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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Ravings of Mad King Trump
Found this piece by former Common Cause chairman Richard North Patterson thanks to a tweet minutes ago from Laurence Tribe.
Tribe's tweet:
Link to tweet
Americas ersatz Nero heeded the discordant notes of his own incessant fiddling, downplaying the threat to life and health while spreading disinformation that endangered all who believed him. Read more here from the always spot-on @RicPatterson
https://thebulwark.com/the-ravings-of-mad-king-trump/
https://thebulwark.com/the-ravings-of-mad-king-trump/
Patterson's column:
https://thebulwark.com/the-ravings-of-mad-king-trump/
To a striking degree, Donald Trumps administration evokes the final days of the mad king of some Ruritanian backwater, spewing splenetic ravings while his shrinking cadre of sycophants struggles to steer their foundering ship of state.
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Emulating a frightened oldster hearing the first, faint echo of senescence like a distant signal on a transistor radio, Trump bragged to Chris Wallace about acing a test designed to detect the onset of Alzheimers or dementia. But his problem is differentinstead of entering his second childhood, Trump seems never to have left his first.
These recurring scenes from a Peter Sellers movie might have a certain seriocomic fascination had Trump not failed the most serious test of real-world leadership: a rolling public health disaster which has afflicted sickness, death, and privation on many millions of Americans.
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Instead of listening to science, Trump looks for affirmation from the fever swamp of right-wing media, recycling falsehoods, bogus conspiracies, and patent quackery. To please his base, he has mocked mask-wearing, campaigned against the public health measures recommended by his own administration, and shifted blame to everyone from the Chinese to Barack Obama. The only unifying theme is the cosmic self-pity which disqualifies Trump from leadership and destroys his empathy for otherslicensing Trumps laser focus on himself as the pandemics chief victim.
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Emulating a frightened oldster hearing the first, faint echo of senescence like a distant signal on a transistor radio, Trump bragged to Chris Wallace about acing a test designed to detect the onset of Alzheimers or dementia. But his problem is differentinstead of entering his second childhood, Trump seems never to have left his first.
These recurring scenes from a Peter Sellers movie might have a certain seriocomic fascination had Trump not failed the most serious test of real-world leadership: a rolling public health disaster which has afflicted sickness, death, and privation on many millions of Americans.
-snip-
Instead of listening to science, Trump looks for affirmation from the fever swamp of right-wing media, recycling falsehoods, bogus conspiracies, and patent quackery. To please his base, he has mocked mask-wearing, campaigned against the public health measures recommended by his own administration, and shifted blame to everyone from the Chinese to Barack Obama. The only unifying theme is the cosmic self-pity which disqualifies Trump from leadership and destroys his empathy for otherslicensing Trumps laser focus on himself as the pandemics chief victim.
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Much more at the link.
This should go viral.
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The Ravings of Mad King Trump (Original Post)
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