We Must Not Allow an Imposter Gap

I think we should look at this from the military point of view.

― General "Buck" Turgidson

Four centuries ago, Russia experienced a decade of anarchy citizens would soon call "The Time of Troubles."

Cossacks roamed the countryside, looting and pillaging, while millions of peasants mobbed the lawless cities, searching for food. The nation's government, minus a legitimate leader (the czar had died without a successor), collapsed. A third of the population died or were murdered.

Meanwhile, conspiracy theories about the czardom proliferated—as did pretenders to the throne. 

Russians called the many imposters "False Dmitrys" (the real Dmitry should have succeeded his father, but was assassinated as a child). 

At least four False Dmitrys gained loyalists; and one, with the help of Polish Jesuits, was actually crowned czar on his promise to save the country. 

False Dmitry I, so called, reigned for eleven whole months, before being killed in a bloody coup. Wearing a jester's cap, his body was put on display in a Moscow square before being burned. His ashes were then shot from a cannon aimed at Poland.

Flash forward four centuries to our own Time of Troubles. 

Conspiracy theories proliferate and we have False Donald, our very our own pretender to the throne.

While news organizations and pundits like Rachel Maddow and Steve Schmidt issue dire warnings, I'm unalarmed.

The way out of our mess is simple: every American named Donald Trump should declare he is the real president. 

We would have not one, but 21 pretenders to the throne.

After all, the Russians had four. Shouldn't the US have more?

We must not allow an imposter gap!

HAT TIP: Ann Ramsey inspired this post. Spasiba.