Do I need to remind you? Donald Trump is an evil person. He is a moron, liar, narcissist, sex offender, torturer, and xenophobe. To be more specific, he is a bully, nepotist, an adulterer, has weak skin, is corrupt, and is overweight. He is also a tiny-handed, Putin-loving, hateful, right-wing populist, I should add. And how about his hair?
Does that improve your mood? Can I do that? How is the climate where you live? Available for lunch?
The newest party game for the same folks whose worldview convinced millions of people to vote for him in November is coming up with insults for Donald Trump. That does not render the insults ineffective. However, it does support the notion held by his most fervent supporters that he is a valiant outsider out to destroy the so-called liberal elite that only mocks rather than debates. More importantly, the insults take attention away from the more crucial issue of where on earth the head of the western world is headed by playing the guy instead of the ball. A president can be a mendacious fool, which he or she frequently has been, and still be a good leader.
Effectiveness is not a word that best describes Trump at this time. He appears to be a rickety truck loaded with bombs speeding downhill toward both America and the new world order after another turbulent week in Washington. Family members, shock jocks, generals, and tycoons are all there, but none of them have any prior experience with collaborative management. Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus, two of Trump’s most senior advisers, have already gotten into a spat. It is captivating in an Armageddon-like sense. It’s interesting to see how the Washington establishment is reacting defensively like a cornered animal. The corridors of Washington are crowded with constitutional attorneys waving “checks and balances” while wearing fluttering gowns. The president’s orders are ruled illegal by judges. In order to impeach Mike Flynn, Trump’s national security adviser, the FBI leaks information. The president’s endorsement of torture is overruled by the Pentagon. NATO wants guarantees. Leaders of Congress look into covert transactions with Russia. Currently, Obamacare is reportedly secure.
No less so because the direction of his revolution is not to everyone’s taste, Trump is a natural, bloody-minded revolutionary. On the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s arrival in St. Petersburg, he makes his way to the White House. Both parties aimed to “drain the swamp” and overthrow a long-standing system of officials, judges, foreign financiers, and the media. Both slaughtered their adversaries and drew support from conquered provinces. Trump may agree with the Lenin quotation, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Trump’s “policy” was largely thrown together on the fly, so almost nothing he said while running for office seems trustworthy. The day I realised it can be smart to be shallow, he wrote in his memoirs, “was, for me, a deep experience.” A large portion of his platform and what he has thus far attempted in office were repulsive or stupid. But some of it was reasonable, at least in spirit. Trump’s call for term limits for members of Congress and his attack on lobbyists in Washington were long overdue. At times, his comments about Wall Street appeared to reference the Occupy movement. His concern for rust belt jobs, “urban carnage,” and infrastructure spending was appreciated. Trump was also audacious in demanding that NATO revaluate both its mission and funding. He finally spoke out against America’s interventionist wars and its lusty ties to the Gulf states. In contrast to NATO’s aggressive provocation, the desire to re-establish relations between the west and Russia was more sensitive to the shifting balance of power in Europe. After his Washington predecessors’ frozen, illiberal mindset, the animosity towards the eurozone is welcome.
We might wonder how a man who is so antagonistic toward Mexicans, Muslims, and gun control can also be antagonistic toward the CIA, FBI, Federal Reserve, and the Iraq War. That is the new politics—the dismantling of tribal identities and beliefs. Trump believes he is reaching out to “flyover country” in the United States, a region that felt abandoned and betrayed by liberalism. After the election, the left-leaning economist Paul Krugman bravely acknowledged, “We truly did not understand the country we live in. “Additionally, meaningless promises and phoney authenticity are hallmarks of the new politics. The only sane advice is the same as what might have been given to Trump’s female victims: trust a man’s actions, not his words. Trump has only recently begun acting, so we wait and watch. Nobody in office is an autocrat. He is a resolution of the forces around him, which he can influence in part but not completely. In contrast to Britain, America is a balanced democracy, with the executive branch’s power restrained by the courts, Congress, and state autonomy. The last of these should not be overlooked as California gears up to defy Trump’s orders, particularly those regarding migrants. There is a simmering new civil war, with the Confederates siding with the good guys this time. So far, Trump has the appearance of a revolutionary out of his element who is stumbling and at odds with his own executive branch. This is not shocking at all. Trump never anticipated getting the job and lacked the necessary skills or background. He is a disaster when it comes to hiring people; just during his presidential campaign, he lost three managers. Both Bannon and Priebus are unsustainable. Trump is attempting a new form of government, whether on purpose or out of instinct. He gives orders without thinking, then has to moderate them after defending them on social media. In a way, the fact that a complete outsider with a propensity for revolution can become president without having a strong base of support is thrilling. I wonder if Vladimir Putin had Lenin in mind when he popped the cork on the champagne to celebrate Trump’s election victory. Now, the entire world is waiting on America. Even though opposition from within the system is clearly diluting them, some negative things are already occurring under Trump. We can anticipate that some positive outcomes will also occur, but we must hope that the system does not also muddy these outcomes. Trump is strange and unsettling. However, it’s possible that he will also follow the adage that every revolution turns conservative the next day. We need your help with something since you’re joining us from India today. Since we began publishing 200 years ago, tens of millions of people have put their faith in the Guardian’s fearless reporting, turning to us in times of crisis, uncertainty, solidarity, and hope. More than 1.5 million donors from 180 different nations now provide the financial support we need to remain inclusive and fiercely independent.
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