Michael Everett wrote:n7axw wrote:But if you want to understand where Trump is coming from and why, it is a must read.
... key words - want to understand.
Most of Trump's enemies don't want to understand anything about him. He is not a (broken) complex individual, he is a cardboard cutout for them to vent their rage on. A mirror in which they can only see what they hate the most.
The idea that he was raised to be as he is by someone who failed to live up to the generally accepted standards of Parent means nothing to his enemies. They care not for his history, only that he stands for something that they hate, that he has the power that they crave but cannot achieve.
After all, why waste effort on understanding when you can simply howl?
While understanding the why and how of Trump becoming the dictator admiring sexually molesting thieving lying piece of crap that he is could be a worthy intellectual exercise, it is hardly a requirement for knowing he is to be despised and belongs nowhere near the levers of power.
We are not talking about some character in a fiction book that we're sitting around in book club discussing in hypothetical terms as part of a character study. We are talking about someone real actual people put in charge of a real actual country and he is doing real actual damage to it on a daily basis... pausing to ask whether that was because he had a bad childhood is not exactly priority one.