No, you are not going crazy.
While it’s true that “rolling shock” machine that is the Trump Regime finds new ways to outrage and mystify us every day, we should know, by now, what they are really up to.
It is easy to get outrage fatigue, but that bonkers Nazi-sympathizing press conference from yesterday seems like it might be the beginning of the end.
Of course, he’ll likely get what remains of his minions to keep spouting the lies, but who still believes them? The whole regime has tried a massive Gaslight experiment on the country—whether they know it or not. That was the movie where a man tried to slowly make his wife think she was going insane in order to enrich himself. And like that criminal, Trump is a shell of a man. But this shell has also convinced millions that he has a vision for the country. But he’s got nothing.
Even the left fell for it, with many of my far left friends thinking the Russia fever was just a Cold War cover for Hillary’s shocking loss. But even if every awful thing said about Hillary Clinton is true (which it’s not) some things are bigger than one election. It has become obvious that Trump and company have been deeply compromised by Putin’s Russia. It is not a battle of ideology or culture, either. It is just a straight up criminal conspiracy aimed at keeping all the interested parties rich. And it is tough for normal people who don’t think like criminals to understand that. But think mafia, not Marxism, to understand what is going on here.
That also explains his sudden doubling down on white supremacy. Those are his people, and he’s under siege, so he’s closing ranks.
He’s an agent of chaos, and has always been. He merely tapped into something, this time, that reached a significant portion of the American public. It didn’t even reach the majority, but it didn’t need to.
I know good people who claim we need to reach out to Trump voters, and address their needs. I disagree. Yes, economic inequality and political parties controlled by wealthy elites have ripped the American Dream to shreds. But that is not what got people to Trump rallies, and what keeps them defending him even as he proves again and again that he has no real interest in helping the average American. But I do think that we need to call out the white hot irrational rage that made them vote for such an obvious fraud.
Because when he’s gone from the White House—and he will be—we still have that rage to contend with.