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One can confidently add free enterprise to the long list of things that in Trump’s view only suckers could believe in.

The apartheid factor creates a historical context for such a statement. It doesn’t come from nowhere

As Hitler’s original trauma that explains everything was Germany’s defeat in 1918, Musk’s original trauma is the downfall of apartheid in 1994.

Probably that’s part of it, but only part. Creating the psychological dependency has been the bigger game.

You’re probably right.

Agreed!

Trump seems fated to take the most disastrous decision possible. He’s lured first by his belief in his genius, which makes him ignore obvious risks, and second by his existential terror of appearing to be a loser.

That dreaded quality of empathy that is allegedly going to destroy our civilization.

He said last year he wanted the same kind of subservience that President Xi gets from his officials.

But he’s counting on the American people still being susceptible to anticommunist scare stories (as they’re susceptible to scare stories about immigration, trans issues etc). And he may turn out to be right.

It was already obvious in the first term that he finds violence and cruelty a turn on. Since then he’s only got worse.

“The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.”

His obvious next move is to redirect his aggression elsewhere (Cuba and Canada) and hope that the American voter’s attention span is as short as his own.

Living in their fantasies of American omnipotence they never even bothered to think about Iranian options and capacities. They’d dismiss any such thinking as defeatist.

Public education too.

When they talk about “historical accuracy” they mean one thing only: the superiority of the Aryan race.

Distrust any statement that includes the words “the president is fully aware.”

Right. Tom Nichols’s book Our Own Worst Enemy is a good account of the collective mentality.

From an artistic point of view Nolan has reintegrated the elements of the story into a new interpretation. A very substantial achievement imho.

Clinton’s foreign policy team weren’t stupid. Or were they? How does one explain their allowing this to happen?