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Trump lashes out as his poll numbers slip.
The demagogue deplorables embrace
increasingly, is seen to lose his grip
on anyone beyond his basest base.
In Phoenix, he's defending Charlottesville
as if the West were part of the Old South
encouraging the Klan to hate, and kill.
But always, it's their hands; he's just the mouth.
Campaigning for the office that he's got
orating to his ever-dwindling mob
as if he could become what he is not,
a grown-up, adequate to do the job.
Despite the knowledge Pence is next in line,
Americans wish Trump would just resign.