The man is not capable of sophistication, or any but the basest sensation-seeking dastardliness; it’s all he can do to get the fast food from its cardboard container to the appropriate face-hole. He is a big stupid idiot, is what I am saying, and he likes things that feel good and wants them right now and doesn’t like things that don’t feel good and doesn’t want them ever, and that is the extent of him.
From the first paragraph of Albert Burneko’s essay from the Concourse ‘Politcs’. Sounds like just another opportunity to take those easy low hanging depictions of the WH occupant doesn’t it?theconcourse.deadspin.com/...
When he opens his mouth, when he talks about himself: “I am a degenerate, penny-ante dullard” is the only thing he can say. When he insists he is actually a tremendously smart man, he is saying “I’m a degenerate, penny-ante dullard.” ….. Because he is a soft, breathless, foam-boned inheritance baby with a brain like a wet saltine cracker, because he has been crippled and made monstrous by money and endless permission and therefore cannot conceive of there being any truth or morality beyond what he wants right now, he never knows that this is what he’s doing and also never will. That’s exactly why it’s the only thing he has ever done.
But there is a quite legitimate undercurrent of incisiveness in Burkeno’s post- he makes the point that to begin to paint Trump with some sort of a evil genius paintbrush is to actually align your world view with his
When you credit Donald Trump, in the absence of absolutely any evidence, with possessing the Mephistophelian cunning to bring about his own impeachment, deliberately, for the purpose of bringing to fruition some long-simmering plot to consolidate his political support, you are finally saying that you agree with him. Not just on the baseless claim that he’s actually in possession of one (1) Whole Adult Brain, but on his broader infantile idea of what kind of place this country is. He believes that he deserves what he has because he has it, and his every decision flows from that belief; he believes that being rich and famous, alone, is proof that he should be rich and famous. To see him as he sees himself—as a sinister mastermind—and treat him as he believes he should be treated is to agree with him on all that.
So even as I respect Rep Pelosi for her work trying to rescue Bush and our nation as he stumbled into the stable of the Four Horsemen- and I acknowledge her political chops in the current nightmare of Congress, I think Burkeno makes one helluva valid point about just how much our Boomer statesmen and women are so deeply entrenched [the cynical might add: “enriched”] in this system/business-as-usual. Might be time to recognize that every delay means our judicial system, regulatory systems [and indeed, the survival of the planet] are not just eroded , but perverted. And that maybe- although your wealth and privilege might not be under direct attack, the rest of us are suffering grievously….
More than that, it’s believing in a world where Donald Trump surely must be three steps ahead of his opposition, precisely because he’s richer and more powerful and more famous than them. It’s believing that, because he got elected president even though other smart and rich people were trying to defeat him, he therefore must be the very best at all of this—better at it, surely, than the people who want to defeat him.
In which case, sure, oppose impeaching him. Why wouldn’t you want him to be president, anyway?