DONALD TRUMP AND COMEUPPANCE
©Wendell Griffen, 2024 COMEUPPANCE (noun): a punishment or fate that someone deserves: “he got his comeuppance.” Synonyms: due, retribution, requital, recompense, just deserts, deserved fate, due reward, just punishment, castigation, wrath, chastisement. Beginning shortly after 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on September 10, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gave former U.S. President Donald Trump what one of my Arkansas lawyer friends would call “a stand-up ass whipping.” People saw it happen live, across the United States and throughout the world. Harris deployed her skills and discipline as a seasoned prosecutor to cut through Trump’s façade and expose his most unpleasant characteristics. Dishonesty. Bigotry. Cultural and political incompetence. Emotional immaturity. Vicious idiocy. Sociopathy. Mental clumsiness and laziness. By the time their 90 minute “debate” ended, Donald Trump’s posture was slumped. He had y