"Trump is one of those classic big-thinkers who is all vision and no completion, all ambition, no follow-through..."
Admittedly, he has (wrong) things to say about the nature and etiology of Trump's failings and incapacities, but the basic truth is that to view Trump as some kind of 'visionary big-thinker' marks you out as an absolute fruit-cake. Trump's alleged inspirations are like Hitler's: simply the gas that comes out of a personality so profoundly damaged that it uses words in the same arbitrary and impulsive way that a toddler uses fingerpaints.
Why do so many of the alternative commentariat pay for their insights with nutcase allegiances to Trump, Thatcher, climate-denial, Farage, etc?
It reminds me somewhat of Mercouris' weird paons of homage to Thatcher: despite decent Geopolitical analysis there's something weird going on in these people heads when they look to lionise these shabby individuals as great "thinkers".
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
Well said, Mark. I don't as a rule read this bloke's posts but I happened to see this one. Thought at first he was being ironic and scathing but there was no payoff so I concluded he was being serious.
on April 9, 2026, 10:30 am