The MAGA approach to governing is pure Orwellianism based in manufacturing lies and illusions. The MAGA elites seem to be perfectly adapted to this alternate reality world. They seem to have no concept of objective truth or the ethics of truthfulness.
MAGA elites always reject personal responsibility for anything negative linked to them. They always scapegoat a political enemy or the 'fake news'. They are all cowardly and irresponsible sub-adults.
Trump seems to have become psychologically addicted to blaming everything that is negative in his narcissistic world on some conspiracy against him, such as 'rigging' things to hurt him. He can never take any personal responsibility for anything negative affecting him. He is a classic 'man-child'.
This what can happen in a conflict when any nation, regardless of religion or ethnicity, is governed by sociopathic patriarchal males who spread their sociopathologies down the authoritarian hierarchy.
It has been said countless times before, but it is truly astonishing how emotionally child-like Trump can be. We are now witnessing on the world stage the child-like emotional tantrums of a child-like President in mental free fall into senility.
This is turning a paranoid obsession with guilt denial into a conscience evading religion or cult. MAGA's ego-based, cruel patriarchal 'god' is in many ways the opposite of the genuinely moral spiritual God that Christ was pointing humanity towards.
The Russians and Chinese must be finding it very frustrating trying to decipher the MAGA mind.
"The tragedy is no longer Trump’s. It is now America’s." That could have been said on earlier dates, such as Nov.5, 2024 and Jan.6, 2021.
If true, the line between the Trump administration and a mafia organization will become very blurred. The Trump administration already looks like juvenile delinquents trying to imitate Putin's kleptocratic criminal regime in the Kremlin.
A fundamental and crucial question is: what is it in postmodern American culture that is pumping out so many pathetic, feckless, spineless, characterless suck-up wimps in place of adult men, especially among 'conservatives'?
Never has the concept of people before profit been more meaningful and more urgent.
The kryptonite for MAGA elites is always the same: get them to court. Their lies and incompetence are revealed for all to see.
'most corrupt administration in American history.' That is clearly true, but it is because the American electorate on the whole is the most corrupt in American history. We have arrived at a corrupt state of society and politics through decades of regression towards narcissism, greed and ignorance.
In an authoritarian government, it can be a small step from habitual lying to simply making things up. Fortunately, the American judicial system is still operating effectively and will quickly, as always, separate the wheat from the chaff in any MAGA self-delusion or attempted trickery.
"repulsive to the consciences of most Americans". That is a blessing in disguise. MAGA is so repulsive that Americans may learn some hard lessons and plan accordingly for a better and stronger democracy. And the growing powers of the cynical billionaire class in America may be tharwted.
A psychopath cannot possibly understand what Christ was talking about. Like his own cult, Trump presumes that Christianity is simply a self-serving cult with a cult leader who exploits his own followers. Trumps wants to be the cult leader of an expanded cult that includes all American Christians.
To a psychopathic mind drawn to maximum control of the world and its inhabitants, the transformational god-like powers of AI may seem as 'religious'. But true religion at its best frees us of such supremely egocentric delusions of power. AI as directed by psychopaths is taking us to a Faustian hell.
The Trump era is becoming an historical lesson in what can go wrong when a democratic nation founded in respect for science hands over its powers and responsibilities to a small group of corrupt sociopaths.
"Loyalty ... explains why Trump has no qualified individuals in his administration." It also explains why he has no serious adults in his administration. Genuine, rational, responsible adults serve principles, not the personal whims of bully-boys. And Trump knows it. He hates adults.
'Is Trump going to hell?' A better question might be: is Trump from hell? He certainly seems to be doing the bidding of some cosmic force not linked to heaven.
Make crime great again, at least by the wealthy and well-connected.
"he’s losing his mind." In MAGA, that is clearly not a disqualifier to be their political/cult leader.
The troubling reality is that for too many in MAGA, losing your mind is not a disqualifier to be their political/cult leader.
"All in on the new anti-papalism." It's all part of the MAGA agenda of moving people from woke Christianity to their sociopathic cult worshipping the anti-Christ.
It reflects a trait common to MAGA elites: they truly believe they can invent their own reality to suit themselves. It explains why lying comes so easily to them. They reject truthfulness as readily as they reject reality.
It demonstrates, once again, how completely encultured, conditioned and habituated the MAGA elites have become to routine lying and deception. Being genuinely truthful doesn't even enter their minds anymore.
"Does anybody sane believe this guy?" If you're a MAGA elite, your target audience is not sane people. Your target audience are those who elected Trump, twice.
Notice how he feels a need to translate Trump for everyone in a way that does not antagonize Trump but allows some distance from Trump.
"They are not our goals." Most of them see human existence as a cynical zero sum game in which they are determined to win as much as they can at the expense of as many of their fellow humans as possible.
Trump is our enemy because we are his enemy. Pure psychopaths like Trump see everyone as an enemy. They spend their lives manipulating, co-opting or crushing their enemies, i.e., everyone.