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https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/23/trump-clarification-syndrome/Trump Clarification Syndrome
August 23, 2019 at 5:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
David Remnick: As perilous and unnerving as things are, any form of political despair at such a moment remains unforgivable. Despair is a form of self-indulgence, a dodge. Trumps derangements in policy and character should instead instill a kind of Trump Clarification Syndrome, a reckoning with what confronts us.
A reckoning, as the Amazon rain forest burns, with climate change. A reckoning, as Trump threatens to revoke the barest protections for immigrant children and the guarantee of birthright citizenship, with the history and persistence of bigotry in all forms. With the structural persistence of inequality of income and opportunity. With matters of truth and falsehood.
Trumps presence in the White House is depressing, there is no doubt, but to wallow in that gloom, or even to imagine that public life will return to normal on its own after his departure, is insufficient, even inexcusable. Democrats, Independents, and Republicans who cannot countenance Trumpist politics ought to welcome the most urgent kind of political debate on matters of policy and on who we are as a country. Perhaps it is a form of derangement to say it, but its entirely possible that Donald Trump, who has been such a ruinous figure on the public scene, has at least done the country an unintended service by clarifying some of our deepest flaws and looming dangers in his uniquely lurid light.
A reckoning, as the Amazon rain forest burns, with climate change. A reckoning, as Trump threatens to revoke the barest protections for immigrant children and the guarantee of birthright citizenship, with the history and persistence of bigotry in all forms. With the structural persistence of inequality of income and opportunity. With matters of truth and falsehood.
Trumps presence in the White House is depressing, there is no doubt, but to wallow in that gloom, or even to imagine that public life will return to normal on its own after his departure, is insufficient, even inexcusable. Democrats, Independents, and Republicans who cannot countenance Trumpist politics ought to welcome the most urgent kind of political debate on matters of policy and on who we are as a country. Perhaps it is a form of derangement to say it, but its entirely possible that Donald Trump, who has been such a ruinous figure on the public scene, has at least done the country an unintended service by clarifying some of our deepest flaws and looming dangers in his uniquely lurid light.
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Trump Clarification Syndrome (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2019
OP
Was in my head but could not express it. But this was it. Perturbing, but mb valid.
sprinkleeninow
Aug 2019
#2
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)1. Remnick is good. Also resp w/ "Suckered by Billionaires Stndrome"
Whenever anyone drops Trump Derangement Shndrome I just shake my head sadly and say You obviously have Suckered by Billionaires Syndrome. Good luck paying back that $2 trillion tax cut Republicans stuck you with.
sprinkleeninow
(20,246 posts)2. Was in my head but could not express it. But this was it. Perturbing, but mb valid.
"Perhaps it is a form of derangement to say it, but its entirely possible that Donald Trump, who has been such a ruinous figure on the public scene, has at least done the country an unintended service by clarifying some of our deepest flaws and looming dangers in his uniquely lurid light.