“At Long last, Sir, Have You Left No Sense of Decency?”

The Trump Aftermath to Rob Reiner and Wife's Tragic Death 

Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Sunday evening concerning the deaths:

A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS."

Maybe this will be the watershed moment that all will see Trump's madness and own grandiose DERANGEMENT. 

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Here is a look back to a time when there was another *demagogue who had "No Sense of Decency".

 The McCarthy era may well have faded in our collective memory, but it’s important to understand how it unfolded and the impact it had on America. As the philosopher George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

An American Hero
Joe Welch - The man that
 Stood up to McCarthy

NPR: As presidential historian Jon Meacham told NBC News in May 2018, Sen. Joe McCarthy "was never president" or nearly as powerful a figure as Trump, but McCarthyism is "the clearest analogy we have." 

Google AI: The parallels between disgraced Senator Joseph McCarthy and Donald Trump include populist, confrontational styles, unsubstantiated attacks on opponents and the press, exploiting fear, and a key connection through advisor Roy Cohn, who mentored Trump after working for McCarthy. Both are seen as "bullies" who conflate dissent with disloyalty and use finger-pointing over solutions. Trump's villainous immigrants, transgenders in the bath room, fake news, fraudulent elections.  

The History: In the spring of 1954, then powerful / feared Senator Joseph R. McCarthy picked a fight with the U.S. Army, charging lax security at a top-secret army facility.

The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case. At a session on June 9, 1954, McCarthy charged that one of Welch's attorneys had ties to a Communist organization. As an amazed [very new] television audience looked on, Welch responded with the immortal lines that ultimately ended McCarthy's career: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?"

President Trump, Have you no sense of decency? 

Trump’s post drew fierce criticism online from both Democratic and Republican politicians.

 
Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia:

The Republican was once one of Trump’s fiercest allies in Congress. Now one of his strongest critics, said, “This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies.”

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*Demagogues are unique to democracies, as they require freedoms such as those of speech, assembly, and the press in order to make their case to an audience. Part of what makes the combination of democracy and demagoguery so volatile and dangerous is that a demagogue may convince voters within a democracy to transform their system of government into a totalitarian state. Put differently, a democracy’s freedoms can theoretically be misused to undo those very freedoms through legitimate, rights-based processes.