My theory is similar, and it goes like this:
Every single thing he did in his entire life was calculating to make him money, fame, and power at the expense of other people. This started when he young: dodging the draft in the Vietnam War, cheating contractors, and defrauding his “university” students.
Predictably, it extended into his presidency: conning the lesser educated white nationalists into believing that he along could eliminate liberalism and make American great again.
His friendship with Putin (arguably the world’s most ruthless dictator) showed our nation and the rest of the world how little regard he had for honesty and decency, and how he adored the absolute power enjoyed my Putin and the other world dictators.
Then came his claims that the 2020 election was stolen, the violence of January 6th, his interest in annexing Canada and Greenland, and his economic policies that can only prove devastating to the United States in the long-term (long after he’s gone).
It all comes down to one guiding principle: Trump will do whatever’s good for Trump in that moment of time, regardless of how destructive it is to all others.
A friend from Texas writes: It’s been an interesting week! A lot to reflect on. And Texas seems to be the epicenter. Folks are pretty flabbergasted over the defeat of all statewide Republican candidates (including state supreme court justices) and the election of a Democratic party-controlled state house.
Yes, Texas blew everyone’s mind. I think what the GOP experienced was a double-whammy if you will.
Consumer prices are high, due at least in part to Trump’s inane and illegal war in Iran. This is impacting the lives of working class Americans.
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I’m pleased to be able to report that many people still have a conscience, which causes them to reject the GOP’s cruelty, dishonesty, dismissal of science, and criminality.
As shown here, white men, especially uneducated white men, are still not able to see that Trump is terrible for America.
If the last two years didn’t change that, it appears that nothing will.
The vast majority of Americans are thrilled that the midterms brought us the “blue tsunami,” but there are a couple of things that don’t really add up. You may have noticed that:
The U.S. wants a random alcoholic Fox News “journalist’s” head on the plate for having orchestrated the war in Iran, when all he was doing was pursuing his loyalty to Donald Trump, the man who started this asinine and grossly illegal war.
There seems to be no effort to cause Trump, who tried to violently overthrow the U.S. federal government, to face accountability for his treasonous acts.
What’s up with the media? Is there a concerted effort to avoid the facts? What’s the problem with honesty, and telling Americans the truth? Isn’t this the clearest instance of gaslighting in our history? Are we now trying to pretend that Trump never existed?
If such a landslide victory against a would-be autocrat had happened anywhere else on Earth, that traitor would be in prison now, in most cases facing execution.
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