Trump in Washington

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The Banality of Donald Trump. "Donald Trump has demonstrated consistently, while three hundred thousand people in the U.S. died and millions became sick, that he couldn’t be bothered.*

How did America come to elect a man so unable to manage our nation? A person incapable of thinking of others. How did the conservative media machine make a qualified woman unqualified and actually hated. How did hatred of immigrants become a central selling point along with a barrier wall become a goal of America - a land of immigrants. How did hate and white supremacy come to raise its ugly head so high in modern America.

Trump wanted too to control justice itself, thankfully our judges still follow the law and their conscience. Senator McConnell and Republicans pushed through judges they thought would bend in the favor of injustice. They were wrong.

Why do Americans enthusiastically cheer a president who appears to believe his own lies. A person who has pseudologia phantastica. So many lies are they still counting them? Thousands. And they continue still for losing fair and square in our democracy cannot be accepted. Democracy doesn't appeal to Trump and his kind.

How could Americans jeopardize their own health by imitating a man who predicted the Coronavirus would disappear as if waving your hand had magical power. Why do so many Americans follow a person who uses his office to enrich his family while taking Healthcare away from the needy American. Emolument took on new meaning under Trump.

Do republicans kowtow to a president's conspiracy nonsense only because they fear a challenge from someone who may be even more amoral a cult follower. Are they this morally bankrupt. Vice President Pence looks at Trump like some teenager admiring their idol, any wonder why Trump selected him.

How did our religious and fundamentalists come to admire and cheer a leader who breaks up families and cages children. Certainly no religious person or moral person or Christian person could vote for these policies. Could they.

Consider too media sources such as FOX OAN and Newsmax, these too are anti-democracy. Are there that many Americans who can accept their distorted biased viewpoints? Given the fake news on each and even the ads which are often lies - it would seem so. Media sources like these make Banana Republic News look honorable.

What have we learned. Where to now. We learned that democracy can be challenged. We learned that power and privilege matter more than honor. (See list below.) We learned that one man can lie and cheat and steal and yet if he says things that appeal to certain people and tribes, what he does does not matter. We learned that religious evangelicals are not religious in any sense. We learned that some believe absurd conspiracies without even an iota of evidence. Some will argue that's not true, but the proof is out there should you take the time. Challenge if can. See links below.

Power corrupts and these people demonstrate that fact. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Steve Daines of Montana, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Mike Braun of Indiana, and Senator-elect Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.

'Lest We Forget The Horrors: A Catalog Of Trump’S Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, And Crimes'
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-far-atrocities-1-923

'100 Ways, in 100 Days, that Trump Has Hurt Americans'
www.americanprogress.org/issues/general/news/2017/04/26/431299/100-ways-100-days-trump-hurt-americans/

'Americans’ acceptance of Trump’s behavior will be his vilest legacy'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/26/americans-acceptance-of-trumps-behavior-will-be-his-vilest-legacy

'45 Self-Evident Truths About Donald Trump'
www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/29/trumpology-kruse-45-trump-truths-433455


"What is patriotism? Let us begin with what patriotism is not. It is not patriotic to dodge the draft and to mock war heroes and their families. It is not patriotic to discriminate against active-duty members of the armed forces in one's companies, or to campaign to keep disabled veterans away from one's property. It is not patriotic to compare one's search for sexual partners in New York with the military service in Vietnam that one has dodged. It is not patriotic to avoid paying taxes, especially when American working families do pay. It is not patriotic to ask those working, taxpaying American families to finance one's own presidential campaign, and then to spend their contributions in one's own companies. It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It is not patriotic to cultivate a relationship with Muammar Gaddafi; or to say that Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin are superior leaders. It is not patriotic to call upon Russia to intervene in an American presidential election. It is not patriotic to cite Russian propaganda at rallies." Timothy Snyder 'On Tyranny'


*https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-overlooked-hallmark-of-the-trump-administration-and-other-autocracies

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Too many republicans and followers, "Act in such a way that [Trump} the Fuhrer, if he knew your action, would approve it." Hans Frank, quoted in Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem'

"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness." Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together." Hannah Arendt


"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." George Orwell

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Bye bye Donald.

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'Americans’ acceptance of Trump’s behavior will be his vilest legacy'

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/26/americans-acceptance-of-trumps-behavior-will-be-his-vilest-legacy