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America's Whiniest 'Victim': Charles Blow NAILS Trump in today's NYT (MUST-READ) [View all]
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/opinion/donald-trump-unfair.html?smid=tw-shareDonald Trump is the reigning king of American victimhood.
He is unceasingly pained, injured, aggrieved.
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People refuse to reach past his flaws — which are legion! — and pat him on the back. People refuse to praise his minimal effort and minimal efficacy. They refuse to ignore that the legend he created about himself is a lie. People’s insistence on truth and honest appraisal is so annoying. It’s all so terribly unfair.
It is in this near perfect state of perpetual aggrievement that Trump gives voice to a faction of America that also feels aggrieved. Trump won because he whines. He whines in a way that makes the weak feel less vulnerable and more vicious. He makes feeling sorry for himself feel like fighting back.
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He is unceasingly pained, injured, aggrieved.
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People refuse to reach past his flaws — which are legion! — and pat him on the back. People refuse to praise his minimal effort and minimal efficacy. They refuse to ignore that the legend he created about himself is a lie. People’s insistence on truth and honest appraisal is so annoying. It’s all so terribly unfair.
It is in this near perfect state of perpetual aggrievement that Trump gives voice to a faction of America that also feels aggrieved. Trump won because he whines. He whines in a way that makes the weak feel less vulnerable and more vicious. He makes feeling sorry for himself feel like fighting back.
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Editing to add that this column explains why Trump started the morning with a tweet repeating his usual attacks on the NYT:
Link to tweet
The failing @nytimes, which has made every wrong prediction about me including my big election win (apologized), is totally inept!
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