[PROPOSITION: The dystopian, confusing, and unprecedented nature of the Trump administration’s impact on the American Nation is functionally analogous to that of a hostile nation’s program of tactical propaganda.]
America took note of Donald Trump’s bizarre motivation, whereby, with the assistance of his imp-like sorcerer’s apprentice, Elon Musk, its utilitarian federal civil service was shockingly emasculated. Among the more politically oriented victims of his Federal holocaust was the historically impactful “Voice of America.” We are of an age that can recall the vital role of that dedicated agency in countering enemy propaganda in the Second World War ( viz., “Tokyo Rose” et al.), whose tactical mission was to question and divide America’s public, and undermine its war effort.
To be clear, we do not attribute such propagandic motivation to Trump’s singularly unorthodox and unprecedented policies; nevertheless, the proximate result of his dystopian MAGA enterprise (properly, “Make A Gestapo America”) has a like result.
An enemy nation’s strategic goals would include the perpetration of divisiveness and rancor, feelings of ambiguity and disunity, economic stress and discontent with the prevailing government. Relative to all these tactically impactful goals, Donald Trump and his governmental menagerie of faithful, entirely unsuitable, Cabinet and policy advisors have succeeded beyond any aspirations of a dreaded enemy. nation.
As a consequence the extant vulnerable state of our democratic polity, and Trump’s distorted and feckless understanding of the traditional American way of life poses a great threat to the very endurance of our unique Democratic Republic, and exposes the Nation to the vicissitudes of life in an autocratic State; a goal savored by any of our historic enemies and grievance-laden, underbelly populists.
The anomalous danger to our Republic, to be clear, is not motivated by political .r economic dogma. Donald Trump has irrefutably shown himself to be lacking in any conceivable political or philosophical principle and is singularly guided by his neurotic aspirations to be perceived as a wise and powerful monarch. His catastrophic policies are aptly described as incompetent, amoral, and hubristically reprehensible. The sole exception to his (“alternate facts”), serial mendacity is his declaration of intent to be a “Dictator;” an aspiration evinced by his discarding of the Nation’s Constitution and rule of law, his inappropriate lust for personal treasure, and his existentially neurotic need to be adjudged a “winner.” Illustrative is his concept that trade or contract implies a “winner and a loser” rather than consenting parties, mutually benefitting from a desired transaction; an analogous. Paranoid ideation is confirmed in the totality of his transactions, domestic and international.
Trump’s motivation is uniformly based upon his neurotic, reductionist perception of reality and thus, by the egotistic flourish of his black, velvet-tipped “Sharpie,” despotically and monarchically proclaims unrestrained, hubristic Presidential Orders, frequently in contravention of law and the Nation’s Constitutional architecture of “Separation of Powers.” The discord created by his unique and undemocratic mode of governance, together with the irrational, unjust subject of his autocratic decrees, is causative of citizen discontent, divisiveness, and confused loyalties, the motivational sine qua non of classic enemy propagandists.
Added to the public’s knowledge of the immoral and dystopic, un-American policies of this “orange hazmat,” must be an existential awareness of their relevant propagandistic utility to the Nation’s sworn enemies.
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