Lucky for Biden
That Covid came along otherwise he'd have nothing to run on! That's all he talks about to his crowd of 25! Funny thing is, we'd have 2 million deaths if He was president!
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RobinPhoenix · M
RobinPhoenix · M
@JT123 Since Donald Trump took office, there has been speculation about how a government led by him would prove itself in the event of a major domestic or foreign policy crisis. With the Corona crisis this is now becoming obvious. The government's crisis management has so far failed across the board because Trump is not able to get a grip on his destructive instincts. He follows three basic dispositions that have served him as a populist in the past, but which in this situation will cause enormous damage to the population in the United States and could mark his political end.
Narcissism, denial of reality and compulsive lying
First of all, there is his boundless narcissism, which leads to the fact that even now he is exclusively concerned with himself in every statement. According to this, the coronavirus is an unfair trap set by the Chinese, Europeans or Democrats. Guilt is always others, self-criticism is impossible. The ultimate goal of crisis management is and remains its own standing and re-election. This is accompanied by a breathtaking lack of empathy, which contributes to the fact that Trump views and treats the crisis almost exclusively as an economic crisis and not as the public health crisis it is in the first place.
This narcissism is carried by Trump's second disposition, the complete denial of reality. Trump assembles his view of the world as it suits him. In this world of desires, the virus is not a problem or will disappear within a very short time thanks to his impressive political leadership. Trump's contempt for experts and any form of independent science also comes into full play against this background.
And last but not least there is his habit of compulsively lying. Since taking office, Trump has publicly spread lies far more than 15,000 times. And this continues unabated now. He spreads false case numbers, claims without any foundation that there are millions of corona tests available for everyone, that there will soon be a vaccine and that everything is not that bad.
Fantasy world meets reality
With this behavior, Trump has managed in recent years to win over a large number of Republican voters in each of the numerous internal crises of his administration. No wonder he continues to do exactly that. With the active support of Fox News, social media and right-wing conspiracy theorists, he has constructed a parallel Republican world in which about 40 percent of the American population seems to feel comfortable. As a result, six out of ten Republican supporters currently do not expect the Corona crisis to have a major impact on their lives.
However, this Trump's model of success will only work if the reality of the citizens does not collide with it too obviously. And in the case of the Corona crisis, this is now reaching its limits. A spreading virus, which will potentially affect a large part of the American population directly, cannot simply be wished away or lied about. The increasing restriction of public life, school closures, the consequences of the lack of public services of general interest affect the reality of almost all citizens. The falling share prices reduce the private pension provision of most people every day. The expected recession will affect almost everyone. And the feared high number of deaths will not even stop at republican constituencies.
The USA will be particularly hard hit
Nevertheless, it is to be feared that Trump will continue in this way, with unrealistic slogans of perseverance and with a government apparatus whose dysfunctionality he himself has created. This is exacerbated by the fact that, compared with the early years of his administration, he has gathered only yes-men around him. Gone are the days when a few relatively independent heads sat at the cabinet table, headed central ministries and either openly contradicted Trump or acted pragmatically behind his back. Even in Congress, there are no longer any significant Republicans with backbone to stand up to Trump. Instead, Republicans continue to follow an ideology in which state institutions and a strong welfare state are per se the devil.
It is therefore to be feared that the crisis will hit the USA particularly hard. We are experiencing a toxic combination of a dysfunctional health care system, a lack of social security, a major public loss of confidence in state institutions and a federal government that refuses to face reality.
The harder the country will be affected, the faster the lies of Donald Trump will be spread in.
Narcissism, denial of reality and compulsive lying
First of all, there is his boundless narcissism, which leads to the fact that even now he is exclusively concerned with himself in every statement. According to this, the coronavirus is an unfair trap set by the Chinese, Europeans or Democrats. Guilt is always others, self-criticism is impossible. The ultimate goal of crisis management is and remains its own standing and re-election. This is accompanied by a breathtaking lack of empathy, which contributes to the fact that Trump views and treats the crisis almost exclusively as an economic crisis and not as the public health crisis it is in the first place.
This narcissism is carried by Trump's second disposition, the complete denial of reality. Trump assembles his view of the world as it suits him. In this world of desires, the virus is not a problem or will disappear within a very short time thanks to his impressive political leadership. Trump's contempt for experts and any form of independent science also comes into full play against this background.
And last but not least there is his habit of compulsively lying. Since taking office, Trump has publicly spread lies far more than 15,000 times. And this continues unabated now. He spreads false case numbers, claims without any foundation that there are millions of corona tests available for everyone, that there will soon be a vaccine and that everything is not that bad.
Fantasy world meets reality
With this behavior, Trump has managed in recent years to win over a large number of Republican voters in each of the numerous internal crises of his administration. No wonder he continues to do exactly that. With the active support of Fox News, social media and right-wing conspiracy theorists, he has constructed a parallel Republican world in which about 40 percent of the American population seems to feel comfortable. As a result, six out of ten Republican supporters currently do not expect the Corona crisis to have a major impact on their lives.
However, this Trump's model of success will only work if the reality of the citizens does not collide with it too obviously. And in the case of the Corona crisis, this is now reaching its limits. A spreading virus, which will potentially affect a large part of the American population directly, cannot simply be wished away or lied about. The increasing restriction of public life, school closures, the consequences of the lack of public services of general interest affect the reality of almost all citizens. The falling share prices reduce the private pension provision of most people every day. The expected recession will affect almost everyone. And the feared high number of deaths will not even stop at republican constituencies.
The USA will be particularly hard hit
Nevertheless, it is to be feared that Trump will continue in this way, with unrealistic slogans of perseverance and with a government apparatus whose dysfunctionality he himself has created. This is exacerbated by the fact that, compared with the early years of his administration, he has gathered only yes-men around him. Gone are the days when a few relatively independent heads sat at the cabinet table, headed central ministries and either openly contradicted Trump or acted pragmatically behind his back. Even in Congress, there are no longer any significant Republicans with backbone to stand up to Trump. Instead, Republicans continue to follow an ideology in which state institutions and a strong welfare state are per se the devil.
It is therefore to be feared that the crisis will hit the USA particularly hard. We are experiencing a toxic combination of a dysfunctional health care system, a lack of social security, a major public loss of confidence in state institutions and a federal government that refuses to face reality.
The harder the country will be affected, the faster the lies of Donald Trump will be spread in.
JT123 · M
JT123 · M
@RobinPhoenix What else can I say to someone so full of BS?
RobinPhoenix · M
@JeanAnna Believe me, I would rather not be right in this respect, because it makes me sad to see your beautiful country suffering so much. I really hope that he will not be re-elected so your country will find social peace again and that a president will govern who is worthy of this office and who wants all US americans to prosper and not only himself.