Trump And Trumpism Were Already Failing. The Iran Fiasco May Be Causing Something Akin To A Collapse

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Simon Rosenberg


Morning all. That Trump is no longer mentally competent isn’t really a question. For to understand how we got to where we are as a country you have to start by accepting that he is mad, and that he believes that he has the power to bend reality to his match his own imagined and fantastical world.

We see it on issue after issue. Trump says the economy is booming and prices falling; that foreign governments pay his tariffs; that he can just “take” other nations, like grabbing a pig-in-a-blanket from a waiter’s tray; that the 2020 election was stolen; that Iran would yield as the Venezuelan regime did due to overwhelming POWER and MIGHT and not attack the US, the Gulf Arab states, and close the Strait of Hormuz; that vaporizing USAID would not kill 15 million people, including 5 million children; that Americans would accept and welcome terror forces thrust on their communities in order to rid the nation of “those people”; that they are reforming the ACA, Medicaid, SNAP and not gutting them; that laws no longer apply to him and his regime; that tax cuts pay for themselves; that Putin wants peace; that truth itself is his to determine, and that all of us should be bending the knee to him, daily, like some medieval king.

In many ways the central project of Trumpism is this daily construction and defense of this imagined world so dear to him; of maintaining the fiction of Oz; of the pretending that indeed the orange Emperor is wearing his clothes. The “play’s the thing” Shakespeare once wrote. And so it is with the Trump regime. Every day.

The problem with all of this for Dear Leader, of course, is there is an objective world out there that he cannot bend to his malevolent will. People and nations have agency. Facts are stubborn things. Tariffs are in fact a tax on all of us and have re-ignited inflation, slowed the economy, and tanked his approval rating; nations do not want to be “taken” by him, and Iran was never going to follow the fantastical “Maduro model”; Americans did not accept the lawless assault on their communities; farmers and small business have been badly hurt by his tariffs, his mass deportations and now his war; the Supreme Court both invalidated his tariffs and blocked him from sending troops into our cities; a court just ruled that Bobbie Junior’s MAHA vaccine mysticism is illegal and dangerous; and of course the ghost of Epstein continues to torment our mad leader from his grave.

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-and-trumpism-were-already-failing

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1. That is a particularly incisive edition of Hopium Chronicles

It's what we've been picking up on in bits and pieces for months, that he's living in a delusional alt-reality.

I follow an economist from Australia who posted earlier this week about how he expects regime change will happen, this year, and he said he's not talking about Iran but America, and he was not referring to our elections.

Everybody knows it now. If NATO nations, our allies, are turning a deaf ear, we're reaching the end game of making him in all his gold and power, irrelevant.

[crud]

2. Dems need to start demanding his resignation. n/t

[regnaD kciN]

3. And, yet, he's still completely in power...

…with no signs of that ending.