This seems to be part of trump's play book all along though. He screams over and over about a false narrative that the election was stolen from him to cover him doing it.
I’m far from the first person to point this out. But I have focused on it when it came to judging his decisions, interpreting his words, etc. and my own, and many others, observation seems to be a very accurate assessment: with Trump, every accusation is a confession. Are there exceptions? I don’t know, lying seems to be inherent to the man, but, in my own experience weighing his accusations, they all can be seen as projections and confessions.
Really seems to work every time I make that assumption, and then apply it to the words he’s spewing in his tweets, in his interviews. Trump is always accusing others of 3 things: things that he has done, things that he is doing himself, as he speaks and accuses, or things that he plans on doing himself down the line.
The 2020 election is the prime example, and one that, if he’s around long enough, will see the history of the 2020 election rewritten in high school American history texts to reflect: Donald Trump was the actual winner of the 2020 election. He would most certainly change our history texts to reflect his accusation. An accusation that was a confession, since he pulled out many tricks from his bag in order to steal the 2020 election. He tried to pull off what he wants History to say is the very thing he claims, until his dying breath, was what the Democrats tried to do: steal the 2020 election from him. There is the accusation. The confession is easily visible, and transparent, if one is not in the cult of Trump.
Look at the way he always attempts to simply talk his alternate reality into existence. Disagree with his fact free accounts, not only are you mistaken, you stand a good chance of being “the enemy within”, for even the simplest disagreements with the alternate reality he works so hard to make the ONLY reality Americans can be allowed to believe in.
It really seems like, every day now, he proclaims alternate false realities, and uses them to bludgeon Americans who can see through this silly charade. It’s perhaps the main reason we now find ourselves in an American Idiotocracy.
Tom Nichols does a good job, in this essay, in describing this Idiotocracy. An idiotocracy where, if you ask the Press Secretary who made the decision for the next Trump-Putin meeting, the Press Secretary answers: “your mom did”. Very juvenile! But what else should, or could, one expect, when Trump and his minions are creating alternate realities on the fly?
Never in my time on Earth have I seen a president attack reality on a daily basis, rewrite history on a daily basis, bludgeon anyone who disagrees with even the most inconsequential claim by Trump as “the enemy within”, on a daily basis. Trump: “This is MY reality, and this will be the ONLY reality allowed in this nation!”.
It really is that simple an equation, and it really is that stupid, that idiotic.
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com
The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls, deflecting criticism with crassness and obscenity. The White House press secretary answers a question from a member of the free press—a serious question about who planned a meeting between the American and Russian presidents—by saying, “
Your mom did.” The
secretary of defense cancels DEI and other policies by saying, “We are done with that ****.” The
vice president calls an interlocutor on social media a “dip****.” The president of the United States, during mass protests against his policies, responds by posting an AI-generated
video of himself flying a jet fighter over his fellow citizens and dumping feces on their heads.
These are not the actions of mature adults. They are examples of crude people displaying their incompetence as they flail about in jobs—including the presidency—for which they are not qualified.
The republic will not fall because Vice President J. D. Vance has decided that swearing is edgy, and the juvenility of American public life did not begin with the Trump administration. But the larger danger under all of this nastiness is that President Donald Trump and his courtiers are using crass deflection and gleeful immaturity as means of numbing society and wearing down its resistance to all kinds of depredations, including corruption and violence. When the U.S. military kills people at sea and
Vance, responding to a charge that such actions might be war crimes, responds, “I don’t give a **** what you call it,” the goal is not just to boost Vance’s hairy-chest cred; it’s also to grind others down into accepting the idea of extrajudicial executions.
The collapse of a superpower into a regime of bullies and mean girls and
comic-book guys explains much about why American democracy is on the ropes, reeling from the attacks of
people who in a better time would never have been allowed near the government of the United States.
