I hoped the 2020 election would spell an end to the exhausting psychodrama of Trumpism, writes Steve Almond. Instead, his pathologies have gone viral.
President Donald Trump arrives at the"Stop The Steal" Rally on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. on the U.S. Capitol Building in real-time. I assumed it was a Trump-inspired tantrum, staged by QAnon loonies and cosplay white supremacists to ward off a humiliating truth: their dear leader had lost.
Like most of you, I hoped the 2020 election would spell an end to the exhausting psychodrama of Trumpism. Instead, his pathologies have gone viral. In the weeks after the insurrection, it seemed inevitable that the Republican Party would repudiate Trump, if not out of conscience than necessity. He had lost, as an incumbent, and his lowly approval ratings had cost the GOP control of the Senate — even before he orchestrated a coup. His base, aggrieved white people, was a shrinking demographic.
The GOP no longer functions in any traditional political sense. There is no platform, no policy agenda. Its sole purpose is to seize power by subverting our free and fair elections, which is to say: democracy. “The paranoid is a militant leader. He does not see social conflict as something to be mediated and compromised, in the manner of the working politician. Since what is at stake is always a conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, what is necessary is not compromise but the will to fight things out to a finish.”
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