Apparently, the president* was up early on Wednesday, tweeting out dangerous nonsense. First, he retweeted some noxious sewage
from the deputy leader of Britain First, a virulently Islamophobic
organization. Then, in the wake of the firing of Matt Lauer by NBC, the
president* went after NBC and MSNBC, even alluding to an unfortunate
episode in Joe Scarborough’s past that has been grist for conspiratorial
speculation for two decades. This was not just the president* running
off at the fingertips again. This was an incitement to violence. This
was a president* calling out for the destruction of a news organization
that has criticized him. This was out-and-out fascism.
The morning’s frenzy has to be seen in the light of what is now a steady drumbeat of stories from inside the White House that, taken together, paint a portrait of a president* completely detached from the reality of his circumstances. In recent days, thanks to White House sources who are plainly terrified, we have learned that the president* still thinks his predecessor may have been born in Kenya, still thinks millions of illegal votes cost him the popular vote in 2016, and, strangest of all, that he thinks the infamous Access Hollywood tape may have been faked. This latter business is new and bizarre but, as to birtherism and the hijacking of the ballot, his adherence to those fantastical conspiracies makes him virtually no different from most of the Republicans who voted for him. Which, by the way, is on the people in my business as much as it is on anyone else.
I have resisted for a long while commenting at length on the president*’s possible mental state, in large part because long-distance psychological speculation always revolted me. (Remember Charles Krauthammer, a trained psychiatrist, speculating about Al Gore’s mental health? I do.) But the fact that these stories are leaking out now is a pretty good indicator that the people in and around this president* are worried about him. From The New York Times:
Read more: The President Is Losing Whatever Was Left
The morning’s frenzy has to be seen in the light of what is now a steady drumbeat of stories from inside the White House that, taken together, paint a portrait of a president* completely detached from the reality of his circumstances. In recent days, thanks to White House sources who are plainly terrified, we have learned that the president* still thinks his predecessor may have been born in Kenya, still thinks millions of illegal votes cost him the popular vote in 2016, and, strangest of all, that he thinks the infamous Access Hollywood tape may have been faked. This latter business is new and bizarre but, as to birtherism and the hijacking of the ballot, his adherence to those fantastical conspiracies makes him virtually no different from most of the Republicans who voted for him. Which, by the way, is on the people in my business as much as it is on anyone else.
I have resisted for a long while commenting at length on the president*’s possible mental state, in large part because long-distance psychological speculation always revolted me. (Remember Charles Krauthammer, a trained psychiatrist, speculating about Al Gore’s mental health? I do.) But the fact that these stories are leaking out now is a pretty good indicator that the people in and around this president* are worried about him. From The New York Times:
Read more: The President Is Losing Whatever Was Left
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