This blog site has been operative for 17 years. Over the years, I've averaged 500 readers/day. For some reason, my blog yesterday, MARCH MADNESS, 15 CRAIGSIDE, BROADWAY and LUCY, drew more than 6,000 people. I don't know why, for this was just a hodgepodge of assorted and minor things on my mind.
There Is No Method to Trump's Madness. He's Simply Insane. Some tidbits.
- “They say an old man is twice a child,” Rosencrantz remarks in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as he and the prince of Denmark observe Polonius. It’s a borrowed line, dating back to antiquity: Sophocles wrote, “For the aged man is once again a child.” We all recognize that old age can cause senility and fragility. And when a person is already inclined toward delusion, that trait can become more entrenched and grandiose over time. The irony in Rosencrantz’s comment is that he is speaking with a character who is both feigning madness and possibly descending into it. Polonius, in fact, is the one to note that Hamlet’s act may produce certain benefits, declaring, “Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t.”
- That seemed to be CNBC economic analyst Steve Liesman’s conclusion last week about President Donald Trump’s tariffs. “I’m going to say this at risk of my job,” Liesman said, “but what President Trump is doing is insane. It is absolutely insane … and now he’s saying he’s putting 50 percent tariffs on Canada unless they agree to become the fifty-first state. That is insane. There’s just no other way of describing it.”
- Worse still, his delusions are echoing throughout his administration. His aides, advisers, Cabinet appointees, and other defenders are going to ridiculous lengths to invent methods for Trump’s madness.
- Practically everyone in Trump’s orbit is there solely because they’ve shown a willingness to go to great lengths to entertain his delusions and stroke his ego.
- Some of you might argue that Trump isn’t mad, but just a psychopath feigning madness for his own ends. Or perhaps his ludicrous assertions began as convenient foils and have morphed into true delusions. After all, he’s had plenty of people telling him he’s right.
Our Constitution has in the past well provided for a check and balance government of the executive, legislative and judicial branches. However, I think that our forefathers screwed up by not providing any enforcement power for the judiciary. Their effectiveness only comes from depending on the president's Department of Justice to deliver on any judicial decision. If President Trump, who purposefully found an Attorney General that worships him, plus a Defense Department with a secretary that merely follows what Trump wants, and he chooses not to comply with any judicial judgement, Donald Trump automatically becomes a dictator.
- Abraham Lincoln did exercise extraordinary powers....but to PRESERVE the Union. Plus, this was during the crisis of the Civil War.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt was dictatorial, but not really a dictator. Read this 1941 article from The Atlantic.
- President Trump today has total control of the U.S. Congress.
- The higher any judicial decision, the better, for no judge up to the Supreme Court has any enforcement capability.
- There is a terrible flaw in the Constitution. The judicial system depends on the Department of Justice to handle enforcement. President Trump runs that department, and also the Department of Defense.
- He was not in control of the Defense Department on 6January2021 when he made his first coup attempt.
- Trump now has all the power he needs to defy the judiciary, and if that does not sufficiently make him a dictator, then he or his successor can just forever postpone any future elections.
- He is one step away from becoming a dictator.
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