This jerk is clueless. He lives in denial.
And his importance is fed by Repubs like Joke McConnell and turncoat Bhoener.
“He lives in denial.”
It’s more than denial. It’s a state of being ‘convinced’ that your opinions and actions are superior. It’s very common amongst ideologues and academics - and he is clearly an ideologue, and likely thinks of himself of somewhat of an academic (you just know he will wind up with a nominal Professorship at one or more Ivy university after the Presidency).
I remember Van Jones talking about US economics, and he basically said that it’s not that we don’t have enough money, it’s just that it isn’t distributed correctly. That view allows him to totally miss the reality of our national debt, and the fact that confiscating the wealth of the richest wouldn’t fix the problem. That type of ideological blindness is ubiquitous.
Imagine—its late 1944—Gobbles comes on the German State Controled Radio and says; “The Fatherland is not losing the war against the Gangster West! We are not withdrawing in the face of the Americans and British—we are tightenting our lines. The Fall of Paris is only a minor ‘setback’. We will win the war! Any other talk will be only defeatism in the cause of National Socialism.”