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Anyone who still doesn’t realize that Donald Trump’s unfitness for office makes him a clear and present danger is obtuse or perverse or both.
It is pertinent to ask: what’s the matter with them?
A question of more immediate urgency, however, is: what’s the matter with Trump?
Why is he so dead set on making life worse for all but his class brothers and sisters, and why is he so reckless on matters of war and peace – even to the point of pushing the Doomsday Clock right up to the brink of midnight?
There are some who think the problem lies between his ears. Among them, are those who think that his problem is clinical; narcissistic personality disorder is a widely suggested diagnosis.
However, political commentators ought to leave clinical diagnoses to professionals; especially when patently obvious explanations that require no particular expertise to make are illuminating enough.
It is obvious, for example, that the man is a hapless buffoon with authoritarian leanings that render him temperamentally unsuited to lead a country – especially one with an historically weak state and deeply entrenched, though perpetually embattled, liberal traditions.
It is also obvious that Trump’s ignorance is breathtaking and that he is, as his Secretary of State aptly said, “a fucking moron.”
Large swathes of the electorate already knew that even before the 2016 election season got underway.
Since the inevitable Democratic nominee,…