Frank's Musings

Donald J. Trump himself believes the world is nothing more than a figment of imagination. In his mind, all others might as well also live in their own fantasy worlds. Therefore, it doesn’t matter what he or anyone else does.  If we have learned anything from four years under a Trump administration of the U.S. Government, it is the danger of entrusting the leadership of our country to the rule of someone who personally has never had to believe that anything outside of his own mind has any objective reality.

There are many ways in which this was evident from his behavior before his election victory in 2016, to wit his tax frauds, his financial scams, his repeated divorces, his sexual gallivanting, his ignorance of history and social mores, his total disregard of social and commercial obligations, etc.  Luckily for him, those and other traits were consistent with the frustration felt by large numbers of the voting public at their perceived unfair treatment by society.   As a result, he was recognized as a convenient standard bearer for an American political party that needed a way to game the electoral process and win control of society’s powers of taxation and regulation.

Alas, it turned out to be a deal with the devil.  The next presidential election turned the Republicans out of power, although by only the narrowest of margins.  However, if the Biden administration can succeed in restoring government to service pf the best interests of the majority of the people it should be able to widen its congressional majority and assure its reelection in 2024, too. 

 Certainly, his abandonment of Matt Gaetz illustrates the continuance of Trump’s pattern of behavior.  Indeed, it is textbook solipsism.  The mystifying thing about it has been the unshakable allegiance that Trump enjoys from his supporters.  There is enough of it to make him and others think that should there again be weakened support of the electorate for centrist and progressive policies as bedeviled the Clinton campaign in 2016, a Trumpist election campaign could win in 2024.