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“Disinformation and conspiracism spread in spread in advanced individualistic democracies like the United States not because their targets are sheeplike but because, to the contrary, so many people are active collaborators in their own deception.” Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge

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My Trump-supporting friends still say, “This man loves America so much that he declines his salary and serves for free.” But through corruption, influence peddling and insider trading, Trump will leave the presidency billions richer for having served. That’s billions with a B.

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King Trump ignores the Constitution and accepts a “palace in the sky” as a gift while telling little girls how many dolls they need for Christmas. Chairman Trump centrally plans prices and calls all who disagree “communists.”

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Trump slathers over his anti-American and anti-Christian ways with thick coats of Americanism and Christianism to convince people that he’s fighting for America and Christianity. And the millions who want to believe that do.

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Few will fight for what they know to be a lie but will do so only when convinced the lie is true. Propagandists mobilize the masses by inverting truth and lies.

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The president who exerts central control over the economy calls anyone who disagrees with him a “communist.”

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If your point is weak, strongly call your opponent a “communist,” “far left liberal” or “woke” and some will think you’ve won the argument.

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Trump’s great power is creating an alternate reality bubble and convincing millions that truth only exists inside that bubble.

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Some question if Trump is pathological or incompetent. If one’s pathology keeps them from ever admitting mistakes, accepting others’ input, having a plan, or gaining knowledge, they’ll behave incompetently. So, his pathology produces incompetence. It always has and always will.

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To the extent that Trump has any principles, there is one that governs his life more than any other: Might makes right. This principle is neither American nor Christian.

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Never in my adult life have I seen America living up less to its ideals or to its supposed Christian principles than since January 20, 2025.

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Trump poo-poos Constitutional restraints, plans a multi-million dollar military parade on his birthday, fantasizes openly about territorial expansion, and tells little girls how many dolls they should own. All while calling his opponents “communists” or “far left radicals.”

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Turning a blind eye to injustice corrupts the one turning the blind eye. And with each turn, they become increasingly blind.

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Trump conflates himself with America so to oppose him is to oppose America. Only those who say, “I support my president (Trump)” are true Americans and all others are “radical left lunatics”—his favorite phrase for anyone who disagrees with him about anything. It’s so unAmerican.

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The worse Trump reveals himself to be (like posting pictures of himself as Pope Don John 1), the more his defenders rally to his side.

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Under Trump, cruelty is called greatness, allies are called moochers, enemies are called allies, lies are called truth, truth is called dishonesty, loyalty is called virtue, empathy is called weakness (or wokeness), history is called fake & re-written history is called history.

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Trump needs praise and adulation like the rest of us need food and water. Cabinet meetings are like all-you-can-eat buffets for Trump where cabinet members, sitting behind carefully-placed MAGA hats, fill Trump with the food of praise until he burps and the meeting ends.

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For Trump, truth is whatever he says it is—whatever he needs it to be—in any given moment. He casts any and all countering evidence presented as “fake” and labels all who present that evidence as “dishonest” and does so vigorously, confidently and shamelessly. That’s his schtick.

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"I Run the Country and the World." Donald J. Trump This self-view is neither American nor Christian.

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Where Trump’s critics see a wannabe dictator and his toadies, Trump’s supporters see something else. They see a commander and his generals. They see warriors. My thoughts on how MAGA sees the cabinet and how MAGA defines courage -- as standing with Donald Trump: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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I’m watching a documentary about people electing a strong leader who promised protection from scum within their country, people being arrested with no due process and taken to foreign prison camps, people wondering how such things could happen. The setting was 1930’s Germany.

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I can’t find a better movie line that better parallels Trump at this moment than that of Lord Voldemort in the first Harry Potter: “There is no good and evil. There is only power and those to weak to seek it.”

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Trump has convinced millions of people that giving him unlimited power will advance freedom. It’s an old con of people willing to be conned.

