Of course, this is not a surprise. It started on Day One, when Trump pardoned the J6ers and showed how things ‘should’ be, hideous or not. He chose a ‘cabinet’ by their dedication to him and him alone, who had no experience in how to do their particular jobs. Now, we’re to the point that Trump is absolutely losing it. By the time of this post, we’ll likely know what has happened in Iran. [Edit: Nothing. Whew.] With appreciation for Raw Story:
President Donald Trump’s presidency has hit a breaking point, an analyst said on Monday. The New Republic‘s editor Michael Tomasky described how Trump’s plummeting economy and rising prices of oil amid the Iran war have revealed how out of touch the president has been with Americans and their growing concerns.
“The presidency of Donald Trump is now officially in collapse,” Tomasky wrote. “His war is … not exactly a disaster, but it sure isn’t the cakewalk he envisioned when he sprang it on the American people and the world with no notice on February 28. His firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi because she wasn’t sycophantic enough indicates a man who is utterly incapable of understanding anything about how democracy is supposed to work. His economy is a wreck and may well get worse. His proposed budget, especially the half-trillion-dollar increase to the Pentagon, is wildly out of whack with the priorities of the public.”
May get worse? More like it *will* get worse because of the war, at the moment. Who knows what will come next? He doesn’t see this. He doesn’t see anything that competes with his worldview. He believes everything is just grand, because it is … with him. It isn’t with us. His ‘cabinet’ is no help, but then we didn’t expect anything from them in the first place. Congress? Well, we won’t get started on that, because it could fill a novel.
Trump’s most recent moves show how his presidency “is in total free fall.” “But on top of all that, Trump’s purchase on reality, tenuous at the best of times, is slipping fast,” Tomasky explained. The president’s logic for military action in Iran could also lead to further, more serious problems for the United States.
“I also never understood why anyone believed that he wouldn’t start dumb wars if the circumstances, in his mind, warranted doing so,” Tomasky wrote. “The one fundamental fact about Donald Trump is, as my late friend and great Trump chronicler Wayne Barrett famously put it, he’ll say whatever he needs to say to wriggle through the next 10 minutes.
Sounds about right. It’s *always* for him, first and foremost. Everything else is negligible. Everything else is incidental compared to what he wants. He’ll do just about anything to get out of being responsible. As a small example, he’s always talking about his ridiculous ballroom because it will be a gift to the American people. Nah. Pretty words, no substance. Anyone who is still believing him by this time needs their head checked. Yes, that’s rude, but serious, too.
He said what he said about wars to get elected. Period. Anyone who believed otherwise was, frankly, an idiot. And so now here we are, with Trump mocking Allah and likely this week to commit acts defined as war crimes under the Geneva Convention.”
“A loyal army of followers, a huge disinformation network, and a party of soul-selling cowards can crowd out facts for a long time,” Tomasky added. “But eventually, reality catches up. It’s finally happening. I’d say we should celebrate. But there now arises the question of how he’ll react as reality closes in on him. I fear we haven’t begun to see the worst.”
That’s a discouraging thought. We haven’t seen the worst. What’s next? Is our country collapsing into chaos? Yes, this was facetious, except it’s possible. It’s not probable, at least not yet. But we see “it” getting worse day by day, and he doesn’t have much of a mind left. We can be sure he doesn’t notice. We can only sit and watch. Where do we go now?
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