In the process, Trump has in too many cases turned his party into an instrument of illiberalism and nihilism.
The Sidney Powell/Michael Flynn ideas are finding an enthusiastic audience at the top.”Įven amid the chaos, it’s worth taking a step back to think about where we are: An American president, unwilling to concede his defeat by 7 million popular votes and 74 Electoral College votes, is still trying to steal the election. “I can’t recall hearing more intense concern from senior officials who are actually Trump people. “I’ve been covering Donald Trump for a while,” Jonathan Swan of Axios tweeted. And, as a result, President Trump has become even more destabilizing and dangerous. That his wits would begin to turn, in the words of King Lear.
That he would go against past supplicants, like Attorney General Bill Barr and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, and become more aggressive toward his perceived enemies. That he would become more enraged and embittered, more desperate and despondent, more consumed by his grievances. It was predictable that the president would assert even more bizarre conspiracy theories.
Given Trump’s psychological profile, it was inevitable that when he felt the walls of reality close in on him-in 2020, it was the pandemic, the cratering economy, and his election defeat-he would detach himself even further from reality. Nothing that Trump has done over the past four years has caused me to rethink my assessment, and a great deal has happened to confirm it. It was the main reason, though hardly the only reason, I refused to vote for him in 2016 or in 2020, despite having worked in the three previous Republican administrations. Some of us said, even before he became president, that Donald Trump’s Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering him, was his psychology-his disordered personality, his emotional and mental instability, and his sociopathic tendencies. It appears that Flynn wants to turn them into literal battleground states. Earlier in the week, Flynn, a retired lieutenant general, floated the idea (which he had promoted before) that the president impose martial law and deploy the military to “rerun” the election in several closely contested states that voted against Trump. The latest manifestation of this is a report in The New York Times that the president is weighing appointing the conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell, who for a time worked on his legal team, to be special counsel to investigate imaginary claims of voter fraud.Īs if that were not enough, we also learned that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was pardoned by the president after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI, attended the Friday meeting. Donald Trump’s descent into madness continues.
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