This week’s new vocabulary is “decompensate”. Psychiatrists use the term to describe mental patients who are completely losing themselves… well, acting like former President Donald J. Trump: Taking the Nazis to dinner , to abolish the Constitution and demand that he be reinstated, possibly for life.
And deny the words you wrote.
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and would-be Führer’s niece, has long predicted things like this. Shortly after the 2020 presidential election, she told Politico’s Michael Kruse, “He escaped.” I’ve never been in a situation where I couldn’t be beaten in. For a pathological narcissist, being seen as a loser equates to “mental death,” warns a psychiatrist. These days, with her uncle’s legal troubles mounting and walls closing down, Mary Trump fears the worst.
“I don’t know what information he has about other people in the party,” she told MSNBC last week. The thing is…Donald burns everything when he feels he’s down—that can’t be taken lightly. We ignore him at our peril.”
If he was a real gangster, they would have beaten him up.
But this isn’t “The Sopranos” on HBO or Fox News.
Who’s likely to be the first target of Trump’s wrath? Partly because most Trump idolaters don’t know what it means, and partly because Trump himself may not. It has a ring with a line attached to it.
In the eyes of those who see DeSantis as “Trump with a brain,” perhaps more ominously, the former president told The Wall Street Journal about his rival for the 2024 presidential nomination: not. It’s not very flattering. I know him better than anyone, except his wife who actually runs his campaign. ”
Sounds like a bluff to me. Trump always knows everything better than anyone else. General, doctor, you name it.
Sure he does.
However, DeSantis has an ambitious wife who is totally in favor of the president’s ambitions. recognized as the brains behind the The Blues Brothers” with no song.
Things have to be seen to be believed. It opens like a biblical documentary, with dramatic images of the Earth as seen from space.
“And on the eighth day,” the low-voiced announcer chimes in. That’s why God made fighter planes. ”
Cuts to a series of video clips of DeSantis and various civic groups. Each clip repeats the slogan “So God Made Fighters.”
I use “Ron DeLusional” as a nickname, but I tend not to meet his political opponents — Democratic school board member, University of Florida liberal professor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Mickey Mouse (DeSantis Disney World over gay rights) — as an enemy of God.
Admittedly, the idea is both laughable and offensive.
As reported by The New York Times’ Frank Bruni, DeSantis urged the audience before a forum at right-wing Hillsdale College in Michigan last February. He is adamantly opposed to leftist tactics. You will face flaming arrows, but if you have the Shield of Faith, you will overcome them.
Hmm. In Southern politics, we hear stories of this kind of tent revival all the time. Uncompromising and exhausting people, it rarely succeeds over time. What’s rare is hearing it from a politician like DeSantis, who has a law degree from Harvard and graduated from Yale.
So he scored a 19-point victory over the washed-up Democratic opponents. No one is promoting him as a presidential candidate. Filled with Yankee Snowbirds, Florida is now fully Republican.
More than anything Trump, who was likely convicted of a felony before 2024, can say about him, it’s DeSantis’ perceived personal shortcomings that tend to keep him out of the White House. Unlike Trump, he comes across as didactic and humorless. People describe him with the word “robot”.
“Oddballs without weird eye contact,” says Republican consultant Rick Wilson. A Tallahassee lobbyist told The Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich, “I’d rather have a tooth pulled without anesthesia than on a boat with Ron DeSantis.”
Politicians driven by pure anger ultimately wear people down.
Arkansas Times columnist Gene Lyons is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of The Hunting of the President.
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