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Aug 20, 2020Liked by John Stoehr

Two days in a row, John. Two days (and counting) Raw Story has you up as the banner headliner! Congrats!

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Aug 20, 2020Liked by John Stoehr

There is a tendency to assign motives to the chaos that is Trump. My personal analysis is that there is no single motive for most actions of and statements by Trump. His mind is the original 'swamp'. Within its confines lies a black hole of endless need for attention and adulation, a reflexive need to annihilate both criticisms and criticizers, a reptilian sense of self-preservation, a nihilistic and corrupt view of humanity that exploits the weak-willed and corrupts the cynical, and finally, the gangster's understanding that justice can be delayed and too often, denied. These motivations are inseparable from one another in the primordial sewage that is our commander-in-chief. He is simultaneously unable to believe that he will ever face accountability and willing to burn the universe to save himself. There are no questions about Trump that I care to learn the answers to...the only real mystery is why so many Americans have fashioned him into their 21st-century golden idol.

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