Posted on 07/27/2019 9:23:29 AM PDT by bitt
Like many others, I have for some time been trying to understand Trump Derangement Syndrome, the phenomenon of otherwise reasonable people reacting irrationally to some peculiar quality of the president, a quality especially in evidence when he is in the presence of his supporters.
Some of it is easy enough to comprehend. Unlike any president since at least Jackson, Mr. Trump was elected by attacking the entire political class from right to left and practically all leaders of both parties and the parties themselves. He managed to stir up enough discontent to win the nomination of one of the parties and then got just enough votes in the right places to win the election.
Since Mr. Trump had opposed everyone in both parties, they all opposed him, and the Republicans, almost as much as the Democrats, wanted to get rid of him. If there had been any truth at all to the gigantic fatuity about Trump-campaign collusion with Russia, there would have been bipartisan enthusiasm and relief in throwing him out of the White House like a large dead mouse.
Mr. Trump was not only the first president who had never sought or held a public office, elected or unelected, or a military position. He also had no knowledge of the official procedures and attitudes in the upper approaches to the presidency. As he had changed parties seven times in 13 years looking for his chance to try the novel theory of turning celebrity, and often rather crass celebrity, into electability, and had countered press skepticism with social-media direct contact with the people, supplemented by support on the talk-radio circuit, which generally enlists the attention of a lower-middle- and working-class demographic, he had no cadre of political loyalists to assist him.
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A more interesting question is why the right wing Establishment hates him.
Why would you call him a center right Democrat? That is ludicrous.
“ “No. I know Puerto Rico. I did a great job for Puerto Rico — great place. I know it better than anyone,”
What he is saying is not egocentric it is (maybe in Queensian”) that the governor there is an idiot and needs to be removed from office. If they don’t know what the US did for them but, rather than publicly appreciate what trump did as president post hurricane, condemn trump and the US and misuse tge aid, the governor needs to go. The leadership is terrible
He makes them look stupid and they are quite aware of it.
OK - how about a center-left Republican?
Trump's policies on spending and deficits are not Conservative.
Trump's policies on immigration and foreign workers are pure political theater.
Trump is either completely helpless, or he is not even trying.
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