I’m independent, you’re eccentric, he’s a raging psychopath
Ah yes, let’s pretend Trump is an “independent” – as opposed to a ruthless self-serving shit.
President Trump demonstrated this past week that he still imagines himself a solitary cowboy as he abandoned Republican congressional leaders to forge a short-term fiscal deal with Democrats. Although elected as a Republican last year, Mr. Trump has shown in the nearly eight months in office that he is, in many ways, the first independent to hold the presidency since the advent of the current two-party system around the time of the Civil War.
Oh bollocks. All presidents quarrel with their own parties at times. What Trump does isn’t “independence” in that political sense, it’s just a mix of childish self-will and incoherence and zero impulse-control.
In recent weeks, he has quarreled more with fellow Republicans than with the opposition, blasting congressional leaders on Twitter, ousting former party officials in his White House, embracing primary challenges to incumbent lawmakers who defied him and blaming Republican figures for not advancing his policy agenda.
Yes no kidding, and that’s because he’s a narcissist and a psychopath, plus a greedy ignorant pig.
“The truth is that he is a political independent, and he obviously won the nomination and the presidency by disrupting a lot of norms that Republicans had assumed about their own party and their own voters,” said Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist, a conservative website. “This week was the first time he struck out and did something completely at odds with what the Republican leadership and establishment would want him to do in this position.”
Right, he’s “an independent” the way those teenagers who threw smoke bombs into the Columbia Gorge and started a massive forest fire were “independents.” He’s a reckless thoughtless mindless clown. That is being “independent” in a way…but not in the way Ben Domenech was using the word.
If independent means not normal…then yes. Trump licks the hairs off GOP backsides. Yes. He’s independent. The standalone coward who pretends not to be simultaneously tiny and obese.
He’s only an independent when the Republicans don’t want to claim him. When he’s doing things they like, and bringing voters to the party, then he’s Republican, and they’re all good with that. But embarrassing the party by failing to condemn Nazis? Cutting a deal with Democrats? Oh, he’s an independent.
I think we have a bit of “No True Scotsman” going here.
Oh, and another thought…all two year olds (chronological or emotional) are “independents” – which really just means they don’t know much about the world, and they like breaking stuff.
So he disrupted a lot of Republican “norms,” but this week was the first time he actually did something at odds with what the Republican leadership “would want him to do.”
Well okey dokey then.
It’s just too damn bad this supposed mavericky “independence” of Trump’s never seems to threaten that Immediate Profit for the Few principle O talked about in her previous post. If it did then maybe the bastards would finally impeach him.