Now a lot of Americans seem resigned yet relieved to step back in time with a sentimental old-school Irish pol who was born the year Bing Crosby topped the charts with White Christmas. Back to a time when the president did not rubbish people like an insult comic. Back to a time when the president did not peddle his own lethal reality. Back to a time when the president cared about the whole country, not just the part that voted for him.
Back to a time when the president behaved like an adult, not a delinquent. Trump does have a gift for symmetry, though, you must admit. And now he could be ending his presidency with another epic tantrum about crowd size. He stormed out of the interview a short while later. He may be finishing right where he started, focused on himself. He was a working-class kid who stuttered.
He was an adult who suffered terrible losses. He was not coddled by a rich father who was always there to bail him out of a jam.
Biden is an empath, Trump a sociopath. Somehow Trump grew aggrieved buoyed by family money in a Fifth Avenue penthouse, while Biden remained optimistic despite the fates throwing down one lightning bolt after another.
He needs the adoration of the mob more than he needs the acceptance of normal people. Trump would rather be bitchy than boring. He let some balls get past him. He did not word his comment about transitioning from oil dependence artfully. Isolated in his shrink-wrap, Fox-speak bubble in the debate, he ignored the fact that he has already turned the US into a sort of dystopia by bungling and dissimulating on the virus. But he has.
Trump is clearly stunted. His father encouraged his opportunism and cynicism: Do what you need to do to grab whatever you want. And never do anything that is not in your own self-interest.
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