I’m not being funny. It is a serious question. Who stays up at night issuing strange messages on social media? Who has that much antipathy toward people he thinks are enemies? Who would want to name tunnels and buildings and ships after himself? Who would want to build a giant arch, or issue a National Park pass with his picture, or rename the Gulf of Mexico, or rip down a portion of the White House, or take credit for all kinds of things he had nothing to do with. Who would show so much anger at reporters, or threaten so many people, or spout so much nonsense in a non-ending stream?
I really believe he has crossed the line between being strange and being mentally ill. My fear is that this won’t be recognized by enough people around him, and many of those people he surrounds himself with actually have a major self-interest in seeing that he stays in power.
I thought Nixon was a terrible president, but it never occurred to me that Nixon would launch a nuclear war for some kind of personal vendetta. With Trump I think that is quite possible. It is something that should be discussed openly–and soon.
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