This is a clear example of where we are with Tribal politicsOriginally Posted by Niall_Quinn
A tendency to diminish problems on one side when there are problems on the other side too
There isn’t a competition between what’s more deranged Trump himself or those who compared him to Hitler, and the people laughing at those who did this are now comparing Biden to Hitler when they aren’t claiming he is so cognitively impaired he’s practically brain dead…I mean which is it?
Trump was a terrible president simply because even if he did have policies or views that challenged the comfortable status quo (something which is massively overstated in any regard) his inability to function based on his constant need to make himself the most important person in the room. There was too much focus on his tweets and not enough focus on his highly agitated mental state. I agree that any armchair diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder is ridiculous and superficial and is on the same level as twitter imbeciles claiming Putin is dying based on photographs and videos (as if somehow we’ve determined that we can diagnose someone medically simply by looking at someone)
Biden is a terrible president because he’s too old, and he was never a particularly impressive politician to begin with.
But the absolutely pathetic carnage that ate away at a nations psyche was caused by Trump being unable to accept that he lost an election, and it was abundantly clear that he would behave like this because he’s had it instilled in him by his father that there’s nothing worse to be in life than a loser. So whilst attempts at diagnoses are not worth anything, one is left with Occam’s razor
What is more likely that mass voter fraud happened in every state Trump needed to win to be re-elected, didn’t occur in states that he carried (including states that the Biden Canpaign felt they had in the bag like Florida and North Carolina) and that despite the failure of even Trump’s own legal team to present evidence in court…that machines were re-programmed, partisan vote checkers allowed ballots that should have been disqualified to count and that the late arriving ballots from democratic counties were also all fraudulent even though it was known because of there has been a long established difference in voter preference between those who vote on the day and those who vote by postal ballot or by early voting.
Or
That a man who at no point stated either in 2016 or 2020 stated that he would concede the election if he lost, a man who has constantly claimed victory in law suits he has lost and has staked his entire reputation and personality on being a winner, couldn’t take losing and created a narrative in his own head where he had been cheated and then spent the next two months trying to cling on to power despite having lost.
Trump is no Hitler, no Mussolini, no fascist. He isn’t even a conservative in any exact understanding of the word. But he’s spread his own self aggrandising conspiratorial mindset through the Republican Party, just as Foucault social justice deconstructionist nonsense has spread like a plague through the Democratic Party.
Whatever the solution, I think it’s fair to say the Americans could do without both, but it’s their freedom to choose. And I would hope whichever stupid option they pick, the other stupid side doesn’t try and pretend it was otherwise.
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