"...We have, thankfully, never seen anything like this president who believes he is the last word on anything that happens in the world. A commander-in-chief who acts independently of our Congress as if he was king. A chief executive who believes his domain is limitless and behaves like the emperor of the world.
"A man who behaves like a god, who gives and takes life like a god, who determines who to lift up and who to cast down like a god, who feels there is nothing to constrain him but his own conscience… but who is too disturbed and out of touch with reality to realize has no conscience or that he is just a man and a profoundly flawed one at that. [snip]
"And looking at what we are confronted with today and all the grim precedents in history for it, we also, if we are honest, realize that those who are most likely to argue they should hold a place above ordinary people are actually, in fact, the least of us, the most contemptible among us, the banes of our existence.
"And given that, it is up to us, if we wish to contain and ultimately defeat such threats to our well-being and to our world at large, to demythologize them and their power, to demystify their actions rather than to cloak them in the somber grey cloth of polite political discussions, to see them for who and what they are—to acknowledge them as lunatics and monsters." -- David Rothkopf, concluding an essay in his "Need to Know" Substack, on "Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters." Look around. It's not just the Malignant Fascist and his regime of lunatics and monsters. It's all those little everyday lunatics and monsters who enable him, support him, follow him. He may be the worst (he is), but he has plenty of company.
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