"Trump has shrunk the U.S. government down to himself" "No morally healthy country would put this man in power twice"

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

'Clearly a psychopath': Theorist warns 'morally insane' USA has bigger problems than Trump

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fitness-for-office-2676705182/

Alan Elrod recently published a piece for Liberal Currents analyzing Trump's second presidency and what it means for the future of American politics, and he spoke with The New Republic's Greg Sargent about his findings.

"Yes, that is damning," Elrod said. "It’s damning of the Americans who voted for him, but it’s also more generally damning — and I’m sure you want to get into this — of just where the country is as a whole, that this kind of person has been able to dominate our politics for a decade, and that so many Americans are in a place to be, I think, persuaded and seduced by the politics he’s offering."
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Trump has shrunk the U.S. government down to himself, Elrod said, and he lamented the conditions that led voters to grant him that power.

“We cannot pretend that we are well as a nation," Elord wrote in his essay. "No morally healthy country would put this man in power twice. We have become a morally insane, civically disordered, and self-regardingly decadent country.”

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1. Does this mean Grover Norquist will drown him in a bathtub?

Asking for an entire country...

[FalloutShelter]

2. Cannot disagreed with this statement:

“We have become a morally insane, civically disordered, and self-regardingly decadent country.”

[Mysterian]

7. Fundamental flaws in our constitution allowed a minority, backed by billionaires,

to take total control of our government. The minority, republican party members, are the morally bankrupt among us.

Until we have rid ourselves of the electoral college and the undemocratic apportionment of senators, we will continue down the road to complete failure as a state --- unless we are already there. I still have hope we can cure ourselves, as the Hungarians are doing now.

[tanyev]

3. I read the Raw Story piece and I clicked through to Elrod's article.

He’s not wrong, but not once does he mention the REPUBLICAN PARTY. Yes, many Americans are tuned out and yes, there are quite a few things Democrats could have done differently, but when the party in power is willing to do just about anything to stay in power, that is the crux of the problem. Our system is not set up to withstand extreme gerrymandering, media manipulation by complicit billionaires and social media manipulation by foreign actors.

[tonkatoy8888]

4. Trump has shrunk the U.S. government down to himself...

Does that mean we can drown it in a bathtub?

[ColoringFool]

5. "Have become"? As in, just since the Trump Era?! I've got a ....

a bridge from AND SOME TRUE AMERICAN HISTORY from 1492 on to sell this writer.

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[Johonny]

6. I fear Trump voters

There's no way they won't make the same mistake over and over...

They have given up on America and themselves.