Rick Wilson: The great crackup: Trump is coming even more undone

[babylonsister]

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The great crackup: Trump is coming even more undone
By Rick Wilson
New York Daily News |
Aug 24, 2019 | 6:45 PM


“Our great American companies are hereby ordered...”

The subtle meter in Americans’ brains that tracks the degree to which the universe seems off its axis has been in a state of constant flux since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, but this week the needle slammed hard into the peg on the right side of the gauge. Red warning lights are flashing across Washington as even the now-typical levels of uncertainty and political chaos reach epic proportions.

It’s almost as if we need a recalibration of the insanity of the Trump era, a new set of definitions about what comprises normal presidential behavior.

Because what’s happening now left normal five towns back, stopped for smokes and brown liquor, and tossed the GPS out the window. This week wasn’t normal, and no amount of whistling past the graveyard will make it any different.

Donald Trump’s affect, speech patterns and overall delivery this week have been alternately horrifying and hilarious. A combination of waking hallucinations, verbal tics, lies surpassing even his usual fabulist standard, aphasias and lunatic blurtings, each public utterance was a moment where the eye of his aides either popped or rolled, depending on their level of cynicism.

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Nothing about the week we just lived through is comforting. Nothing about it can be excused or ignored. Donald Trump is not a well man. Here in the dog days of August, Washington should be its usual sleepy self, the political class having wisely fled the humidity and misery of D.C. Instead, Trump’s performance left people both inside and out of the political class wondering about the president’s sanity and fitness for office.

Most states have some form of involuntary commitment law for people who are a danger to themselves and others. In my home state of Florida, it’s called the Baker Act, and I’ve seen it applied to run of the mill folks up to state legislators. It only takes a competent family member and one other adult to get the ball rolling on Baker Acting someone. So I’m thinking about Trump’s next visit to Mar-A-Lago.

Melania, call me.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Hey Rick, tell us how you really feel!

That man has a way with words.

[Hekate]

2. Thanks, Babs.

[orangecrush]

3. Remember the Bush years

When every day he seemed to outdo himself with the idiotic crap that came out of his mouth, and each time we kept hoping that he had finally crossed the line when congress would take action to remove him,, WHILE WE HELD BOTH BRANCHES?

Didn't happen then, ain't gonna happen now.

Praying we actually have another election.

[MontanaMama]

4. Has Rick Wilson

left the repuke party yet?

[JohnnyRingo]

5. I recommend reading the entire article.

Wilson is a prolific writer any day of the week, but this one is frighteningly hammer on a nail.
Sometimes it's reassuring to know I'm not hallucinating the whole thing.

[pangaia]

6. It's REPUBLICANS, god damn it.

Everybody's gotta stop sucking on trump.

REPUBLICANS are the terrorists taking down our country !!!


Go after REPUBLICANS !!

Shit, how blind can people be???



BTW, I get to play Mahler 4 in a couple weeks..
Whew!!

[Midnight Writer]

7. Exactly! Trump is just the culmination of Republican evolution.

[madaboutharry]

8. Just for one moment

imaging the crazy we don’t see and hear. I guarantee that what we see is only a fraction of Trump’s madness. The situation we are in in much more grave than we think.

[skylucy]

9. Totally agree with you on this. Things are even worse than

what we are seeing in public.

[colsohlibgal]

10. He Is Clinically Insane

He is a self absorbed delusional psycho. He is what he is and I am astounded he gets the support he does.

To be sure he has been a useful fool/tool for the Koch family and their type.

We are in the most perilous time in my lifetime, I hope we come out of it OK.