Under-the-Bus Throwing

Versions of this idiom are used a lot lately. Trump’s allies and underlings try to protect their vainglorious boss and he tries to protect himself. Among the new conservatives, because character and integrity are non-starters, it is a sport and Ayn Rand is their honorary cheerleader and babe.

But “under-the-bus throwing” doesn’t roll off the tongue as one would like. Let’s just call it “treason” since it’s the elevation of self above everything anyway, including one’s country, and Trump is a fitting master, a hideous ethical black hole and charlatan. The country is there to serve him.

Under the bus it goes, if it suits. Remember, a Randian hero would rather blow something up than have it not be an appropriate testament to their greatness. Under the bus we all go.