It is revealing to note that, despite Donald J. Trump’s election on the Republican ticket, he emphatically is not a Republican, MAGA or otherwise. Aside from the numerous empirical affirmations of such a declaration, several of which are included in this writing, we respectfully challenge the reader to recall any indication of political belief made by our deceitful grifting protagonist. The eternally debated issues, such as free trade, big government, finance, the national debt, economic policy, government programs of financial aid and medical assistance, domestic or foreign, and any of the sundry issues in eternal debate, Trump has used the now toothless Republican Party to garner and support the position of Chief Executive and facilitate his neurotic hubris. He is a serial grifter, not a political partisan.
Donald J. Trump is no more a politician than the “Right to Life” adherents are protectors of life; the latter, opposing government support to needy children, favoring the right to own and use guns, and supporting atavistic capital punishment. Trump, the gifted fraud and snake-oil salesman, is reductively aware of one singular, egocentric issue: his personal recognition as an admired “Winner.” Our judgmental declaration is supported by his observed policies and choices of action or inaction; the latter, singularly fueled by his egocentric and narcissistic insecurity and not by the Republican or any other extant political credo.
The extant Republican Party, unfortunately characterized by a remarkable number of populists, constituted the best tactical choice in the Nation’s two-party political system, for the contextual grifter. As we came to understand it, “Make America Great Again,” in its tactically intended context, dynamically translated to “Make Trump A Winner,” irrespective of the nature of its potential impact upon the Nation.
Trump’s primitively neurotic instincts were rewarded by a Republican Congress, catatonically compliant with the desires and policies of the Orange cultmaster; often compliantly dismissive of the wishes of their respective constituents. Such lemming-like communal obesience led to the loyal approval of Presidential policies and actions, eventuating in a notable decline in the American Nation’s institutional standing and moral authority and its historical standing as an avatar of liberty, democracy, and empathy for the disadvantaged.
The neurotic hubris of the errant President led to an unprecedented derogation of the Founders’ architecture of America’s” Separation of Powers,” and “Checks and Balances,” as evidenced by the despicable usurpation by the autocratic Trump of the authority constitutionally allocated to the three distinct branches of government.
Thus, authority solely exercisable by Congress, or requiring its mandatory approval, was autocratically usurped by the despotic Trump, who, in his hubristic self-delusion, proclaimed legislation, with regal authority, via his formidable thick-imaging, black “Sharpie.” These included ubiquitous “Executive Orders, without regard for the constitutional allocation of specified authority among the three branches of the Nation’s systemic architecture. Such errant authority included the devising of arbitrary tariffs, waging war on Venezuelan boats at sea, and dismissing federal civil service agencies, such as those administering the vital duties of National Education, Health, and Medical Research; such subjects legally within the purview of requisite Congressional approval.
The bizarre failure of Donald J. Trump to tactically and wisely choose to, initially (and easily) obtain the legally required and predictably assured consent,. by the gtrump-cultish Congress, mandated for certain prescribed Presidential acts, empirically reflects both his ignorant incapability, and thematically, his dystopian illusions of monarchical grandeur. His demonstrated instincts are systematically those of a skillful serial grifter and megalomaniac, and distinctly not those of a political partisan.
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