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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump. " George Will editorial
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-a-misery-it-must-be-to-be-donald-trump/2019/01/18/d0e05eea-1a82-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html?utm_term=.5504bf3b316fThe shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen
By his comportment, the president benefits his media detractors with serial vindications of their disparagements. They, however, have sunk to his level of insufferable self-satisfaction by preening about their superiority to someone they consider morally horrifying and intellectually cretinous. For most Americans, President Trumps expostulations are audible wallpaper, always there but not really noticed. Still, the ubiquity of his outpourings in the medias outpourings gives American life its current claustrophobic feel. This results from many journalists considering him an excuse for a four-year sabbatical from thinking about anything other than the shiny thing that mesmerizes them by dangling himself in front of them.
Dislike of him should be tempered by this consideration: He is an almost inexpressibly sad specimen. It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump. He seems to have as many friends as his pluperfect self-centeredness allows, and as he has earned in an entirely transactional life. His historical ignorance deprives him of the satisfaction of working in a house where much magnificent history has been made. His childlike ignorance preserved by a lifetime of single-minded self-promotion concerning governance and economics guarantees that whenever he must interact with experienced and accomplished people, he is as bewildered as a kindergartener at a seminar on string theory.
Which is why this fountain of self-refuting boasts (I have a very good brain) lies so much. He does so less to deceive anyone than to reassure himself. And as balm for his base, which remains oblivious to his likely contempt for them as sheep who can be effortlessly gulled by preposterous fictions. The tungsten strength of his supporters loyalty is as impressive as his indifference to expanding their numbers.
Either the electorate, bored with a menu of faintly variant servings of boorishness, or the 22nd Amendment will end this, our shabbiest but not our first shabby presidency. As Mark Twain and fellow novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside together one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked, Do you think it will stop? Twain replied, It always has.
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"It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump. " George Will editorial (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Jan 2019
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dalton99a
(81,455 posts)1. Great piece
on the piece of shit
MLAA
(17,282 posts)2. A lot of pretty words to say impotus is an ignorant narcissist and always the dumbest in the room
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)3. OOOOOOUUUUUCH!
I never, ever in my life thought I'd enjoy a George Will piece.
UTUSN
(70,683 posts)4. One of my life's great ironies, ending up with George F***ing WILL on my side!1
Yaas, he who got Jimmy CARTER's debate prep books as a dirty trick and who did not report it to the FBI but used it to prep RAYGUN with. Well, WILL, I won't welcome you to the light, have not been waiting for you. If you help with the current bane of all of our lives, fine. You didn't help with the previous incarnations.
hibbing
(10,096 posts)5. George, no offense meant, but go jerk off to Ronnie n/t
dweller
(23,628 posts)6. almost as bad as
as the misery of awakening to another day and seeing donald trump...
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