Trump’s latest attempt to distance himself from himself, since he has no grounded sense of who he is beyond a pliable grumpy clown, has taken the form this week of a stern repudiation of any association with the so-called Project 2025 of the Heritage Foundation.
In a Trump campaign press statement yesterday, his spokesmen sounded really pissed, insisting “Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way. Its demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign— it will not end well for you.”
So, it was all just a devious attempt to “misrepresent influence” with Trump in a manner that could meet with a very concrete shoes-style ending. “It will not end well for you!” Indeed.
In fact, of course, the document that has been attracting so much attention in the recent period is a product of the Trump machine itself, with all of its staffing coming from key Trump loyalists. But it told the truth about what the Trump campaign and its backers intend for us, like the national abortion ban and so much more out of a fascist playbook, and truth, as we all know, is something that Trump has a particular aversion to.
Trump is the frightened and angry victim of his own profoundly dysfunctional personality, especially the part of it that stands over and apart from him as a malleable persona with an insatiable need to be liked by everybody. As the Project 2025 project devised by some of his closest colleagues has generated such unfavorable reactions from just about everybody, even among those on his own team, he is now furious about it and lashing out.
Trump’s condition has worsened significantly beyond where it was when he was actually president, absorbing blows after blows of negativity, and he is now being internally tortured by a rapid onset of dementia. Dementia takes many forms and in his case, it is inhabited by some ghastly characters like Hannibal (the Cannibal) Lector and the nasty little poisonous snake of the story he so often rambles on about at rallies.
These are the spirits he has called around him repeatedly and over time, and they are the ones who inhabit his consciousness more and more as the veil is drawn over his mind that shuts out reality and the simple pleasures of life.
Of course, the Project 2025 prescription for a male-chauvinist, fascist horror will become the grist of the movement that Trump has helped to create, no matter what he, in particular, says or thinks he wants.
To me, its most chilling mandate, the one which wraps up into one overriding concept bringing the issue of tyranny home, right into humanity’s individual kitchens, is the one that states, simply, “The only valid family is a father married to a stay-at-home mother and their children.”
From this particularly ugly little mandate springs all the evils of the world. It would not be so if the word “only” was not in there, but that is the indispensable word that defines its entire meaning and intent.
It is the same little four-letter word, “only,” that has caused so much pain and slaughter in the world amongst homo sapiens over recent eons.
The biggest falsehood among so-called “evangelicals” is that same nasty little word. It is the one line of Biblical scripture that they repeat the most, the one which says that it is “only through Christ that one can be saved.”
I grasp the meaning of the phrase except for the way the “only” word turns the prospect of a liberated, or redeemed, soul into oppression and a tortuous vice.
But it’s the deployment of that one ugly word that traps people, that suffocates them, grips their hearts with fear and turns them into maniacs capable of the worst atrocities against their brothers and sisters.
Indeed, in the massive psy-ops assault on western culture known generically as “postmodernism,” its objective was the destruction of ecumenicism and elevation of “onlyness.”
