folly to assume
the demands of his ego
will be satisfied
Trump is a vain and petty man, and it is easy to impute psychological motives to his actions. But it is folly to assume the demands of his ego will be satisfied by symbolic victories. Revulsion and desire are two sides of the same coin, and it is clear that Trump covets the kind of unaccountable power Maduro enjoyed — to enrich his family and cronies, to intimidate political opponents, to muzzle the press, to flood the streets of his country with armed men who do his bidding. Trump has managed to do a measure of all of these things. No doubt he intends to do more.
From the New York Times Opinion piece, This Is Trump’s Small Trick to Destroy American Democracy by Lydia Polgreen.
I am reminded of the bully in the movie, A Christmas Story.
The movie, A Christmas Story was based on the book, But In god we trust all others pay cash by Jean Shepherd.
It is interesting to point out that the evil bully, Scut Farkus is not the bully in the book.
Grover Dill is.
Of Grover Dill, Jean Shephard writes, “Dill was a Running Nose type of Bully. His nose was always running, even when it wasn’t. He was a yelling, wiry, malevolent, sneevily snively Bully who had quelled all insurgents for miles around. I did not know one kid ‘who was not afraid of Dill, mainly because Dill was truly aggressive. This kind of aggression later in life is often called “Talent” or “Drive,” but to the great formless herd of kids it just meant a lot of running, getting belted, and continually feeling ashamed.“
Farkus shows up in Jean Shephard’s second book of growing up in Indiana memories titled, “Wanda Hickies Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.”
Again and again, something a supporter of the current feller in the Oval Office said.
“He fights my battles for me.”
Dill or Farkus, the movie, Ralphie says, “In our world, you were either a bully, a toady or one of the nameless rabble of victims.”
I was part of the nameless rabble of victims.
Difficult for me to imagine being a Grover Dill or Scut Farkus fan.
I mean, really?
I support the Scut Farkus and the Grover Dill people of this world.
They fight my battles for me.
Really?
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