Right wing conspiracy

My two cents on this are pretty simple and practical. The republicans owned congress for 6/8 years. If there was something on Obama they would have pursued it. Your issues with IRS, Benghazi (a total farce just like going after trump on niger would be), etc. amount to nothing. McConnell, Ryan and Boehner would have nailed the guy. They did it to the last democratic president over nothing. Pretty simple math to me. As for the corruption of the media. This is a story that goes back to right wing talk radio in the 90s. Started with spreading right wing mythology about the media. Up until then there was a consensus that the newsprint and national news was giving a fairly reasonable account of what was going on. Then comes talk radio- Rush et al perpetrated by ailes and Murdoch. Buying media outlets, clear channel, and then fanned by right wing think tanks(brookings, American enterprise institute etc...). They present with just enough reality to sound real but aren’t. And they push and push a clear “conservative “ agenda and anti media campaign for years and years. It grows and grows fomenting doubt in weak minded ppl. And perpetuating a fraud that has spread to the point that every bit of information is now in doubt. So scientific information (what science calls fact- ie, what we know to be true at the moment based on our best scientific work) is doubted or it’s findings are questionable bc of some fantasy about who funded it. And why is that? Bc corporations (mostly run by right wingers) figures out they can fund fake studies, and create confusion about science. Then the left decides it has to play the game and they create left wing “media” (really equivalent to right wing propaganda) to combat this already too established right wing. But that just serves the right’s agenda by reinforcing the narrative. This is how it all went down, filtered down to the point that so many people now believe all news is fake, or deliberately biased, that we get someone like Trump who is a master manipulator of this entire process. Now it makes us ripe for totalitarian govt and for now the right is winning that contest

From. http://www.salon.com/2017/07/13/donald-trump-jr-s-emails-wont-change-anything-his-dads-supporters-will-stay-loyal-no-matter-how-much-collusion-is-exposed/ Thus a painful truth for those patriotic Americans who oppose Donald Trump: He will not be impeached. His son’s emails basically admitting collusion with Russia will ultimately mean little if anything. Why is this? Because there is likely no amount of empirical evidence or facts that will turn the Republican Party and its supporters against President Trump. He is a tool for accomplishing the Republican Party’s goals of giving more money to the very richest Americans, punishing poor and working-class people, destroying the commons and the social safety net, creating a Christian theocracy, undermining the middle class, giving corporations full control over the country, destroying the environment, taking away women’s control over their own bodies, abusing Muslims, and denying the civil rights, freedom and equal citizenship of African-Americans and other people of color. In all, the Republican Party, its voters and the right-wing media have chosen political power over loyalty to country. In that context, Russia’s meddling in our presidential election to put Donald Trump in the White House is but a means to an end. I have written hundreds of essays about the rise of Donald Trump and what it tells us about American politics and culture. I am also in the process of writing a book on the same topic. In my writings on Donald Trump and this political moment, I have tried to warn and prepare readers for the reckoning that is coming to the United States. Yes, in some ways the reckoning has already arrived in the form of Trump’s fascism and the authoritarianism, bigotry and racism that fuel it. But there are worse things on the horizon in Donald Trump’s America. When the full scale and depth of Russia’s interference with last year’s presidential election are laid bare for the world to see, Donald Trump’s rule will be made wholly illegitimate. The Republican Party will then be implicated as a co-conspirator in one of the greatest political crimes in American history. Nevertheless, Republicans and other members of the American right wing will continue to support Donald Trump.

Trump - Narcissistic Personality Disorder

We may talk a lot about people and their pathologies, and some of that talk is a bit tongue in cheek and we play loosely with the definitions of certain disorders. But, when you have someone who repeatedly acts out in infantile ways, without regard to obvious self and other damaging consequences, behaves in a manner that creates the circumstances that they later complain about, then claim victimization by externalizing blame, and then insist on putting into place all kinds of self-protective measures (that also serve to undermine their position) -- you just can no longer deny the obvious. This is the best lay persons description of behavior that strongly suggests narcissistic personality disorder: "The escalation of the probe is packed with irony. Trump’s insistence that he was not personally under investigation led him to fire the man leading the probe, which ensured a special prosecutor, which ensured Trump came personally under investigation. Trump has given Mueller another building block for the investigation by raging about the very circumstances he brought about." (http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-declares-war-on-rosenstein-he-has-no-qualms-about-throwing-him-under-a-bus) Also in the same article: "In other words, Trump’s latest account of why he fired Comey (again) portrays Rosenstein as the driving force behind events, as if Trump never admitted on national television that he fired Comey over the Russia investigation. Mueller will inevitably investigate the exact circumstances leading to the Comey firing, which he is likely to interview both Trump and Rosenstein—now in conflict with each other—about. Even Trump’s senior aides blame the president for bringing the obstruction inquiry upon himself and the White House. “The president did this to himself,” one senior administration official told The Daily Beast on Wednesday."

Great analysis of Trump

The best analysis I've read Likewise, Trump seems to see presidential leadership as a game of dealmaking, where the best and most effective presidents are those that make the most “deals.” But this just isn’t true. Dealmaking and negotiation are part of the job of the presidency, but they have to happen with a purpose in mind; with an idea of the good within reach. Simply striking a deal for the sake of a deal is a recipe for terrible missteps or outright capture by antagonistic interests. Trump’s amoral and opportunistic approach may pay dividends in the world of real estate, but it can bring disaster in government, obscuring real challenges, alienating potential allies, and bringing bad outcomes. Above all, Trump’s musings are a reminder that his ignorance isn’t an act or a performance. The president of the United States isn’t just inexperienced; he is profoundly unknowledgeable about his country and its history, as uninterested in the challenges of the past as he is the dilemmas of the present. He knows nothing of the world around him, other than the selected information he receives from his advisers, which then gets restated to us, the public, in often-garbled form. This ignorance isn’t just embarrassing; it’s also a threat to our collective and institutional well-being. A president who knows nothing of the past will likely blunder in office; a president who knows nothing of history will likely repeat the worst mistakes of his predecessors; a president who all but relishes his ignorance will, at some point, lead us all into disaster. From: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/05/trump_s_belief_that_a_deal_could_have_prevented_the_civil_war_is_as_dangerous.html