So I’ve heard that those people who are obsessed with Trump are obsessed because they see trump in their own shadow and that is why they hate him so much.
That’s interesting, might be some truth to that I suppose. People do often project their own faults onto others as well, kind of a similar dynamic.
Myself, I was like a lot of other folks, even many prominent conservatives, who just instantly recognized what Trump represented the day he descended the escalator in Trump Tower, and announced for 2016. I think anyone with a good understanding of demagogues, and the dangers demagogues pose in a democracy, probably reacted in a similar fashion. Those alarm bells sounding, esp. for folks with a good understanding of history, had nothing to do with personal shadows.
After all:
Political philosophers from the Greeks to the framers of the U.S. Constitution to Abraham Lincoln all warned of the mortal danger that demagogues pose to democracies. Vital to their understanding of that danger was their familiarity with Greek and Roman history and political philosophy. These...
www.vanderbilt.edu
I mean, really, these concerns are not born of overly active imaginations divorced from reality….
The return of the former President is no joke and should deeply worry us all.
www.bylinesupplement.com
Conservative minds understood this well, not just liberals or “leftists”:
<b>Washington •</b> There are political moments, and this might be one, in which worse is better. Moments, that is, when a society’s per capita quantity of conspicuous stupidity is so high and public manners are so low that a critical mass of people are jolted into saying “enough, already.”...
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And the summary below is just one hour from the other night. This is detached from reality. I don’t have to fail to recognize my own shadow to see that a man who is completely detached from the real world, and is so much wrapped up in himself, that this is the result, needs to be kept far from the Oval Office.
This is not a would-be president that is rooted in the real world. He needs to leave the stage:
“For most of the hour-long session, the former president barely mentioned President Biden. Instead, he spent his time denying the results of the “rigged” 2020 election; railing against “stupid people” who refuse to acknowledge his victory; promising to pardon “many” of those convicted of committing crimes on
Jan. 6, 2021; calling the Capitol Police officer who shot a rioter while protecting members of Congress a “thug”; claiming that Mike Pence was not in any danger from the rioters and had the power as vice president to overturn the election results; defending his “perfect” phone call asking Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to “
find 11,780 votes”; defending his Truth Social post calling for “termination” of the Constitution; justifying his own mishandling of classified information while claiming that Biden stored classified documents in D.C.’s Chinatown, “where they don’t even speak English”; rehashing and justifying his “Access Hollywood” comments; and calling CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins a “nasty person.”(From a Wash. Post opinion piece:
https://wapo.st/42M6JBt)
I assume you do not recognize any of this. You have no choice but to see the fault in critics of Trump, perhaps because you have no knowledge of demagogues, and likely due in part to a lack of knowledge or appreciation of history. You make a mistake trying to find poorly supported reasoning behind concerns about Trump. You simply are unable to understand those concerns, so you find any way you can to dismiss them. Educating yourself in history would be far more appropriate.
Don’t mean to spam you, or the forum, with a bunch of links, but I’m providing you with the opportunity to educate yourself beyond just extreme anger at anyone “obsessed” with Trump. Dismissing these anti-Trump concerns will not work. People like me, and there are millions of people like me, have genuine concerns rooted in reality.
