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The President is Trapped
Posted on: March 27, 2020 at 11:16:04 CT
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This from a new article in the Atlantic. Very solid work. Link below.
"For his entire adult life, and for his entire presidency, Donald Trump has created his own alternate reality, complete with his own alternate set of facts. He has shown himself to be erratic, impulsive, narcissistic, vindictive, cruel, mendacious, and devoid of empathy. None of that is new . . .
"The president will try to blame someone else—but in this case the “someone else” is a virus, not a Mexican immigrant or a reporter with a disability, not a Muslim or a Clinton, not a dead war hero or a family of a fallen soldier, not a special counsel or an NFL player who kneels for the national anthem. He will try to use this crisis to pit one party against the other—but the virus will kill both Republicans and Democrats. He will try to create an alternate story to distract people from an inconvenient truth—but in this case, the public is too afraid, the story is too big, and the carnage will be too great to be distracted from it.
America will make it to the other side of this crisis, as it has after every other crisis. But the struggle will be a good deal harder, and the human cost a good deal higher, because we elected as president a man who is so damaged and so broken in so many ways"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/presidents-character-unequal-task/608743/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=2020-03-25T21%3A55%3A04&utm_content=edit-promo&fbclid=IwAR0jXP7kg8oaVdlCg1LbWcUYn8TlAvK_2c_hHHEu0cgFrMQlcb5ok7ykXY8
"For his entire adult life, and for his entire presidency, Donald Trump has created his own alternate reality, complete with his own alternate set of facts. He has shown himself to be erratic, impulsive, narcissistic, vindictive, cruel, mendacious, and devoid of empathy. None of that is new . . .
"The president will try to blame someone else—but in this case the “someone else” is a virus, not a Mexican immigrant or a reporter with a disability, not a Muslim or a Clinton, not a dead war hero or a family of a fallen soldier, not a special counsel or an NFL player who kneels for the national anthem. He will try to use this crisis to pit one party against the other—but the virus will kill both Republicans and Democrats. He will try to create an alternate story to distract people from an inconvenient truth—but in this case, the public is too afraid, the story is too big, and the carnage will be too great to be distracted from it.
America will make it to the other side of this crisis, as it has after every other crisis. But the struggle will be a good deal harder, and the human cost a good deal higher, because we elected as president a man who is so damaged and so broken in so many ways"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/presidents-character-unequal-task/608743/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=2020-03-25T21%3A55%3A04&utm_content=edit-promo&fbclid=IwAR0jXP7kg8oaVdlCg1LbWcUYn8TlAvK_2c_hHHEu0cgFrMQlcb5ok7ykXY8
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