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The Enlightened Use of Donald Trump
How to turn Trump into a useful symbol of nature’s inhumanity
It’s easy to feel victimized by Donald Trump. Here’s a malignant narcissist who’s theoretically the world’s most powerful man, who views every situation as zero sum and who has contempt for losers and especially for anyone who doesn’t respect what he considers to be his magnificence, even though he’s far from being a self-made winner.
As president, Trump is perfectly positioned to wipe his behind with the Constitution of the United States and to piss on America’s grave, which he does at every opportunity, figuratively speaking. Most gallingly, he’s the beneficiary of the dark miracle of escaping any comeuppance for his innumerable debacles. Assuming there are little gremlins out there perpetrating that miracle, one of those critters is Trump’s incapacity for feeling shame. Is there anyone on the planet more deserving to feel embarrassed for what he is and for what he’s done, who’s simultaneously the least capable of such principled suffering?
Assuming, then, you’re an ordinary person, more or less struggling to get by, burdened by a conscience and with a normal, sometimes debilitating degree of self-awareness, President Trump has nothing but contempt for you. You’re a loser in his eyes. At best, you or I would be a mark that falls…
