DONALD TRUMP'S MAGIC MIRROR, PART TWO

In my previous post I suggested Donald Trump projects his criminal behavior onto the people he sees in his Magic Mirror. He accuses these blameless folks of committing whatever acts of criminality Trump is in fact perpetrating himself.

Says he: Such disgraceful people!

(And this causes no trouble at all, right?)

Now I want to talk about Trump's mental state.

Specifically this: The man seems obsessed with what he perceives as Special Counsel Jack Smith's accelerating dementia.

In the old Soviet Union anybody who criticized the government might find themselves committed to an insane asylum. I think the idea was a person would have to be nuts to go up against the all-powerful state.

But that's not what's happening with Trump.

He says Smith is crazy for indicting him for Jan Six stuff and again for the documents case in Florida. Crazy. Not ill-advised. Not overly ambitious. Not politically partisan. Simon-pure crazy for bringing those charges.

And he doesn't mean crazy because Trump has billions of dollars to spend on high-powered lawyers who will run circles around Smith in court (not to mention thoroughly frustrate the man long before any court can get into session to even begin work).

No. He means crazy as in full-on demented.

Trump has literally predicted Smith will be institutionalized for uncontrolled lunacy in the very near future, locked up tight for mental issues in a world where the Trump indictments are mere symptoms of a far more serious cerebral failure.

Based on what?

Does Smith stand before cameras and rant about electric boats and lurking sharks? Is Smith obsessed with bird-slaughtering wind turbines or non-flushing toilets? Does Smith advocate injecting folks with bleach to kill the Covid-19 virus? Is Smith sucking up to the very fine folks on the neo-Nazi side of every argument?

Nope. The only thing Smith has ever done is indict Trump for very plausible crimes.

I have to conclude that something else is going on with Trump. Something deeper, darker, something hidden beneath the frothing whitecaps of Trump's mental ocean.

(Though maybe "parking lot puddle" is a more accurate description of this metaphorical body of water.)

It's likely Jack Smith is just a convenient target, a man who happens to be on Trump's radar. Below the surface it's all Trumpian mental defect, sussed out by his unconscious mind and projected, Magic Mirror style, onto the Special Counsel.

The more Trump grouses about Smith's mental state or—even more to the point—Joe Biden's growing deficiencies, the more likely it is the ex-president is (unconsciously, at least) worried about his own mental decline.

Here's an example of what I mean by mental decline: Not that long ago, at one of his free-form psychiatric sessions (I mean, rallies), Trump said: "We live in a country where we just found out that Russia and Saudi Arabia ..."

There followed a complicated spate of incoherent noises delivered with twisted facial expressions.

Was that a "covfefe" moment delivered in real time?

Or was the man suffering a stroke of some kind?

I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure this was not simply a case of Trump stumbling over an unfamiliar word that happened to pop up on his TelePrompTer.

Donald Trump is over 35 years old and a natural born citizen of this country. Beyond that he possesses virtually no qualifications for being president.

Clearly he disagrees, as do millions of MAGA voters. But this man, and those millions of his enthusiastic supporters, are all human beings.

And being human is hardly ever a good thing: We're stupid, crazy, and unaware of it.

Bottom line, I think you could make the case that a basic tenet of this blog is that virtually no human being is fit to be president.

Not that some of them aren't better fit than others.

In general, though, it sucks to be us.

And it's not just the general electorate that appears to find nothing amiss with Trump's mental swampware. Legions of Republican lawmakers are fully on board his 2024 campaign, singing Happy Birthday to the man, and so forth. Lot of frenzied hand-shaking going on. Marjorie Taylor Greene was giddy as a schoolgirl just to have Trump take notice of her.

Sounds like something I might have to get into in a future outing.