What I do not understand is this--if many, if not most, in the media see what you all have written--that the man is nuts--what of the people in his administration?  In Congress?  Trumps mental state is so unstable that it is difficult for most reasonable people to not see what is happening.  Yet I hear little or nothing in this regard coming from those closest to him.  Why?

The Trumpers believe in the Strong Man leader. They believe in simple solutions to problems that they do not fully understand. They confuse bluster, and bluntness with honesty. They are ill informed. They are so distrustful that they will willingly disbelieve anything if the facts are presented by a source that they perceive as mainstream. They wear their ignorance like a badge of honor. Reality is plastic. There are alternative facts. Lies are really just exaggerations.
And that has led us to this point of extreme danger.

We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Donald Trump is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you that he's the only one who can save you. So, he gathers  a group of frustrated, working class voters who remember with longing an easier time, and he talks to them about treasured cliche's of American's lost greatness. He tells that the elites have stolen that greatness. He waves a picture of poor migrants, screams about Bad deals and he tells them, that the Mexicans or some "other" are to blame for their lot in life.

He can't solve their problems. Isn't interested in that. What he is interested in adulation and power. So he gives them shiny objects. He gives them enemies. Liberals, Mexicans, the Media, Celebrities. And he picks fights so that the crowd can have spectacles, chant "Build the Wall, Lock her up", and other such nonsense.

Panem et circenses. Bread and circuses.

Last edited by Goose (2/18/2017 8:06 am)

I thought this cartoon summed it up pretty well ! 

Thank you all for each excellent response.  It looks like for now at least there are no answers and America will remain in this quandary until Congress comes to it senses and decides to take Constitutional action against this maniac.  When I see the thousands in line for his next campaign speech in Orlando today at 5 I pray Congress moves soon.