General Discussion

His thinking and behavior work. One must either admit that his judgement is good - the definition of sanity - or that our basis for judging winners and losers is irrational. Trump is difficult to stop because people are unwilling to consider the possibility that the latter could be true. People are wishing for the impossible, that Trump is insane, but that the society is otherwise sound and rational. That wish is itself irrational.

Trump is not an aberration. Close to half of the population supports him, and people in the various power centers - Wall Street, academia, business leaders, the media - are mostly all onboard, or at least acquiescent.

MAGA is quintessentially American - the bigotry, the violence, the ignorance, the environmental destruction, the exploitation, the wealth equality, the deeply held anti-intellectual and anti-social attitudes and beliefs.

Trump is the logical and inevitable expression, the product, the symbol, the personification of an insane society.