Trump is "delusional at the core," will live in "fantasyland till the day he dies"

[marmar]

(Salon) Contrary to what the hope-peddlers and other members of "the Church of the Savvy" would like the public to believe, none of this is normal or ultimately "harmless". Everything is not OK.

Donald Trump and his allies are continuing with their efforts to nullify the results of the 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden's victory. Trump's attacks on democracy are a de facto coup attempt which includes not just "legal" tactics but intimidation and threats of violence. Last Saturday night, dozens of Trump's unofficial paramilitaries surrounded the home of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

Instead of properly reporting on the unprecedented attempts by a United States president to usurp the will of the American people in order to remain in power indefinitely — and the larger strategy by the Republican Party to create a new American apartheid – too many in the mainstream news media are looking ahead to the Biden administration and convincing themselves that by ignoring or minimizing Trump's attacks all will somehow be fine in January.

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Trump has publicly shown himself to be not just mentally unwell but perhaps even a sociopath or psychopath. Sick leaders attract sick followers. Sick leaders also amplify the various mental and other pathologies of their followers and inner circle. Sick leaders channel and therefore worsen the most unhealthy and unjust aspects of a given society. In all, Trumpism is a type of collective social and civic disease spreading throughout America. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/08/dr-lance-dodes-trump-is-delusional-at-the-core-will-live-in-fantasyland-till-the-day-he-dies/

[C_U_L8R]

1. As long as he has other people's money to spend, he won't stop

But the minute it hits his own wallet, it will be a very different story. His post inauguration legal trouble will be very consuming.

[blitzen]

2. No, he's a bullshitter. n/t

[Cha]

3. Of course he will.. it's America's

Shame that he ever got in Position to Destroy America.

[The Wielding Truth]

4. Just like he denied assaulting all those women and denied extorting defense money from Ukraine

and just like he denied us his taxes and just like pushed his daughter and son in law into our White House without clearance and denied Russian influence and just like he denied the killing COVID, when he knew its potential.

God, I cold go on for years.

No more of this mind bending psychopath! Peaceful transition cannot come fast enough.

[bdamomma]

5. He needs to be run out of the country

just go away.

[underpants]

6. Frankly the final big decider in the election was simply that he's an asshole

and people are tired of it. Tired I everyday.

The right wing is doing some serious statistical analysis. They all have all these percentages and theories and what have you but it all boils down to two things:
Voter turnout (ease and options)
Trump is an asshole

Look at what they held on to down ballots. Law and Order really did sell well but with Trump people just didn’t like him. The virus pressers were a complete disaster. Way to up close and personal every day.

[Maven]

7. "Church of the Savvy" is a good term. I call it the Cult of the Status Quo.

Those who believe at their core that real change isn't possible and that the status quo will endure. So much so that they consciously disregard an attempted coup because to acknowledge it would run contrary to their belief that everything will return to normal. They cannot fathom that the entire GOP as an organization is all-in on one-party rule. Instead, they pretend that Republicans are simply "cowards" who will return to sanity and bipartisan cooperation once the threat of Trump is gone.

They fancy themselves "realists" but they are detached from reality.