made of cheap glass. You don’t need sticks or stones to break it. Mockery itself will do. Wanna kill the Trumpenstein? Mock it to death.

Trump is notoriously thin-skinned. What that actually means is he has no sense of humor. Not every human being has one. The tell if a person has or hasn’t a sense of humor? Their ability to laugh at him or herself. This ability allows people to laugh with others and not merely at others. There’s a huge difference between the two!

Bullies, for example, are good at laughing at other people. But turn the spotlight on them? Their laughter stops. They can’t handle the mockery they turn on other people.

Ironically? Bullies like Trump and his ilk cannot see irony either. You must have a sense of humor to see irony. Without it, irony is just a baffling juxtaposition of information. That’s how Trump sees what people with a sense of humor call “irony”.

There’s a famous moment when Trump’s total lack of a sense of humor played out on camera. Some writers have pointed to this as the triggering moment when Trump declared war on Obama inside his own head.

Trump cannot stand others making jokes about him. He’s happy to mock others – disabled people especially –

But mock him? His blood pressure shoots through the roof and another inadvertent turd piles into his Depends.

He can’t bear it when anyone disagrees with him. Like, say, Nikki Haley continuing to run for POTUS. People poking fun at him? He’s an animal in a cage who can’t get at his tormentors.

But, it’s all he can think about. Trump’s many daddy-didn’t-love-me grievances found lots of company as Trump grew older (without ever growing up). Leaf through Mary Trump’s excellent “Too Much And Never Enough” for ample evidence.

Because Trump’s inability to see irony is ironic itself, everything about Trump becomes that much more ironic. Trump aches for respect he’ll never get. So, instead, he’s bought respect – via corruption and bullying. But, that isn’t actually respect, it’s fear. Not the same thing.

Trump doesn’t care. He can’t differentiate anyway. But, because Trump’s hold is fear, not respect? The instant those in his thrall find something bigger to fear than Trump? They’ll flip on Trump – which is exactly what’s happening in Georgia and DC and New York – and lots of other places where Trump freely and abundantly spread his corruption.

Trump hates those who oppose him – especially if they’re Republicans. But, he knows he can cow them ultimately. Trump flat out fears those who mock him – because he’s lost all ability to make them stop.

As Trump is the glue holding every bit of the Republican Party’s corrupt power grab together, if Trump were to suddenly disappear from the stage – either because he died or became incapacitated – the whole equation changes. It won’t stop the prosecutions – except those focused on Trump. Rather, Trump ceasing to be the lynch pin in everything will expose everything not currently being prosecuted to prosecution.

Trump vanishing would finish the job Trump started – the destruction of the GOP. The factions already despise each other. There’s no kumbaya moment in their future. Rather, they’ll hate each other even more as infidels and apostates. The Democrats won’t need to do a thing.

Between the legal process and Republicans themselves, they will do the Trumpenstein’s bidding.

The biggest irony of all that the Trumpenstein will visit upon his Republican enablers? The counter-reaction and decimation of Republican ranks (lots and lots and lots of Republicans will go to prison for enabling Trump) will cause the very socialization of America that the Trumpenstein’s enabler’s most feared.

There’s a harbinger that all this will indeed come to pass – and that, in shorter order than anyone expects, mockery will slay the Trumpenstein? Comedy Central just made Jon Stewart the new Executive Producer and part time host of The Daily Show through 2025. Most importantly, Stewart or someone exactly like him will be there five nights a week mocking Trump and the GOP relentlessly.

I’m not sure there’s enough popcorn for this.