HMPRESENTLY: White Noise

They’re all over the place, it may seem, at times… zealots… fanatically committed folks, stirring things up with political and religious dogma.

Beliefs are just fine, as long as they’re not getting way out of hand, like when some politicians are thinking physicians should face life in prison, or even the death penalty, for aborting a fetus, and even suggesting harsh punishment for women taking abortion pills.

Can you imagine, in some prison, one inmate asking another, “What are you in for?” And the other inmate, a doctor, replying, “For medically removing a fetus.”

Or some other inmate explaining, “For swallowing an abortion pill.”

Speaking of zealots, at the recent CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), Donald Trump Jr. was being interviewed by former Trump administration chief strategist Steve Bannon.

“There was a time when these two men were seen – by critics and supporters alike – as dangerous provocateurs. Spellbound fans would hang on their every word; indignant journalists would live-tweet their speeches and interviews. Now their rhetoric about ‘deconstructing the administrative state’ and ‘draining the swamp’ just sounded like white noise…” according to an article in The Atlantic.

A number of media reported CPAC seeming somewhat low energy, apparently with fewer attendees than usual.

CPAC being described as ‘low energy’ seems so ironic, since Don Jr.’s father, former President Trump, has been known to use the very same words, when he’s describing political opponents, reporters and others he doesn’t particularly care for. ‘Low energy’.

‘White noise’… now, there’s a couple of words the former president may want to use in his own rhetoric, maybe when someone like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who may be running for president in 2024, or former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, who is running for president, are out and about on the speaking circuit.

One can imagine Mr. Trump saying something like, “It’s so disgusting… all their stupid, white noise!”

Harvey Radin

Harvey Radin

Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.