We have been considering the cogent possibility, that the basis of our condemnation of the former President, founded on his demonstrated misdeeds, his criminality, and immoral behavior, can be viewed from a somewhat nuanced, albeit, consistently, depraved and contemptible, perspective.
It is conceivable to perceive Donald Trump as a rare, even sui generis, personality, whose contemptible behavior is, essentially and neurotically, based upon an unquenchable desire to demonstrate professed superiority and its consequential, success (even stardom), but is, in harsh reality, plagued with a fragile and self-conscious sense of precarious personal worth; the latter neurotically, necessitating an eternally, demonstrable public display of (faux) confident superiority and asserted empirical success.
We ponder the credible possibility that Trump’s demonstrated, ignorance and absence of human empathy, are, motivated by an insatiable, neurotic aspiration for public confirmation of his aspirational image and manifested professions of celebrity and empirical superiority; as opposed to basic contextual malevolence. Notably, in either case, the shameful, detrimental effects are, observably reprehensible.
From such a nuanced view, Trump’s persona can be perceived as sui generis (one of a kind) and not merely, a hapless “bull in a china shop,” but, who, wherever he may go, neurotically, brings the entire “china shop” with him.
Consistent with our perception, Trump’s, unexpectedly, large following can be seen as an enormous conglomerate of disparate, populist citizens, unified in their, disparate, malcontent, and perceive his manufactured braggadocio and bizarre behavior, in sync with their negative outlook, as a mutually compatible, indication of irreverence and rebellion against (the elitist) society and the latter’s assumption of alleged superiority and unjustified privilege.
Trump, himself, inarguably, evinces a total lack of personal political philosophy or dogma; his preferences are exclusively and primitively based upon who supports and pleases him. In fact, within the Republican House of Representatives the litmus test, for advancement, bizarrely and sadly, is whether one supports Trump, his election denial (“the Big Lie”), and his nefarious, Washington -based insurrection. His egocentric persona is all too willing to scrap the Nation’s Constitution and Laws, to achieve his ultimate egotistic goal, his autocracy, in the style of his admired avatars, Putin (Russia), Kim Sung Un (North Korea), Li Qiang, (China) and Viktor Orban (Hungary).
Whether one chooses to critically evaluate Trump’s harm to the nation as having its etiology, founded in his inclination to immorality, or to amorality, pure hedonistic evil, or compelling neurosis, the tragic impact on the nation is equally heinous.
Over the course of our writings, we have emphatically urged that the selection of Presidential candidates should not be based, solely and precariously, on the calculation of public political sentiment. Our Democratic Republic, (like other countries), is empirically, and unfortunately, saddled with a large population of citizens who observably evince an inadequate education and are poorly informed; inarguably, far short of the expressed criteria of Thomas Jefferson [“…for a Democracy to succeed, there must exist a sufficiently educated and well-informed citizenry”]. We have ironically observed that any civilian applicant, albeit for any mundane employment, has the mandatory requirement, in the interest of the prospective employer, as a prerequisite, to be found acceptable, after vetting and interviewing. It seems to us, to be no less than a strict fiduciary duty, in the rational and pragmatic interest of the Nation, to fully vet and examine all prospective nominees for the World’s most powerful and impactful position, whose executive index finger is responsibly, said, to be “on the nuclear button.
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