Donald Trump is a psychopathic criminal. He is a racist, fascist cult leader determined to destroy American democracy.
Those facts must be repeated over and over this year, because so many Americans appear willing to re-elect him president.
Source: Don’t Normalize Donald Trump
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No surprise there. … Meanwhile, many of Trump’s faithful followers still perceive him as a genius robbed of presidential glory and, long before the 2020 presidential election and January 6 insurrection, believe his fantasy about him challenging the Deep State. As for “the swamp” he claimed to be draining, he himself was a part of it.
A revelatory review (by Geoff Olson, 01/10/2018) of the book The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy, however, notes that the book’s author describes big oil CEOs and lobbyists in the U.S. as being a very large part of the American Deep State.
Therefore, it would be a large part of the national Capitol’s swamp that Trump claims has corrupted DC and, ergo, was supposedly seeking to destroy him and his presidency.
However, considering the Trump administration’s kowtowing to big fossil fuel (mostly via the recklessly significant loosening of environmental protections), he, far from genuinely trying to “drain the swamp”, also wallowed in it.
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“This notion of a supranational deep state does not seem to be far-fetched to me, though I remain agnostic about rumors involving the [Trump administration’s] Offal Office. I certainly don’t buy the alt-right notion that Trump is playing ‘four-dimensional chess’ against the deep state. The six-time bankruptee would probably lose at checkers to a nine-year old and tweet that he whipped Garry Kasparov.”
—Geoff Olson, “A Deep State of Confusion”
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