It isn’t only that Donald Trump is as petty and narcissistic a figure as we’ve ever seen in our national life, it’s that he shares traits with every brutal authoritarian dictator, as Allen Clifton argues persuasively in his piece “5 Traits Donald Trump Shares With Nearly Every Brutal, Authoritarian Dictator” from ForwardProgressives (see below)
How Trump gets away without any reaction from his own supporters when he denies the obvious, most recently that his inauguration crowd had only one-quarter (if that) of those who attended Barak Obama’s 2009 inauguration (1.7 million), and that he spends his first day as President attacking the legitimate press for reporting real news, is unfathomable to me.
I remember so well as a kid watching Jiminy Cricket on Sunday night’s Disney hour teaching the physics principle – “To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
Trump’s borderline personality and his threats to American democracy without shame can’t last forever. I’m hoping (yay – praying) that by the end of 2017 at the latest, we will witness the pendulum suddenly shift direction and bring us back to a measure of national sanity.
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It is the most frightening thing I hv ever seen and he has surrounded himself with people who don’t try to stop him as they r all looking for their own power. When I saw him press person reading the speech about the amount of people at the inauguration I almost felt sorry for his press person as according to the “talking heads” he is a nice guy. I saw at the walk in LA yesterday and there were many young people and families with children..it gave me a little hope but we must keep marching. In the last years I hv seen too many people sell their souls to the devil. Marilyn
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Thank you John, I just read the Five Traits that Tumps Shares and this certainly is the case. Hopefully this country can endure and Trump for a few years, I do believe that he won’t make it through his third year.
Temple Israel Shabbot Services should be filling up more with so many of us in need of comfort from what is happening now.