Stunning takedown of Trump from a very conservative columnist

[dixiegrrrrl]

We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar.

He is thus the all-time record-holder of the Dunning-Kruger effect, the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence. Trump thought he’d be celebrated for firing James Comey. He thought his press coverage would grow wildly positive once he won the nomination. He is perpetually surprised because reality does not comport with his fantasies.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/trump-classified-data.html

[skylucy]

1. Yep!

[superpatriotman]

2. He has reached his Peter Principle

The height of his competence.










It's a long way down, shithead

[L. Coyote]

3. K & R

Link to tweet

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

4. Brooks, it would appear, is profoundly ignorant . . .

. . . as are so many of those who seek to "criticize" Trump. He doesn't get it. Trump is profoundly mentally ill. He is a malignant narcissist. That is the beginning, and the end, of the explanation for Trump.

As Brook's piece ends:

“We badly want to understand Trump, to grasp him,” David Roberts writes in Vox. “It might give us some sense of control, or at least an ability to predict what he will do next. But what if there’s nothing to understand? What if there is no there there?”

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Precisely. There is no "there there." That's the point. With a malignant narcissist, there's nothing "there" to "understand."

Trump himself isn't the most frightening thing about Trump. The most frightening thing is how many people, who are purportedly trying to understand what's going on, miss the picture entirely. Brooks himself is rather obviously dimwitted.