There is a great deal of debate going on in this country at the moment. It centers around the guy who lost the popular vote in the last election. Is he mentally ill, or is he stupid, is he a conscious liar, or is he some malevolent combination of all of the above? I could see the partisans of any side of this argument using this as evidence:
Popular vote loser Donald Trump confirms once again that nothing existed in politics or policy before he noticed it. In his own head, anyway. Speaking Monday morning before meeting with a group of healthcare industry executives, he opined “It’s an unbelievably complex subject, nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” This could be because he’s got a White House full of competing ideas that can’t properly brief him because they don’t know what in the hell they’re doing.
via Daily Kos
On the one hand, this could merely be a symptom of his narcissism. Since he didn’t know healthcare was complicated, it stands to reason that no one else could possibly have known, because in his world, there is no one else other than Donald Trump. But the argument for stupidity is just as strong, because only someone who is really stupid could not know that health care is a complicated subject. At least from where I sit, I think the argument for conscious liar, at least on this point, is the weakest, but you can’t dismiss it out of hand, except to say if he’s consciously lying on this one, he’s also proving his stupidity because it’s a truly stupid thing to say, with no political upside.
So, where does this leave us? Well, we can argue about which alternative predominates, but we can all agree that this is a deeply disturbed and disturbing individual. Resist, resist, resist.
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