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The Age of Trump is a horror movie — we've reached the point where the monster is vanquished
The Age of Trump is a horror movie. We are now at the part of the movie where the "responsible" people finally accept the horrible truth that the monster, be it human or supernatural, is real. The people they made fun of and derided for being hysterical were right the whole time. Moreover, many if not all the people that the monster killed would likely still be alive if the so-called authority figures had taken the warnings seriously.
In this American horror story that is the Age of Trump, the mainstream news media, the responsible political class, and other leaders appear, at least for the moment, to have finally accepted the "shocking" and "unimaginable" truth that Donald Trump and his MAGA movement are an existential threat to the country. Trump is a monster who intends to follow through on every horrible threat and promise he has made when/if he returns to the White House.
What has finally shocked them into this apparent revelation?
Two weeks ago, Donald Trump publicly threatened the life of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, wishing that he had been executed for "treason". Of course, Donald Trump is lying; Gen. Milley has committed no such crime(s); Trump's accusations are psychological projections. Trump threatened Gen. Milley because of a featured profile that appeared in the Atlantic magazine, which confirmed that the ex-president possesses contempt and disgust for America's soldiers – especially disabled veterans and those who have been killed and injured. As I explained in a previous essay here at Salon, Trump also wants to see Gen. Milley killed because he actively tried to stop the traitor ex-president from ending the country's democracy.
The mainstream news media and political class – and many members of the public – have also been shocked into finally accepting the fact that Donald Trump is an extreme danger to the country as demonstrated by his escalating and increasingly violent threats and incitements to violence against Special Counsel Jack Smith, Attorney General Garland, and the judges, prosecutors, attorneys general, and other law enforcement (as well as jurors and witnesses) who are attempting to hold him accountable under the law in his upcoming criminal and civil trials.
For example, even CNN, which has been widely and deservedly criticized for trying to pivot and be more "fair" and "balanced" (i.e. motivated by ratings in order to make more ad revenue and other money) by giving Trump and other former regime members a platform to lie and circulate disinformation and propaganda, also sounded the alarm about Trump's increasing dangerousness as exemplified by his murderous threats against Gen. Milley.
There were also "centrists" and "moderate" reporters and journalists – a group that has been highly resistant to describing Trump and the MAGA movement in the proper terms as fascist and an extreme danger to American society — who were finally moved to accept that Trump is a public menace.
President Biden was clear and powerful in a speech and interview he gave last week, where he directly identified Trump and the MAGA movement as an existential danger to the nation.
Mental health professionals and other expert observers have continued to warn that Trump's recent behavior more generally (including a particularly troubling speech in California last weekend where he mocked Nancy Pelosi's husband who was viciously beaten in the head with a hammer by a mentally ill man) shows that the ex-president appears to be mentally decompensating as he is facing the reality, for the first time in his adult life, of being held accountable for his criminal and other antisocial behavior.
But just like in the horror movie, these new shouts of horror and shock at the monster in their midst may be too little and too late.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/age-trump-horror-movie-weve-094502048.html
The Age of Trump is a horror movie. We are now at the part of the movie where the "responsible" people finally accept the horrible truth that the monster, be it human or supernatural, is real. The people they made fun of and derided for being hysterical were right the whole time. Moreover, many if not all the people that the monster killed would likely still be alive if the so-called authority figures had taken the warnings seriously.
In this American horror story that is the Age of Trump, the mainstream news media, the responsible political class, and other leaders appear, at least for the moment, to have finally accepted the "shocking" and "unimaginable" truth that Donald Trump and his MAGA movement are an existential threat to the country. Trump is a monster who intends to follow through on every horrible threat and promise he has made when/if he returns to the White House.
What has finally shocked them into this apparent revelation?
Two weeks ago, Donald Trump publicly threatened the life of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, wishing that he had been executed for "treason". Of course, Donald Trump is lying; Gen. Milley has committed no such crime(s); Trump's accusations are psychological projections. Trump threatened Gen. Milley because of a featured profile that appeared in the Atlantic magazine, which confirmed that the ex-president possesses contempt and disgust for America's soldiers – especially disabled veterans and those who have been killed and injured. As I explained in a previous essay here at Salon, Trump also wants to see Gen. Milley killed because he actively tried to stop the traitor ex-president from ending the country's democracy.
The mainstream news media and political class – and many members of the public – have also been shocked into finally accepting the fact that Donald Trump is an extreme danger to the country as demonstrated by his escalating and increasingly violent threats and incitements to violence against Special Counsel Jack Smith, Attorney General Garland, and the judges, prosecutors, attorneys general, and other law enforcement (as well as jurors and witnesses) who are attempting to hold him accountable under the law in his upcoming criminal and civil trials.
For example, even CNN, which has been widely and deservedly criticized for trying to pivot and be more "fair" and "balanced" (i.e. motivated by ratings in order to make more ad revenue and other money) by giving Trump and other former regime members a platform to lie and circulate disinformation and propaganda, also sounded the alarm about Trump's increasing dangerousness as exemplified by his murderous threats against Gen. Milley.
There were also "centrists" and "moderate" reporters and journalists – a group that has been highly resistant to describing Trump and the MAGA movement in the proper terms as fascist and an extreme danger to American society — who were finally moved to accept that Trump is a public menace.
President Biden was clear and powerful in a speech and interview he gave last week, where he directly identified Trump and the MAGA movement as an existential danger to the nation.
Mental health professionals and other expert observers have continued to warn that Trump's recent behavior more generally (including a particularly troubling speech in California last weekend where he mocked Nancy Pelosi's husband who was viciously beaten in the head with a hammer by a mentally ill man) shows that the ex-president appears to be mentally decompensating as he is facing the reality, for the first time in his adult life, of being held accountable for his criminal and other antisocial behavior.
But just like in the horror movie, these new shouts of horror and shock at the monster in their midst may be too little and too late.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/age-trump-horror-movie-weve-094502048.html