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An arrogant, self-obsessed leader is like lighter fluid squirted on a charcoal fire. It’s briefly impressive before burning off your face.

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An arrogant leader uses fear to scare people and calls that power. A humble leader cares for people and the power speaks for itself.

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Sending someone to a gulag without due process is akin to lynching. Both promote lawlessness while pretending to promote justice. And neither promotes American ideals nor Christianity.

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Trump filled a bottle with a poisonous brew of power, cruelty, vengeance and strongman rule, dripped in a couple of conservative drops, glues a label onto the bottle that says, “Conservatism” and sells those bottles to followers willing to blindly drink the poison.

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Trump told the president of El Salvador that he needed to build more prisons so that the U.S. could start sending, not just immigrants, but our “homegrowns” there. U.S. Citizens, homegrown criminals. Trump is a convicted felon—a homegrown criminal.

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Freedom of speech is a threat to those trying to protect a story they are passing off as “truth.”

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In WW II, one of the great things the United States did was to help liberate the death camps. Now, we’re sending people to death camps and calling that great.

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Trump: 1) Rules like a king—what our founders tried to prevent 2) Ignores checks on his power by the other two branches 3) Demands praise—a $92M military parade is being planned on his birthday. A better slogan than MAGA would be: “Mine is the kingdom, the power and the glory.”

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Every day, Trump seems more drunk on power than he was the day before. Every. Day.

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In Trumpworld, documented history is called “fake” and rewritten history is called “history.”

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Here's something else I wrote in my 2019 essay about Trump:

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Like any society comprised of fallen humans, America is a mix of positive and negative aspects. Those aspects of us that are indeed great are systematically being degraded by Trump and his enablers. Under Trump, we are degenerating into the worst versions of ourselves.

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Trump is an arsonist his followers call the greatest fireman in history and if they don’t tell him that regularly, he’ll burn down their houses.

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It’s startling how much power one can gain and maintain if they are completely devoid of shame.

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I wrote a 6300-word essay in 2019 about the dangers of Trump. I then wrote another 5100+ words in October of 2000 just before he lost to Biden (an election he still says he won by a “landslide”). The following excerpt from that second essay is far more pertinent now than then:

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Banning books, deportations to gulags without due process, rattling the global economy, cutting services that fight disease & starvation, threatening news outlets & law firms, squelching free speech, defunding medical research, discouraging vaccines. All to make America “great.”

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Trump has no interest in truth. He’s only interested in the power to determine what’s true. The millions who cede him that power now believe that truth is whatever Trump says it is. And he’s drunk on that power.

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The combination of one unwilling to ever admit being wrong with those unwilling to tell him he’s wrong is like combining nitro with glycerin.

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Imagine being in a car driven by a man who’s so thin-skinned that he steps on the accelerator when you point out that he went the wrong way down a one-way street. America is now speeding in a car driven by that man who ignores all the signs and brags about his driving.

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Yesterday’s Hands Off events around the country will be trashed by Trumpworld as nothing more than protests of deranged far-left radicals who hate America. At the one I attended in Nashville, the crowd sang God Bless America and This Land is My Land.

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Many accused of revisionist history were simply trying to correct history that had long ago been revised. So, to silence them now means putting the revised version back in place and calling it “history”—the history one wants to believe.

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Many accused of revisionist history were simply trying to correct history that had long ago been revised. So, to silence them now means putting the revised version back in place and calling it “history”—the history one wants to believe.

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I grew up in Jackson, MS which was also home to Robert P. Jones, the author of White Too Long. I was struck with the accuracy of his recounting of events in Jim Crow Mississippi, for I was there. His book has now been banned from the US Naval Academy. Demagogues fear truth.

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Authoritarians know that if you find out what people want to be true (even if they suspect it’s false) and tell them it is true confidently and continuously, many will then call the falsehood truth and exalt you as their courageous truth teller. It’s a long-used collective con.

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