For the past few weeks I've been reading posts here about Trump, and I've even started writing posts in reply, but then I delete them. I'm getting to the point where I have heard it all. Trump can still surprise me with his newest antics, but I'm starting to turn it all off.
We all know he's full of the hottest air of anyone alive and that his ego is as big as his a**, and he is certainly not fit to be President of this country, but unfortunately his IS our President.
I find myself walking around shaking my head and sighing all the time now. I have no words to describe how I feel inside with regards to our dear leader.
And I'm sighing and shaking my head right now, not knowing how to end this post.
I think I know how you feel. When Trump was elected, I was devastated. Not because I had wanted Clinton to win so badly. I'd assumed that I would spent the next four years after a Clinton victory complaining about neocons, neoliberalism, and donating money to far-left groups. But because I saw Trump as an aspirational dictator, with all the worse elements of a cult of personality, fascism-tinged anti-intellectual populism, and the GOP's various social conservative awfulness.
But then we got to see Trump in action. And it's sure not pretty, but, well the defining characteristics of the Trump administration seem to be narcissistic petty incompetence. Yes, he's awful. But there's no grand plan here we can oppose. He's going to be small, nasty, and evil randomly until he gets booted from office, however long that takes. There are and will be things that need to be done to mitigate his decisions, and to fight the general rightward trend that comes from having the GOP in charge.
But the stuff coming out of his mouth really is just glossolalia. It sounds like President talking, but it really isn't. Yes, there's a Trump Administration in the White House, but what Trump himself does, and certaily what he
says is near-entirely disconnected from it. (And it in turn somewhat disconnected from reality, including the rest of the government.)
I have a friend who is convinced that there is some deep Machiavellian motives lurking somewhere behind Trump, but I just can't bring myself to believe it. Trump is like a hurricane - big, fast moving, all wet, mostly just air, random, destructive, and possessed of as much sentience as a turnip. And much like with a hurricane, we need to take appropriate short- and long-term precautions, deal with damage, and get one with our lives as best we can.
