"The Florida event was the first of four rallies in Trump and O’Reilly’s “History Tour.” The next event is Sunday in Orlando, where ticket sales have also reportedly been slow. The pair wrap up in Houston and Dallas next weekend."
See a mostly spent last-gasp firecracker, fizzling about on the cold, hard, unforgiving ground.
You wrote a eloquent line . But to me a firecracker tends to portray positive purpose, a potential explosiveness.
Might I submit my interpretation, borrowing from your wit but staying with the munitions subject?
Like a half packed lady finger subversively wrapped in a M-80's package now showing it's true self, in a last gasp, spent and fizzling about on the cold, hard, unforgiving ground.
This of course to the additional observation of frump as an empty, phony vessel of a fake idol and criminal tool for many.