"... The picture [Trump] paints is one in which everyone — individual people, countries, the world as a whole — is an eternal spectator in a constant state of awe, slack-jawed in amazement at either events as they unfold or, more often, the greatness of Trump and his accomplishments. Everything he does is something no one has ever seen before, and our purpose is to stand back and behold him in his glory.
"This is the
perspective of a man whose brain has been poisoned by his life-long
pursuit of fame and admiration. He exists only if he’s being watched,
and his decisions are good only so far as they are seen. This is why
Trump is the purest expression of this cursed moment in cultural
history: He is every fame-lusting Real Housewife, every hungry
influencer trying to boost their middling follower count, every
looksmaxxing douchebro, taken to a terrifying extreme..." -- Paul Waldman, in his "The Cross Section" Substack, on the Malignant Fascist's twisted psychology, and the one phrase that explains it. (It's there in the first paragraph above.)
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