Trump has always been a bullshitter. What that means to refresh your memory is that Trump does not care what the truth is. A liar does and actively does the opposite, whereas a bullshitter is really just seeing what he can get away with.
It seems every day we see Trump saying more and more things divorced from any sense of reality. He said he was going to bring down prescription drug prices 1000%. If you understand math, I'll give you a moment to weep quietly. He says that gas is $2 a gallon. He says that America has taken in trillions in tariff duties.
On the one hand, we can chalk this up to him being a bullshitter and simply not caring. This, however, feels inadequate to the moment. He's WAY beyond bullshit here. This is delusional stuff. If I had to guess we have his habitual bullshitting and we have the fact that no one will call him on anything. If there is a salient fact that distinguishes Trump 2.0 from Trump 1.0, it is the absence of anyone pushing back on his bullshit.
This gives us the Mad King vibe we see in his pronouncements. This gibbering nonsense, the frequent explosions of word salad, all of this is the actions of a not terribly bright man who is slipping into senescence but who has no one to tell him that he's full of shit. You think Melania will? Anyone of the toadies who congregate around him?
The problem is that it's not only his rhetoric that's nuts. Is anyone willing to tell him the cost of the Hyundai raid? Is anyone going to point out the lunacy of RFK Jr's purge of actual health experts? We know he doesn't give a shit about civil rights and liberties, but will anyone tell him that what's used against Jimmy Kimmel can be used against conservatives?
Republican congressfolks won't do it. The media won't do it. I have my doubts about the courts, once it gets to the Supreme Court.
It will have to be us.
No comments:
Post a Comment