Wednesday, February 08, 2017
Overthrowing Trump
Like the Serbian demagogues Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic,
Donald Trump fabricates his own reality through malignant rhetoric.
While tapping into constituent resentments, observes
Peter Maass, Trump–like the notorious war criminals–attacks journalists
who report truths he doesn’t like. In this ‘twilight zone of lies’,
repeating Trump’s audacious claims only serves to help obscure the
truth–something those unacquainted with the principles of psychological
warfare fail to understand. Given that most liberals fall into this
category, it will perhaps fall on Trump’s core constituencies ‘who
realize their hero had conned them’ to overthrow the bombastic tyrant.
