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In reply to the discussion: Important! Please Help! [View all]panfluteman
(2,065 posts)She really wasn't kidding around. All of America's guardian angels must have been working overtime to get Trump sidelined to the extent that he now is, but the work of marginalizing and discrediting him is far from over. Just think - Trump has spent his whole life carefully studying the intricate mechanisms of demagoguery, but even more than that, subconsciously, his whole personality was absolutely driven by a deep victimization complex, a desire to get even with the world, a confrontive and divisive personality that cannot acknowledge the possibility of true cooperation and sharing or the needs of anyone other than himself, and an amazing ability to lie, lie, lie, and deny, deny, deny, and to blame, blame, blame, projecting all responsibility for everything out onto others, and never accepting any responsibility himself. It seemed for all the world that Trump is genuinely incapable of telling the truth - ever.
What's even more scary has been how attractive and seductive the whole siren call of fascism has been for our nation, and how Donald Trump successfully maneuvered himself into a position of power and authority in which few, if any, were willing to stand up to him. Republican Senators like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz went overnight from being vocal critics of Trump to being his sycophantic lap dogs - like, what the HECK is going on here? They seemed to be kind of like the pod people in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".
And within all of this context, the bravery and heroism of Dr. Bandy Lee is truly remarkable. After all, she could have just hidden behind the Goldwater Rule, as did so many others in her profession.