What's Really Chapping [Redacted]'s Ass Right Now... [View all]
...is how clearly the pandemic and the protests in the street demonstrate his own complete and utter irrelevance.
Not one thing he has been able to do has changed either situation in any real magnitude.
Meaningful decisions have all devolved from the White House to hundreds of state and local Departments of Health, Governors' mansions, law enforcement entities, community protest groups, media centers, etc.
He had chances-- dozens of them, even hundreds of them-- to affect outcomes dramatically, to make a real, positive difference, in both situations. But they would have required him to, in his own view, "look weak." They would have required him to delegate and cede power to competent others. They would have required him to become a leader, leading by consent and with participation of the governed, rather than a dictator giving orders.
So he couldn't do it. He couldn't do any of it.
The most he could do, without directly scuppering his own mental image of himself as The War Pressydink or whatever it is, was to mess up other peoples' efforts.
And now there are too many people making too many various efforts in too many other places for him to control at all.
All the effectiveness and impact he, as the designated central authority, COULD have contributed to the dire situations, is so much tear gas dispersing on the wind.
He's officially irrelevant. The sideshow clown he's always been, exposed.
His foam-flecked horror-tweets barely rate a mention anymore, and that only pro-forma from the sources detailed to maintain a watching brief.
Watch for him to keep trying increasingly dangerous and deranged gambits to make himself relevant again.
warily,
Bright
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