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July 14th, 2018, 02:12 AM | #1791 | ||
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"Personality disorder" might be a diagnosis, but it its not impairing his function then its hard to call it mental illness. I've worked with plenty of obsessive types, and they're far better at all kinds of precise things than I am. Quote:
I think Trump is a tremendous talent. He is the only candidate I've ever seen talk his way into the Presidency. Even allowing for dirty tricks, its a huge achievement-- the guy has just one trick, but its a good trick. He's a fraud and a traitor, of course-- don't think I'm going soft on him. But he's not crazy and he is plenty talented. |
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July 14th, 2018, 06:35 AM | #1794 | |
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The New York charity lawsuit is a separate action under state jurisdiction. I am hearing that Trump, Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka have all been recommended for criminal charges. AS for the DNC lawsuit, I would be more sympathetic if their network security not been childishly inept. They could have been hacked by Nigerian treasury officials. |
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July 14th, 2018, 11:47 AM | #1796 | |
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Trump couldn't have been elected thirty years ago, though - Bush Sr. had a good laugh when he was told that Trump lobbied to become his VP back in 1988. That he blew right through the safeguards and checks and balances without any effort and planning, shows just how rotten and precarious the democratic pillars in the United States have become. He's nowhere near as smart and patient as Hitler, Franco, or Mussolini, and yet he became President with relative ease. What should keep you up at night is not Trump, but the likely smarter, more patient Republican who will succeed him after the middling interregnum of another ineffective Democrat in the 2020ies. Trump may be America's Wilhelm II, but that successor may become America's Hitler. Except that Hitler never had 10.000 nuclear warheads at his command. |
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July 14th, 2018, 12:19 PM | #1797 | ||
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IMO that's a very bad idea. Calling something a "disease" which doesn't impair function begs the question "why?" The world has plenty of completely sane, really unpleasant people. They don't have "a disease". They just suck as human beings. You do want a mentally healthy cardiologist. You may not want a nice one, but you do want someone who is responding to objective reality, not personal demons. One might add that we can insist on better behavior from sane people who are just unpleasant. The "asshole surgeon" is very much a reality and a tradition of the specialty, and because these folks are sane but just unpleasant, we can say "hey, its no longer OK to heap abuse on your residents" Quote:
Trump, uniquely, read the mood of country differently than his competitors, and saw opportunity where no one else did. That's highly adaptive. He didn't win because of some random fluke. He won because he made his opportunity and found his allies, and this was very much his design. I believe him when he raged at Steve Bannon-- Bannon's departure hasn't made one iota of difference in Trump's ability to talk to his audience. Absolutely true. Which is to the point-- Trump read the changing public mood better than other people did. He also changed the public mood. There's a line about what a "demagogue" is -- someone who "radicalizes their followers", Trump did more than a little of that. But mostly, he just read a mood which others ignored. He turned the Republican Party 180 degrees on things like trade; that's his read and his politics. He also built a personal brand to exploit this sentiment. Other cranky yappers have made themselves some money talking to Trump's cranky fans-- Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck. Trump saw that he could go much, much further There's a line of Danton's de l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace that describes Trump. Obama may have talked about "the audacity of hope" -- but he is in fact a very middle of the road and personally conservative man, a norm-supporter, not a rule breaker. The most "audacious" thing about Obama is that he thought a black man could be President-- beyond that, he's as conventional as a university President. Trump, by contrast, is an awful person with shabby ambitions who soils everyone who embraces him, unless they're already pretty shabby themselves. He's in his element with other brutal misogynists, and for all his railing against Latinos and Africans, he's very much a character like Mugabe or Duterte, though Mugabe dresses better . . . Trump is not our misfortune; rather he's the guy who looked at the inflamed abscess of American political life and said to himself "oh I like this, let's have more of that". Last edited by deepsepia; July 14th, 2018 at 12:56 PM.. |
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Excellent analysis. The 62 million disgruntled citizens who elected Trump won't go away, if and when he does. The issues that make these people angry still persist. There is a cancer metastasizing in the American body politic and it's been growing for a long, long time, with the earliest cancerous cells reaching back to the very founding of the country. That cancer doesn't go away just by surgically removing one single metastasis. The country's remaining greatest hope for a turnaround may be its youth. Unfortunately it is a generation that may be the "wokest" ever, but is much too busy spending hours on instagram and snapchat every day to get their behinds to the voting booth once every two years. |
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