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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Why Trump Will Never Be President

The President of the United States is not only the head of his party and the head of government, he is also the head of state.  That means the person who holds the job must also be the representative of the entire nation. 

Donald Trump is not the president of all of the American citizens.  He is the president of "his people."

That means that anything that doesn't appeal to his narrow and bigoted band of supporters is not important.  Given that he is also a narcissist, nothing that doesn't appeal to himself is also not important.  Trump can never speak to the voice of the nation, which means he can live (part time) in the White House, and he will have the Presidential Seal, but he will never really be a true president.

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