MSNBC'S Zeeshan Aleem examines why the Malignant Fascist's risible lies about his popularity are more than just reflections of his extreme narcissism:
"Trump seemingly made the "60’s and even 70’s" numbers up out of thin air — or he is misleadingly referring to some kind of polling reflecting his own party's approval of him, which remains high. But I find it harder to laugh off Trump's misinformation and disinformation about his purported popularity the way I once did. It's not just a project of narcissism. It's a narrative designed to frame all of his actions — including authoritarian ones — as backed by an incontestable popular mandate.
When Trump was rejected by the American public in the 2020 election, he tried to do everything in his power, from lawfare to inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol, to deny that reality. If a weaker-than-expected jobs report threatens to undermine Trump's narrative that he's improving the economy, he simply cans a person at the agency behind it.
Now as Trump oversees an illegitimate military occupation of the nation's capital, he's claiming that there is clear popular appetite for an autocrat to lead America. 'A lot of people are saying, "Maybe we’d like a dictator," Trump told the press Monday morning. The polls don't show that, either — but if Trump gets everything he wants, he won't need to care." (our emphasis)
"Alternative facts" were a feature of the MF's first term, intended to protect his fragile and sick ego from imploding. Now, they're a tool of his authoritarian takeover of our democratic institutions to impose fascism on America. That has to be opposed with actual facts and resistance at every turn.
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