That Trump is no longer mentally competent isn’t really a question. For to understand how we got to where we are as a country you have to start by accepting that he is mad, and that he believes that he has the power to bend reality to his match his own imagined and fantastical world.
... In many ways the central project of Trumpism is this daily construction and defense of this imagined world so dear to him; of maintaining the fiction of Oz; of the pretending that indeed the orange Emperor has no clothes. The “play’s the thing” Shakespeare once wrote. And so it is with the Trump regime. Every day.
The problem with all of this for Dear Leader, of course, is there is an objective world out there that he cannot bend to his malevolent will. People and nations have agency. Facts are stubborn things. ...
Trumpism has failed as a project because at its core it is mad, dismissive of truth and fact and reason, an imagined world at war with the real one. And the real one keeps winning, and Trump - and all of us - keep losing.
And now Trump has started a war he cannot escape that is alienating every possible friend and partner on the globe. And he wants $200 billion of taxpayer money for his murderous folly. Rosenberg outlines what Congress should demand before considering authorizing a penny:
Trump has becoming increasingly unstable, as has his regime. His utterances each day about the war are outrageously incoherent. ... we must make very clear what it will take to get our vote for this funding. Here’s my working list:
End This New Gulf War, And Trump’s Global Imperial Ambitions
Make Clear We Support Ukraine and Europe, Not Russia
Roll Back The New, Illegal Tariffs
Rescind The Trump Tax Cuts, Claw Back The Extra ICE Funding
Make The US A Clean Energy Superpower, Fight For True Energy Independence, And Lower Energy Prices For The American People
Keep Fighting To Rein In ICE, End Mass Deportation
End the War on Science, Health and Public Health
Demand the Resignations of Hegseth, Bondi, Kennedy
Yes, I know, Simon, this is too much. We can’t ask for all that. My point is that something like this should be our agenda now; we have to stop playing defense, being tactical, and start going on offense, being far more strategic. Trump and his regime have failed, and it has begun to crack up. ...
That's a good list of demands; we need to begin to have one. I think Rosenberg is right; the time has come to leave tactical asks behind and demand it all. Dems will be bashed for "not supporting the troops .." if they balk on the $200 billion down posit for war, but we've been down that road before. No money for this illegal war!
Let's all see each other on Saturday, March 28 at NO KINGS. And beyond.
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