Hater-in-chief
It’s strange, I’ve just noticed, having a soon-to-be president who has expressed angry, loud, hostile contempt for most of the population.
You’d think someone campaigning for the job would think of that and decide it might not be such a good idea.
I realize he endeared himself to a segment of angry white people, but he did it at the price of wholly alienating massive demographics. That’s not usually how presidential campaigns play out. We get candidates who seem brutally indifferent to our concerns and needs, but not ones who get up at 3 a.m to express furious contempt for us.
I don’t see this working out well. He’s lit a whole bunch of fuses, and he has no plans to stamp them out, and we can’t forget that he’s the one who lit them.
We haven’t done this before. Maybe Nixon was a little like that. You got the feeling that Nixon hated everyone, but you didn’t have hours of tv footage or hundreds of tweets in which he told us so.
No, I just can’t see this working out well.
I just had to step out of my classroom for a few minutes because my students were discussing the election. They were insistent that the only people that were irritated about this were LGBTQ. One of the students was “Well, so what if he’s a racist? Nearly everyone is.”
How scary the world is getting. I think there are definitely monsters under the bed.
Oh, god.
If he really means* that he wants to be “President of all Americans” then he’d better start walking back some of those campaign blurtings PDQ. (Unless of course he just solves the dilemma by re-defining the word “American”, which seems an uncomfortably likely possibility).
*I tend to think his utterances never mean anything in the sense of expressing a belief or intent. They’re just whatever floated into his head and seemed like it would get a good reaction.
Yes, I think that too. It’s obvious that he’s not a thoughtful guy.
Some more recent revelations indicate that Nixon’s most toxic (often late night) declarations, were made while he was legless drunk.
The matter of trying to understand what Trump actually means, or stands for, is on par with astrology. The man really thinks that when he closes his eyes, the consequences of his actions go away.
A comment in the NY Times’ article on Leonard Cohen:
“Leonard Cohen and Donald Trump: the sacred and the profane…”
(I met Cohen several times because my friend lives two doors away from his long-time Montreal home in the lower-class Plateau neighbourhood; as well as his art, a true “mensch”.)