Sunday, May 12, 2019

Trump: His Living Gospel

"The psyche of the broad masses is accessible only to what is strong and uncompromising.
Like a woman whose inner sensibilities are not so much is under the sway of abstract reasoning but are always subject to the influence of a vague emotional longing for the strength that completes her being, and who would rather bow to the strong man than dominate the weakling."

Guess who wrote that?

You know it wasn't Donald Trump, because it has complete sentences and no internal repetition or digression. 
If Donald Trump had written it, it might go something like this:

"You know, I know you know, what we need. We really need it. It's not getting screwed. It's winning. We like winners, here. Not captives. Winners. Really. You know. People with the best words who don't get captured. So true.
Women like that  in a man. Especially if he's a celebrity. Women love me. So do Hispanics. Hispanics love me. Big time. Hispanic women love me especially. Miss Argentina could not keep her hands off me. They just love me. Hugely. 
And you know why? They like somebody they can't boss around. Somebody, really, who might just boss THEM around. Cause that's what women want, deep down. They do. They want winners. Not captives. They don't want to be captives.Well, maybe they do. I don't know. It's possible. But they want winners."

Or something like that.

But the Donald likely got that insight from somewhere. Hard to imagine him from drawing on life experience.

He keeps only one book on his bedside table. People say that. Just one book. Really, I saw it on Fox News. On the bedside table, next to his bed. Where he and Melania sleep. Well, where he sleeps. It's not clear the Secret Service trusts Melania to sleep with him.

Some people say she doesn't really like him that much. 
How they know that, I couldn't say. Despises him. Really. Can't see how anyone would know that. But people say that. They do. So sad. They do, though.

Where would he get that book, anyway?
Roy Cohn give it to him?
Or did he find it on his own?

It's pretty boring, really. The guy who wrote it did not even finish high school. He's, like, always explaining things most people learn in high school, as if it's some great insight he came up with himself: like people who are raised in poverty often are raised in dysfunctional families, because families need money and not having it makes them dysfunctional, and gross and mean and not very nice. 
It's the "Hillbilly Elegy" thing, only in 1923. Guys from the hood, or the hollow, just signifying.

Well, duh, Adolf. 
"Mein Kampf" is a little slow. I mean, you expect something more scintillating, actually, from the master of mayhem, but actually, pretty boring, sad to say, pretty pedestrian, or, as Hannah Arendt observed, "the banality of evil."



But, apparently, it speaks to Donald, who is nothing if not banal. 
He does have the best words, though. People say so.


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