THE GULF OF AMERICA

Here's what should happen in the matter of immigration, but probably won't:

Trump needs to order a complete ground-stop on all round-ups of illegal immigrants, with the possible exception of violent criminals who also happen to be in this country illegally.

It's time to have that national debate on the past and future of immigration, leading at long last to Congressional legislation and a triumph of cold logic over super-heated emotion.

Given the uproar of protest against the imperial tactics of ICE, this is the only reasonable thing to do.

But who said this country is in the thrall of reason?

It is, instead, in the thrall of an ignorant crazy man who also happens to be a vindictive thug.

The guardrails have all been replaced by ranks of cheering sycophants. Nobody has a say on how this country should be operated unless they've already taken up residence in Donald Trump's poop cave. And there's not of a lot of difference of opinion coming from that redolent location.

Trump is not just a naked emperor, the man is positively inside-out.

But he knows he's not. He knows he's just fine, okay? He won a landslide victory at the polls, the result of which is that he's got an irresistible mandate to do whatever he might possibly think of doing.

Period. The end. Full stop.

It doesn't matter what fetid nonsense oozes from the haunted palace of his fever-baked skull. His will be done.

Trump is convinced that criticism from the national media is by definition illegal and must be put down. Jail, deport, or execute his detractors. That's what god clearly wants.

Only federal judges dare attempt to contain him, but unfortunately it's only a matter of time before Trump's rants against those critters will trigger his Brown Shirts to act on his behalf (if not on his specific orders).

We may soon be nostalgic for the time when murdering judges only happened in failed drug-peddling nations run by cartels.

Trump's preferred hatchet men were literally culled from prisons by presidential pardon and declared patriotic heroes by the massively delusional f-head of America.

Those guys owe the man, big time.

Elsewhere, the President's ineffective legal counsel, Emil Bove, is on a one-stop express to SCOTUSville. More long-lasting fallout from the detonation of Trump's atomic power grab.

Meanwhile, at the center of the country: a void, an emptiness, a mathematical null-set.

Donald Trump is the Gulf of America.