MOSF 20.7: Americans May Disagree on Policy – But Trump is Pathology and Pro Wrestling Gone Way Bad
Trump has a delusional of grandeur - and his followers seem to believe his fakery
Hi all,
My latest at East Wind, a relatively brief essay that started as an newspaper Op-Ed submission, that was rejected.
I was quite proud of this sentence:
Trump is “An American experiment in arrogance that at best will end in embarrassment, at worst in a quite sudden and endless radioactive decay, as we attain the significance of nonexistence after telling a tale of sound, fury, and paranoid and homicidal resistance at a proposed reality of coexistence.”
I refer to
’s great work on his Substack and podcast:This fits in with Professor Kate Starbird’s insight that the right wing ecosphere works as an improv theater, with memes and spontaneous riffs feeding off each other and creating a self-reinforcing delusion.
(screenshot of Professor Starbird’s talk, A Spotlight on Rumors)
They must think we’re muggles, concerned about reality while they cast a media-riffic enchantment that steers our attention and the world.
I think we have a more powerful and creative imagination too - based on reality.
As Starbird says “we need to rage against the bullshit machine.”
Warmly,
Ravi