The very existence of the Trump Presidency demonstrates how the American system of government is flawed in a way that most of us had not expected. An incompetent, corrupt narcissist who had used help from a foreign country bent on our destruction got into the White House by means of the antiquated Electoral College after losing the popular vote.
I do believe Trump hadn't really wanted to be President, and had been horrified when he had actually won. That said, now that he has the Presidency he'll hold onto it with a death grip because, as Bill Maher had once observed, Trump is all Id. He's driven by appetite, possessiveness, and greed.
Rather than looking to America's traditions of liberty and free government, he aspires to be a strongman, like those around the globe who he admires, such as Putin, Duerte, Kim, Erdogan, and others, and wants to hold on to power for as long as he can, just as his role models do.
Something like Trump should have been impossible in the idealized America. The problem is, the idealized America exists only in the minds of Americans, and it's time that we acknowledge that fact. He's the outgrowth of the dark reality of America, where unreasonable prejudice is just as bad here as anywhere else, and ignorance is considered to be a virtue, or at least as legitimate as knowledge and rationality.
Or in short, I agree, Trump must go.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
07 Oct 2020, 5:09 pm
