By Robert Gore
How’s that lesser-evil thing working out?
As el gato malo recently observed, there are two types of Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. One afflicts a subset of those who don’t like him; one afflicts a subset of those who do. Among the afflicted, mere mention of his name evokes either foaming-at-the-mouth rage or enraptured paroxysms.
Trump is the vessel for a lot of hopes and dreams, most of which won’t come true. Should he win, he would again be taking on a multi-trillion-dollar totalitarian monstrosity (the term “Blob” is too benign), its remit every important aspect of life within the United States and around the world. Those trillions support millions of government employees, contractors, and beneficiaries. The monstrosity resists any challenge, even if that challenge is only rhetorical. Trump’s challenge the first time was exclusively rhetorical. The monstrosity was bigger, more powerful, more indebted, and more monstrous at the end of his term than at the beginning.
Elected officials come and go; the monstrosity is perpetual. It buries, sometimes literally, anything or anyone contrary to its interests. Even if Trump hadn’t been plagued by Russiagate and other schemes to cripple his presidency, even if he had devoted all his waking hours to vanquishing the monstrosity, it never sleeps, and his effort would have amounted to a pinprick.
Judging him by what he did versus what he said, on all the most important issues Trump was in alignment with the monstrosity. He appointed monsters John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Wilbur Ross, Gina Haspel etc. and got rid of initial appointments who were outside the mainstream, like Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, and Rex Tillerson. Policy is rooted in some sort of philosophy. The monstrosity’s philosophy, if an all-consuming drive can be called that, is expand and command: grow the government and command an ever-larger share of the nation’s resources and activities. Against that, Trump, who has no political philosophy beyond self-aggrandizement, was easily rolled…
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