What’s the Best Explanation for the Behavior of Trump and His Top Congressional Supporters
A reader sent me this. I completely disagree.
Re: Trump and his enablers’ activities post the 2020 election, let me ask him to pick which of the following is more likely:
a) These people all suffer from narcissism or some related psychological disorder which blinds them from seeing the truth, i.e., that they lost, or,
b) Trump is a sociopathic criminal who had tried dozens of different tactics to overturn an election that he knows goddamn well he lost. He loves power and will commit any conceivable atrocity to maintain it. His enablers aren’t happy about supporting him through this crime-spree, but they see it as the only way to hold on to their seats in Congress.
A reader responds to the meme here: “I don’t believe King’s claims of ‘no fraud’ when there’s no way to establish the absence of fraud without a paper trail and verifiable ID!”
Neal Katyal tells Lawrence O’Donnell that it’s “serious” that Donald Trump’s attorneys have met in person with prosecutors in the Fulton County District Attorney’s office investigating if Trump criminally violated Georgia election law: “It’s good to see Georgia doing what the United States Justice Department should have been doing for the last year.”
Discussions like this one are at the same time both funny and sad, but, in addition, I’ve seen that they can add friction to family matters. I’ve resigned to let the chips fall where they may with loved ones.
Most Americans over the ago of 60 remember this well.
This fellow’s announcement reminds us the Big lie won’t be around forever. The percentage of Republican voters who still believe it is at 58%, but that’s down from 70% just a few months ago. It’s possible that the number of both voters and their representatives in Congress will slowly dwindle and finally, the whole concept of a stolen election simply fades from view.
OMG! I think I interviewed this guy for a chapter in my second book, “
If you are looking for data to support the proposition made at left, here’s something for you. During COVID, European airlines are flying near-empty planes all over the Continent, rather than keeping them on the ground, so they can retain the highly valuable gates at the airports. The idea of taking a financial hit and stop spewing poison into the atmosphere apparently never occurred to them.
When?!
