If you were to show the verbatim text of any of Trump’s recent messages and declarations — from his speeches, memos to foreign leaders, and social media blatherings — to anyone who has no predetermined assessment of the man and his motivations, it would be absurdly obvious that the man is in the advanced, and dangerous, stages of senile dementia. As I’ve said earlier, these are not the missives of an ideological extremist, but rather the disconnected ravings of a man who has totally lost touch with reality.
So why are his political opponents, and the media, scrupulously refraining from calling a loon a loon?
My guess is that the media think their role is to interpret what he means, not report what he says, because if they did the latter (ie their jobs), the public’s reaction, around the world and across the political spectrum would clearly be: WTF? And then they’d be in the difficult spot of explaining why they didn’t do their jobs years ago and tell their readers how dangerous it would be to allow a severely traumatized and mentally ill man to even run for nomination for high office. Total cowardice.
As for his political opponents, they’ve gone ‘all in’ on painting him as a steadfast ideologue and doctrinaire fascist, and hence painted themselves into a corner as the ‘moderate’ anti-Trumpians. The last thing they want is to let him, and the dim-witted party that nominated him, off the hook on the ‘technicality’ that he was and is mentally ill and incapable of understanding his actions. They want him to do crazy and dangerous things, and be seen to be doing so ‘deliberately’, to strengthen their talk-big-and-do-nothing platform of mediocrity, and give voters even less choice than the corporatized US political duopoly already presents them with.
And everyone is afraid to think what it means to have a madman who’s been allowed to ignore the legislative function of Congress, ignore all judicial attempts to reverse and block his actions, ignore the US constitution, and ignore international law, running amok, appointing similarly mentally handicapped and incompetent people to key offices, and seemingly free to do whatever his deranged mind and the voices speaking to him are saying.
It took two years for the paralytic, zombified politicians and media to finally state the obvious about Biden’s mental state and his unfitness for office. What is going to have to happen before they state the same about the dodderer-in-chief?
image by AI; my own prompt
