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| Donald Trump: the US self appointed Fuhrer |
A
history professor of mine once attempted to explain to our class why
Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, when the virtual impossibility of
a land invasion of a country as vast as Russia was already well known
in 1941.
The answer, he concluded, was that Hitler was put on earth to
invade Russia. His loathing of Bolshevism, his twisted Darwinian mania
for the acquisition of land and resources, and his fixation with his own
military genius all led him to a decision that was both inevitable and
impossible.
This
is a good way to think about President Trump’s approach toward the
Robert Mueller investigation. Trump is not a Nazi or a fascist, and I am
not drawing any moral parallel between the two. The similarity, rather,
lies in the way an apparently irrational decision can be made logical
and necessary by a certain kind of twisted internal logic that can
escape outsiders. I have long believed Trump is headed toward a
confrontation with Mueller, and those who doubt he will finally take the
plunge are making the mistake of judging Trump by the standards of a
normal president and not his own demonstrated pathologies. The
sacking of FBI staffer Andrew McCabe for alleged unauthorized leaking to the news media, and
comments by Trump’s lawyer John Dowd calling for the firing or Robert Mueller add to an ominous drumbeat.
Read more: Trump Is Taking Out His Enemies And Turning Toward Mueller
