Not departing from his typical lie-filled delusional bile, the Malignant Loser gave a preview of what's in store for the coming year -- and beyond -- in his social media Christmas rants, and it's as ugly as you can imagine it would be. CNN's Stephen Collinson has a reaction:
"The ex-president unleashed an online torrent of fury and bitterness, largely over his legal plights, spanning Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, previewing the discord and personal obsessions he will inflict on the nation in a pivotal election year in 2024.
Trump raged at President Joe Biden and special counsel Jack Smith, making expansive and false claims that his attempts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election represented a vital defense of American democracy and were thus perfectly legal. In a tide of invective in block capitals on his Truth Social network, Trump escalated extreme rhetoric on immigration that has drawn comparisons to Nazi demagoguery in the 1940s and reprised his view of unlimited presidential power that has critics fearing autocracy if he wins the next election.
Just three weeks before voting starts in the Republican nominating race, the front-runner also underscored the extraordinary extent to which false claims about electoral fraud three years ago are still the anchor of his political project. And his tirades, at a time when Americans who celebrate Christmas gathered with loved ones and sought a moment of peace, hint at a furious state of mind and extreme denialism. These are likely to raise new concerns about his temperament and suitability to serve again as commander-in-chief and are a dark omen as to what another Trump term could bring." (our emphasis)
Everything about his rants screams me me me, and revenge for getting called on the felonies he's been committing in public and private office. Whether his election denialism is the result of a mental pathology or his refusal to admit he's a loser -- or both -- is almost irrelevant now, with a large chunk of the public reveling in his lies and rage in the same way citizens of Germany did in the 1930s with the Fuehrer. How there could be any sentient person who's unaware of his menace to democracy and freedom is hard to imagine, but they're out there in the millions.
