With each and every passing day, I continue to find myself thinking, “Surely Donald Trump can’t get much worse than this.” Yet every single day… He does.
And according to one Pulitzer Prize-winning author, we are nowhere near the peak of derangement we can expect out of Trump and his administration as things continue to unravel for Trump and he faces a landslide defeat in just a few short months.
David K. Shipler is an American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1987 for his book Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land and also penned the book The Working Poor: Invisible in America.
And according to him, in a piece for Washington Monthly, we still have a lot to be concerned about.
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Shipler opened his article with this warning:
As President Trump’s poll numbers slip four months before the election, he and his frenzied staff have launched an end game of wild thrashing that could bring further damage to a country they pretend to love.”
“The closer defeat looms, the more desperate the death throes of a deranged administration. It lunges for levers of power and propaganda,” Shipler’s piece continues. “It undermines institutions that stand above politics. It smears physicians who work for the public’s health. It attempts to conceal pandemic data, Soviet-style. It issues absurd decrees to local school boards to open in the fall or else. It dispatches unidentified federal forces to kidnap peaceful protesters. It flails out against measures to ease voting. And these are only the omens. A final spasm—if it is final—seems likely.”
Shipler goes on to note that “[i]nsurgencies, dictatorships, and the like often tend toward untamed outrages as they are backed into a corner and face annihilation,” before pointing out that we, as a nation, have seen very similar tendencies out of Donald Trump himself.
“If there is a glaring lesson from the Trump era, it is how easily compromised are the nation’s founding principles, how deferent to autocratic aims are those who wear the camouflage of liberty: Congressional Republicans, right-wing broadcast personalities, self-righteous evangelicals, flinty citizens who make a show of individualism and resistance,” he writes.
“Trump’s mental and emotional disabilities have infected many under him, and they in turn create a loop of reinforcement for his most destructive impulses,” Shipler continues as he makes his point from the behaviors we’ve seen from the likes of Besty Devos, Chad Wolf, and even Bill Barr.
“His obvious brain dysfunctions prevent him from processing information, reasoning logically, remembering what he said a minute earlier, and governing effectively. He cannot stand anyone smarter or more popular than him, so his economic adviser, Peter Navarro, and anonymous acolytes try to take down Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose credibility in polls far exceeds Trump’s,” the terrifying piece goes on.
Shipler wraps up his article by wondering:
Is it possible that his mental defect means that he doesn’t realize that the actual incidence of infection is a fact independent of how many are detected by tests? Or is he just trying to fool his fellow Americans? And how many will be fooled? Or frightened?
We’ll find out in November.”
Frankly, November can’t get here fast enough.
You can read Shipler’s full article here.
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