Charles M. Blow lays everything out in the open about our Cry Baby in Chief in his NY Time’s column today. He also explains why his base laps it up like kittens do warm milk.
It is in this near perfect state of perpetual aggrievement that Trump gives voice to a faction of America that also feels aggrieved. Trump won because he whines. He whines in a way that makes the weak feel less vulnerable and more vicious. He makes feeling sorry for himself feel like fighting back.
In this way he was a perfect reflection of the new Whiny Right. Trump is its instrument, articulation, embodiment. He’s not so much representative of it but of an idea — the waning power of whiteness, privilege, patriarchy, access, and the cultural and economic surety that accrues to the possessors of such. Trump represents their emerging status of victims-in-their-own-minds.
He also touches upon Dear Leader’s need for narcissistic fuel in the way of his rallies and tweeting. These are all traits of a malignant narcissist aka psychopath that he touches upon.
He may keep himself busy with things he considers to be work, but his definition of that word and mine do not seem to be in alignment. Twitter tantrums, obsessive television viewing, holding campaign-style rallies to feed his narcissistic need for adulation. Those things to me do not signal competence, but rather profound neurosis. True productivity leaves little space for this extreme protestation.
And, not only is he a lazy whiner, he’s also a projectionist: He is so consumed by his insecurities that he projects them onto others. Trump branded Ted Cruz a liar, when he himself wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped him in the face. He blasted Hillary Clinton as being crooked, when he himself was crooked. He sneered at President Obama’s work ethic — among many other things — but Trump’s own work ethic has been found severely wanting.
He goes on to discuss further the goal of Trump and his people of MAGA by turning the clocks back to the 50’s. That these are not mere squabbles over policy but are instead a very real battle that has continued on since the Civil War. You really need to read the entire article and I don’t want to put too much here but he really goes in hard. He connected all the dots with biting commentary that cuts it to the bone. The POTUS is unwell and we must stand up for OUR country.