Donald Trump is an existential threat to the United States

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25. The biological metaphor

The individual is an external symptom of a systemic infection of the fungal type. Fungi develop in the vacuum left by a weakened immune system or by the damage caused by heavy doses of antibiotics. The causes of this infection is therefore systemic and rather complex if the metaphor were to be applied to sociology, I personally think that the rampant dictatorship of religion in this country accounts for most of the damage due to the deficit in knowledge it invariably needs to survive.
I found this metaphor so apt that a few weeks after the individual announced he would run for office, I named him the "Candida Albicans", a play on the words candida(te) and albi (white).
The danger faced by this country is also contained in the metaphor. It is literally infected on a deeper, albeit less spectacular, level than the pustules, rash and other unpleasant external manifestations it displays. The prognosis is not very good either. When the infection is deep and due to systemic problems, the treatment can last a very long time. In some cases, the rest of the patient’s life...