Mary Trump - There's No Turning This Sinking Ship Around
Deepening social divides along political lines thanks to Donald’s penchant for division; a tanking economy thanks to Donald’s disastrous economic policies; devastating uncertainty about our country’s future thanks to a regime that is following the fascist playbook specifically designed for the purpose—we are in the middle of a perfect storm of catastrophes that no one is less equipped than Donald to manage. He’d be incapable even if he wanted to not because Donald likes things just the way they are—the chaos, the fear, the anger—but because there’s a new twist here that he can’t adjust to—he’s lost the ability to control the narrative. The strategy of lying, spinning, and obfuscating isn’t effective anymore and where, at least to a certain group of people, he looked strong, forceful, and full of fight, he now appears diminished to the point of impotence.
So how does he escape this particular nightmare he’s slept his way into? Well, he can’t. He knows it and it’s driving him crazier than he already was.
Part of the problem for Donald—and for us—is that he has, in some sense, always been institutionalized, shielded from his limitations or his need to succeed on his own in the world because there was always somebody there with more money and more intelligence and more power to bail him out, prop him up, or burnish the myth. My grandparents’ house, and Trump Tower and the West Wing, are all controlled environments in which Donald’s material needs have always been taken care of by other people. His jobs have been a series of sinecures in which the work was done by others (though he happily took credit for it), and Donald has never needed to acquire expertise. All of this has protected him from acknowledging—or suffering the consequences of—own failures.
He’s never had to do an honest day’s work in his life, and no matter how badly he’s failed, he’s been rewarded in ways that are almost unfathomable. He continues to be protected from his own disasters in the White House, where a group of loyalists applauds his every pronouncement or normalizes his criminality to the point that many of us have become numb to the accumulating transgressions. Now, however, unlike any other time in his life, Donald’s failings can neither be hidden nor ignored because even people who support him are feeling the negative effects of his disastrous second term.
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