Shapes of Things to Come

It is interesting and informative that all of the charges the Democrats level against Trump are true of the Democrats, and untrue of Trump.

They accuse Trump of habitually lying. In fact, the foundation of Trump’s popularity is that he is a straight talker who does what he says he will do. In the meantime, Biden’s entire campaign, by his own account, is based on a blatant lie: that Trump called neo-Nazis “fine people.”

They accuse Trump of racism. Yet what he has garnered record-high support for any Republican among both black and Hispanic voters.

They accuse him of antisemitism. Yet he has moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem, and brokered two Arab-Israeli peace deals that involve no new concessions to the Palestinians. In the meantime, the left has grown increasingly antisemitic. Orthodox Jewish meetings are being harassed in NYC, for example.

They accuse Trump of not caring about the poor, and only governing for the rich. Yet Trump was voted into office by the working class, who understand him as their champion. By contrast, the rich technocrats of Silicon Valley are trying to suppress all Republican messaging. Bloomberg is trying to buy votes in Florida. Biden is pulling in record-high campaign funding. The wealthy elite is clearly desperately opposed to Trump. One must ask why. In the meantime, the Democrats are insistent on keeping the economy shut down. The rich can weather this, and are apparently even becoming richer during the shutdown. The poor need to work, or they cannot eat or pay the rent.

As Nancy Pelosi shows off her well-stocked wall-sized home freezers on video.

They accuse Trump of profiteering off of the presidency. Yet Trump’s net worth has gone down as a result of being president. Biden’s net worth, during his years of public service, mysteriously rose to multimillionaire level. Go figure.

They accuse Trump of colluding with Russia to swing the 2016 election. That charge suspiciously came up, as I recall, on the night Trump won. We now know, through the Durham investigation, that the Clinton campaign was colluding with Russia at the time. In the meantime, after exhaustive investigation, there is no evidence of collusion from Trump or his campaign. I, for one, suspect the Clinton involvement with Russia was far greater than we yet know—why was she failing to secure her emails? Mere incompetence does not seem like a sufficient explanation. Why was she storing her emails in a server in the Ukraine, of all places?

And why a large payment to Joe Biden’s son from the wife of the mayor of Moscow?

They impeached Trump over supposedly trying to influence the government of the Ukraine for his own benefit. For a routine-sounding phone call, for which the transcript was released immediately. We now know, from the newly released Hunter Biden emails, assuming they are legitimate, that the Bidens were involved deeply in influence peddling in the Ukraine, and in influencing Ukraine government policy for their own benefit.

They are rioting in the streets, night after night, and blaming Trump for the rioting in the streets.

All this illustrates an important point about human evil. When one commits to evil, one spontaneously begins to say the opposite of the truth, because it feels safest to stay as far away from the truth as possible. At the same time, it becomes urgent to scapegoat someone else for the very thing you are guilty of. Ideally, you want to scapegoat the one person least guilty of it. That absolves you most completely, after all. If a sinless man were to appear, your instinct would be to crucify him as the worst sort of criminal.

Every value is turned upside down.

The same tendency, within a family, is what produces mental illness in family members—within the family, every value is turned upside down, and a sensitive child will be aware of the loss of equilibrium, whether or not he or she becomes the designated scapegoat. As is almost certain to be the case.

When it happens in the body politic, the entire country can go mad. It happened in Weimar Germany, or in China before and during the Cultural Revolution.

It seems an urgent matter that Trump win re-election in a few weeks. As looks unlikely to happen, based on the polls. If he does not, things are liable to get very unpleasant in the US, and perhaps for the world.