"Donald Trump, as I keep insisting on this blog, is not going away."
No, he is never going to go away, and why would he? He is the most extremely online not actually online person in the world. He wants to be on TV all the time. A universe in which he is the center of everything (like every other person ever) and people basically worship him for it. Any alone time is bad time as far as he is concerned.
"As I’ve argued before, Trump is carrying on as if he’s the head of a government in exile."
He has managed to escape his Bavarian Redoubt in Florida, so here we are.
In all the lists of best/worst Presidents, no one ever includes Jefferson Davis, even though he was an extremely plausible presidential contender during his time in the Senate, and then he held the title of President at the head of a half-assed government of part of the territory of the United States. I'd think we'd put him down at the very bottom of the list of American Presidents, with an asterisk next to his name. Instead we pretend he didn't exist, which allows him to exist as a hero in shadow to the invisible empire crowd. If he was at the bottom, he'd be dunked on all the time as the obvious worst, and he'd be perpetually as the biggest loser of the presidential sweepstakes.
Americans, as perennially performative optimists, prefer to exist in a world of total denial (about crazy Aunt Annie in the attic, about Dad/Granddad/brother/son with the serious booze problem, about Mom & the neighbor guy (lady!), about the wrong people moving in their neighborhood, about all the people they hate, about Native American land, about slavery, about our great American gulag system, &c). So, apparently, the preferred way of dealing with the post-January 6th realities is just to pretend (hope hope hope!) Donald Trump doesn't exist and then he'll just vanish into the snow of a dead TV channel. Or is he supposed to drown in the endless empty ocean of a TV's 'no signal' blue?)
I'm not sure why the Great & the Good are buying time for Trump to rebuild his position (I have a good guess) but there he is just cranking away. You'd think they'd never heard of the Wacht am Rhine*.
I don't think the CEO class, the 'operator class' and Davos man will have such an easy time of it on Trump's next go around.
I suppose the media can never resist playing with fire. Good for ratings.
elm
* he's still not Hitler, but the American Elite are still have the dumb bunny habits they've always had
"Donald Trump, as I keep insisting on this blog, is not going away."
No, he is never going to go away, and why would he? He is the most extremely online not actually online person in the world. He wants to be on TV all the time. A universe in which he is the center of everything (like every other person ever) and people basically worship him for it. Any alone time is bad time as far as he is concerned.
"As I’ve argued before, Trump is carrying on as if he’s the head of a government in exile."
He has managed to escape his Bavarian Redoubt in Florida, so here we are.
In all the lists of best/worst Presidents, no one ever includes Jefferson Davis, even though he was an extremely plausible presidential contender during his time in the Senate, and then he held the title of President at the head of a half-assed government of part of the territory of the United States. I'd think we'd put him down at the very bottom of the list of American Presidents, with an asterisk next to his name. Instead we pretend he didn't exist, which allows him to exist as a hero in shadow to the invisible empire crowd. If he was at the bottom, he'd be dunked on all the time as the obvious worst, and he'd be perpetually as the biggest loser of the presidential sweepstakes.
Americans, as perennially performative optimists, prefer to exist in a world of total denial (about crazy Aunt Annie in the attic, about Dad/Granddad/brother/son with the serious booze problem, about Mom & the neighbor guy (lady!), about the wrong people moving in their neighborhood, about all the people they hate, about Native American land, about slavery, about our great American gulag system, &c). So, apparently, the preferred way of dealing with the post-January 6th realities is just to pretend (hope hope hope!) Donald Trump doesn't exist and then he'll just vanish into the snow of a dead TV channel. Or is he supposed to drown in the endless empty ocean of a TV's 'no signal' blue?)
I'm not sure why the Great & the Good are buying time for Trump to rebuild his position (I have a good guess) but there he is just cranking away. You'd think they'd never heard of the Wacht am Rhine*.
I don't think the CEO class, the 'operator class' and Davos man will have such an easy time of it on Trump's next go around.
I suppose the media can never resist playing with fire. Good for ratings.
elm
* he's still not Hitler, but the American Elite are still have the dumb bunny habits they've always had