Let's think about that. Trump effectively says "fuck all, I'm not getting wet and going to some stupid cemetery. Tell these sheep that the helicopter won't work". "Drive? Hell no. I'm not going out. Make up another story". If he didn't use these words precisely it had the identical effect anyway and they were lies like we're used to.
But The Wicked Witch of the West does manage to smile just once, here.
The enemy of the Western World comes along and look at the faces. Macron's wife half bites her face off at him. Everyone looking at Putin sees the enemy approach, Meliana looks like she's thinking about more tranquilizers and booze and Trump beams at the enemy of all the people standing there and of the US.
Trump then goes on to warn Macron about Germany invading France like the despicable he is.
This is the face of Trump and you complain about the Left opposing him? Everyone who has a patriotic bone in their body should, but nationalism usurps proper patriotism and twists it.
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Obsession. As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit.” His special mission is to prove that his chosen nation is in all respects better than its rivals. Therefore, even to the outer limits of plausibility, any question may be traced back to this central issue. No detail is indifferent, no fact is neutral.
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“Instability.” The content of the nationalist’s belief, and even the object of his devotion, is liable to change as circumstances do. “What remains constant in the nationalist is his own state of mind”—the relentless, reductive, uncompromising fervor. The point is to keep oneself always in a frenzied state concerning vicarious contests of honor, whether indulging in spasms of rage over perceived insults or in sadistic ecstasies celebrating some new triumph. It is the single-minded intensity that matters, not the ostensible cause.
3. “
Indifference to Reality.” Nationalists achieve by instinct the kind of doublethink that the denizens of Airstrip One cultivated by conscious effort: “Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also—since he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself—unshakably certain of being in the right.” His fundamental belief, he feels sure,
must be true; therefore, the facts will have to be made to fit it.
That certainly defines Trump and his supporters and explains many of your posts.
