Wednesday, September 28, 2022

The Trump Mystery


Nice night at the Edgewood library at a talk by Ken Gormley. A very productive guy. Has a new fiction book after several serious non-fiction.

The Pirates picked two guys off the wire and started them.


The Trump Mystery

Trump is a blustering, exaggerating, obnoxious guy. He doesn't have much of a political philosophy. He came to power 'riding a horse he neither bred nor raised.' A disruptive populist anti-politician his supporters identify with. Yet his opponents hate him. Hate him. And that hatred runs the risk of bleeding into his supporters. What has stimulated the incredible animosity toward a guy who is more of a caricature of a politician than a politician? 
Or, is that--and his cartoon presidency--the point? Maybe the people who revere political power just cannot stand to see it debased.

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