ANDRE LEVINE—It is hard to remember a time when a sensible person could think that things were going well for the vast majority of Americans. Nevertheless, from our present vantage point, even the past several decades seem like salad days. It is as if the Donald was put on earth to prove that, in American politics, the scum, not the cream, rises to the top. But illusions persist, and so there are people who insist that Trump isn’t really a moron; that he is pretending to be infantile and ignorant for some ulterior purpose.
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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
This article sets out quite clearly the obtuse political views of the liberal classes, namely that Trump is a dunderhead. Clearly the author does not live in Manhattan from where Trump originates, a fierce and lethal real estate environment, where Cosa Nostra rules reign. To survive that by any means fair or foul requires a hide so thick that a rhinoceros would be jealous of it and a toughness that takes no prisoners. In that kind of milieu, one can neither be stupid nor trusting and it is exactly the traits that Trump does not display. Thus, full of the… Read more »
This piece of propaganda for making Mike Pence President and for doing it as quickly as possible, is idiotic and is also extremely deceptive because it fails even so much as to mention Mike Pence. I am shocked to see it here. Pence as President would be even worse than Trump, but the article’s author doesn’t even care about that, enough to so much as mention Pence’s name in this oblivious-to-reality screed.