Boiling frogs, the media, and cumulative radicalization
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Scott already posted one of Trump’s Truth Social rants from this evening, but this one from all of fourteen minutes later was even more unhinged:
We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain. Cancel it, just like I canceled my involvement with the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy Center, because a Highly Conflicted, Crooked Federal Judge, said that I should not be allowed to spend my time and money in order to MAKE THE CENTER GREAT AGAIN, actually, far greater than it ever was before! It would have also been nice to see a Republican/Democrat union bring it back to life. The Kennedy Center is broken, unsafe, and $busted, and has been for many years! Judge Cooper also stated that the highly prestigious Board of the Center was not authorized to add on the name “TRUMP” despite the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars of my time and money will be necessary for its successful reincarnation. So now, the Kennedy Center will collapse, both structurally and financially. Judge Cooper and his wife, Amy Jeffress (obfuscation anyone?), should be ashamed of themselves. Judge Cooper, like numerous other Crooked Judges on my cases, should be IMPEACHED. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Commenter Brandunaware notes:
The fact that Trump constantly posts insane screeds to his social media and it’s a non-story in the press is just infuriating and this country’s complete inability to deal with its embarrassing toddler president is humiliating.
The Kim family in North Korea has 1000 times the composure and professionalism.
I would like to believe that, if Trump had posted something this completely unhinged a few weeks into his first presidency, when when the elite media were still breathlessly waiting for and then announcing on various occasions that this was the day on which he had become president, aka stopped being the Donald Trump everyone had been observing for several decades, it would have produced some sort of shocked reaction from those very same people, instead of what it produces now, which as Brandunaware points out, is exactly nothing.
What we are seeing here is the ongoing cumulative radicalization of the Trump regime, which in turn is being met by something close to total denial by almost all of the American establishment, because the alternative would be to acknowledge what is actually happening in this country now. And that is literally unbearable for the establishment, because doing so would itself radically undermine that establishment’s legitimacy, most particularly in its own eyes.
Which means that the pretending will continue for as long as possible, which could be quite a long time.