For well over a decade there has been a wealth of articles and studies trying to explain Trump and all his biases and hatred…..I have posted most of them for I would like to make sense of this modern day phenom.
Right on cue there is yet another ‘explanation’….
It’s high time commentators stopped trying to shoehorn the American polity into a paradigm that doesn’t fit. Donald Trump’s brand of government is as new and unique as it is volatile and disturbing. Sometimes, history neither repeats nor rhymes. Sometimes, a whole new species bursts onto the scene.
What we’re seeing today with Trump isn’t dictatorship. Dictators control their countries. They don’t rely on the opposition party to pass budgets; they dictate where money is spent. They don’t get bludgeoned every hour in the press; they dominate the media. And they don’t have their key initiatives stymied in the courts; they control the judiciary.
Nor is this Nazism. Nazis don’t make Nazi salutes at rallies and then try (with mixed success) to downsize the government. Nazis make Nazi salutes at rallies and then go kill a bunch of innocent people. Nazis, moreover, don’t just slap tariffs on their neighbors. Nazis invade their neighbors.
This isn’t fascism, either. Fascists enforce a coherent vision of government through a murderous, totalitarian regime. They don’t flail around pursuing incoherent and contradictory policies that get blocked as frequently as they get implemented.
Sure, there are similarities between Trump’s presidency and these historical forms of government. Trump’s rhetoric, for example, is often lifted from the lips of history’s worst tyrants. His abuses of executive power, moreover, often resemble certain dictatorial techniques. But, overall, these political pegs don’t fit into the American hole. Having similarities with something is different from being the same thing. Both the mouse and the elephant have four legs and a tail.
No, what we have in America today is different. It’s new. It’s unprecedented. What we have in America today is Trumpism.
https://thefulcrum.us/donald-trump-leadership-style
I disagree that this a form of leadership….to me his government is a rudderless ship that is precariously close to the rocks of disaster.
On another hand….I personally think that Little Donny is not all there with his decision making capabilities…..the country is slow simmering on collapse and he spends too much time worrying about his golf game….but that aside this a meme going around about dementia.
Donald Trump is dealing with dementia during his second term as president, at least according to psychotherapist and author Dr. John Gartner.
Dr. Gartner has noted numerous symptoms Trump may be suffering from including his inability to “even finishing a sentence,” RadarOnline.com can reveal.
After previously claiming “there is absolutely no doubt” Trump has dementia, Dr. Gartner explained his reasoning to MindSite News in a new interview.
He said: “When we’re diagnosing dementia, what we need to see is a deterioration of someone’s own baseline of functioning. What we see that a lot of people don’t appreciate is that when Donald Trump was younger in the 1980s, he was actually quite articulate. He spoke in polished paragraphs; now he has difficulty even finishing a sentence.
“His thoughts were logical and related: now they’re tangential. He goes off on these ramblings where he is confabulating things – weird things in which he’ll talk about Venezuelans and mental hospitals, and then he’ll talk about sharks and batteries or the late, great Hannibal Lector and Silence of the Lambs.”
https://radaronline.com/p/trump-dementia-obvious-signs-suffering-from-alzheimers/
***Please understand that I am not claiming this is the definitive explanation only that it is being passed around….and I include it as an FYI for my visitors.***
Then we have some of his supporters….I know some that are claiming that they were duped for their vote….all I can do for these people is bust out in raucous laughter…they we told over and over and they chose to disregard the facts and vote for a person that lied to them on ever level.
I guess the old saying ‘Can’t Fix Stupid” is accurate to the nth degree.
Any thoughts you would like to share?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
‘Trumpism’ could emerge as a new definition of his style of knee-jerk, crazy politics. Ironically, he would almost certainly see that as a compliment.
Best wishes, Pete.
Indeed….and knee jerk politics makes for bad bedfellows. chuq
Tyranny by any other name……
Yep….chuq
This is something that has been swirling about our brains for several years. It’s no surprise that Trump has dementia, that he’s a danger to himself and the country he thinks he’s in control of: suddenly people who know about this kind of thing are now coming forward and stating it as fact. Like they just figured this out. Dr. Garner isn’t telling us anything knew. At least he’s stating it clinically.
Trouble is, if he had done this before the last election no fan of Trump would have believed him. Anyone so immune to the signs would have shrugged and voted for him anyway, convinced this was some kind of Democratic propaganda.
Everything negative thing I write is called Leftist propaganda….that is how you know a supporter regardless of what they say. chuq
And now i know why Musk is there with that shit eating grin on his face. He’s running the show, and the President and he knows it. Even at the last time around Trump was beginning to slop over, both physically and mentally. The nazi salutes, the textbook rallies like Hitler gave, the loud martial music…and unless he falls over soon, you can be sure there will be a third term in his future. And ours.
Damn! I hope you are wrong….but I am old so I will be a witness and not a participant in any opposition. chuq
nor I. He is as far from reality as a human can get without being attached to a strait jacket.
LOL Plus it seems to be getting worse…..at least for now…..chuq
I had a mother and a neighbor who had Alzheimers, and he’s a classic case. it does get worse. Trouble is he’s such a public figure and a public (you should excuse the expression) hero ,,,the world has to watch, sadly
One of his sons will step in if it gets really bad. chuq
having seeb this firsthand, it will only get worse, steadily. What Im surprised by is the number of people I grew up around who actually have succumbed to this.
I’m afraid that it is playing out now in DC chuq
No matter how true and/or accurate the diagnosis of dementia, there are those who will adamantly ignore any such signs for one BIG reason: his mental vulnerability allows them to manipulate him to do their various biddings.
Excellent point….they play to his delusions and get their way. chuq
The problem is, people who develop with narcissism often (very often) descend into serious dementia and become almost uncontrollable. They are so used to being in control that the idea of losing that control (real or imagined) that they just sort of collapse entirely.
I think it is playing out as I type. chuq
sounds like me mum, from the beginning. Narcissists are so insecure they hide behind control tactics, trying to make themselves feel better. I grew up with a mother like that, and learned to just let it roll off my back. You can’t argue, you can’t win.
I think it can be boiled down into a very simple statement: money talks. He’s a rich bitch, and that makes him grossly (and I do mean grossly) popular. If he were blue collar, he’d have been tucked away a long time ago.
True that……peasants do not matter…..and our reps in DC are just as bad. chuq