Opinion: Biden is right: Trump's wounded ego was the main reason for Jan. 6

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In what may be the most powerful speech of his presidency so far, President Biden delivered a searing (and overdue) indictment on Thursday of his predecessor — never mentioned by name — for inciting a mob attack on the Capitol exactly a year ago. Biden identified the central truth of the insurrection: “The former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election … because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. He can’t accept he lost.”

That’s exactly right. There was no higher principle at operation on Jan. 6. This was not a battle over tax cuts, abortion, immigration, infrastructure, vaccine mandates or any other policy — none of which former president Donald Trump seems to care much about anyway, save to the extent that they are useful chum to excite his followers into a frenzy. Trump was willing to stage an assault on more than two centuries of democracy in America simply because his all-encompassing ego will not allow him to admit that he was repudiated by more than 81.2 million voters.

And most Republicans, it is now clear, seem just fine with that. A party that once stood for certain principles — lower taxes, traditional values, a strong defense — has been reduced to a cult of personality for a narcissistic television personality. The GOP didn’t even have a policy platform in 2020. What is normally a lengthy document listing positions on issues big and small was reduced to a one-page statement affirming “that the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.” Trump-first agenda is more like it.

Remarkably enough, Republicans’ desire to cater to the whims of the orange emperor has not lessened in the past year despite his loss of power (and his Twitter account). The Republican National Committee — whose chair, Ronna McDaniel, dropped the “Romney” from her name to appease Trump — even agreed last month to pay up to $1.6 million of the former president’s personal legal bills in investigations of his shady business practices. The probes of Trump by New York prosecutors have nothing to do with his actions in office. But the RNC has become his personal piggy bank. Indeed, the entire Republican Party has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump Organization.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/06/bidens-speech-identified-terrible-truth-jan-6-insurrection/

[Irish_Dem]

1. To save face, Trump will bring down the entire country and our democracy.

He never cared that he was killing Americans with his Covid rhetoric.
He doesn't care how much damage and devastation he causes.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. True, though remember trump himself is one of the if not the dumbest adult on earth.

He plans nothing, if he says the word "glumpf" and the crowd cheers, he will repeat "glumpf" a few million times.

If he could imprison or put to death his political opponents he would do it in a heartbeat, but most people dont believe that so guess what, it is EXACTLY what he will be able to do before long.

Bannon and few others that actually have brains are going to do what they can to destroy us.

[Irish_Dem]

6. I used to think he was stupid, but now I think he has a cunning side.

Yes he is stupid in many ways. If he were smarter he would be much more dangerous.

But he has a cunning side to his narcissism and sociopathy.

Yes there are some brains who drive the GOP war against democracy.
But they are arrogant and sometimes sloppy.

I think the people who are really smart are the money people.
The oligarchs who fund the war against democracy.

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. OK, and you use the word "cunning" which is technically correct

having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion.

Good job finding the one word he can own.

I am sickened to DEATH there are as many as there are Americans who worship this scumbag, and I have them in my own family.

I have no hope, at all.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Trump is such a g-damn buffoon that the cunning side is easy to miss.

Sometimes even a low IQ person has some street smarts.

We might chalk it up to luck or someone else guiding him 100% of the time.
But as time goes on, the cunning side is more apparent.

Perhaps at one time he was smarter. He is now mentally ill, with cognitive slippage, possibility of dementia. Long term drug abuse (stimulants).

Well Eliot, I am more cynical than most. I agree, the outlook is bleak for our democracy. The GOP sociopaths have had a taste of the amount of power and wealth an autocratic form of government will give them.

They are going full bore on dismantling our voting system. We are at war, they are battling state by state for control. Like when Hitler invaded Poland, people dither and do nothing.

Perhaps Biden's speech is a turning point. We are motivated to fight back.

[Anaico]

2. He will try to do it again

We should be alert.

[Deuxcents]

4. I'm pretty sure we are.

I’m totally not happy that he n his whatever ya call them..try to twist the events around to confuse and alternate the facts.. not gonna happen. The need to not stay silent with the agenda and just how this event came to be is important to not stop spreading this information. I fear some are w/o hope but there are many who may just need the facts n timeline info and will realize the truth. I pray.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. They appear to me to be targeting TFG's bruised ego

Two words caught my attention. VP Harris characterized his supporters' ideas as "bent", and Pres. Biden called TFG's trying to convince America that Election Day 2020 was the real insurrection as "twisted".

Yup, we are taking the high road and forcefully so, and have truth and logic and sanity along for the ride. Unlike TFG.

[Thomas Hurt]

7. It wasn't even his "wounded" ego. It was just his ego.

I believe the Pig was intent on being President for as many terms as he could legally or illegally obtain before he dropped dead.

[Blue Owl]

9. His big fat ego can go to hell

And take the rest of his hollow, flaccid shell with it.