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Trump’s face is a relief map of insanity and ruin.  And that face will be an icon of the country at large should he again become president.

Mary Trump is, of course, a trained psychologist, and she’s able to recognize the dynamic propelling Trump’s cult to galvanize around his moral inferiority even to many of the cult members themselves: “They don’t want a leader to look up to; they want somebody on their level, equal to or (preferably) beneath them. ”

She analyzes on her Substack site the corporate media’s catastrophic fails motivated by their need to induce suspense by artificially weighing the scale, minimizing Trump’s beyond-the-pale incitement of treasonous violence.

Their refusal to call out Trump’s death threats against Gen. Milley, emerge from their “need to keep the race between Pres. Biden and Donald close. In order to do that, they obsess about Biden’s age without acknowledging his fitness and accomplishments while normalizing Donald as the Republican front-runner while failing to mention that he’s only three years younger in addition to being a cognitively impaired, fraudulent traitor to the United States.”

That is the governing philosophy, the civil credo powering the Republicans.

Historian Lawrence Glickman tweets:

“A central fact is that, in the midst of a UAW strike, Trump spoke last night at a nonunion factory. Yet the @nytimes mentions this only at the end of the 6th paragraph and the @washingtonpost brings it up in only the 19th paragraph. These are failures of framing.”

I know how fraught journalism is at the moment. I want great newspapers like these to survive. But they have got to rethink the way they keep trying to normalize Trump, in the name of—what?

Perhaps that would indeed be one key to their survival.

When will the corporate “mainstream” media understand that they are in his rifle sights? They can platform him up the wazoo,  grant him every condition he asks for, let him ride roughshod over their reporters–and they will still be on the firing line should their genuflections ultimately result in his reelection.

He’s put together a mash-up of Trump’s verbal gaffes, synaptic short circuits, and imbecilic pronouncements, about bleach and such like, which Trump and his team are so desperate to minimize by shifting attention to Biden’s–at worse–mild cognitive decline.

When is the Biden communication team going to take the gloves off? Do they realize what’s at stake?

In those selfie videos he keeps disgorging, Trump huffs and puffs like a dilapidated bellows, as he wrestles with the words he is trying to articulate.

Administration in, administration out, City Hall exists to make the developers happy, and is willing to practice any deceit in order to do so.

City Hall told us it was going to build “affordable” housing at 388 Hudson Street. Turned out these units will revert back to market rate after 30 years. And turns out the building specs it provided were a complete sham –the City just sprung its real intention to  solicit proposals from developers to construct the tallest building in Greenwich Village!

Another monstrous betrayal by City Hall, and the developer-dominated  NY City “Planning” Commission.

Visit Village Preservation’s web site and you’ll find out how to raise your voice in protest.

Unbelievably, in a time of ever-shrinking newsroom personnel, USA Today has decided that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift with each be covered by a dedicated reporter.

A[pparently, USA Today believes its obligation to deliver an even more ignorant, celebrity-obsessed citizenship trumps, as it were, what might once have been considered its sacred mandate to inform the public and serve the public interest.

His spasms of anti-Semitism are occurring at shorter and shorter intervals.

Now he accuses Jews of betraying America. And the corporate media stays largely silent about his remarks.  The GOP stays completely silent.

It’s chilling to watch for the first time Polanski’s “The Pianist” and realize that some version of this horror is what Trump and his confederacy of depraved degenerates have in mind for America.

If America survives Trump and the current GOP, some type of Truth and Reconciliation must follow.