I think I understand why--we have an innate need to believe in at least some kind of order and purpose--but an alarming number of people still talk about Trump as some kind of master strategist, constantly distracting, diverting, dropping smoke bombs 1/
He's not. Trump is not capable of that kind of thinking. He does not connect moments to other moments the way you and I do. He does not draw a simple line between action and consequence. There is no purpose there, at least how we think of purpose 2/
What is there is infinitely more terrifying. Feral need and anger driven by a self-loathing that must make every moment of his existence wretched beyond imagining. He hates us and the rest of the world, but no one hates Donald Trump more than Donald Trump hates Donald Trump 3/
This is why he can't tolerate being seen to lose, not to intimidate, dominate. No one talks about strength quite like a weak person, and Trump talks about and tries to project strength *all of the time*. But there's nothing beneath any of it 4/
He is almost--and quite literally, too--a man held together by tape and paint. And now he's cornered. His enemies are everywhere. He's surrounded. Even Fox has betrayed him. He's not even been president for four years, and now it's all falling apart around his ears 5/
Mass death, mass protests, an economy in utter shambles. For a few years, the numbers were Good. Now the numbers are very, very Bad. And Trump's the one people are pointing at. He's not trying to distract you with some clever dodge or maneuver 6/
He's not connecting one moment to another like you and I do. He's lashing out, wildly, aimlessly, because lashing out is the only thing he knows. In some ways, it's the only thing he's ever *really* known. Because that's how he "wins" 7/
That's how he keeps himself from cracking in half and all the loathsome mess and poisoned viscera inside him from spilling out all over the floor in front of you and me and the ghosts of the monsters who raised him. That's how he keeps himself from being unmade 8/
November is just a few months away. What if he loses? If you weren't terrified before, sisters and brothers, you should be END/
