Dispatches from the Trumpocalypse
The complete audio recording of all of Jonathan Zap’s reports on the Trumpocalypse
Trump’s Cognitive Decline
Trump’s counterfactualism may not be spin, but at narcissistically disordered personality in cognitive decline desperately trying to maintain its ego self-image.
Trump’s Third Rail—Forgetting that the American Psyche has More than One Subpersonality
Trump is the American psyche, but he is not all of it, and he is about to meet another of its sub-personalities which is preparing to drag him by his orange comb-over to the old father’s wood shed.
TRUMP—A BLACK SWAN HATCHED FROM THE SULFUROUS CORPSE OF ROY COHN
Trump’s tweeted accusation that Obama engaged in “McCarthyism” is stunningly ironic since Trump learned his MO from McCarthy’s notorious lawyer, Roy Cohn.
What We Should Be Reading: Trump, Totalitarianism, and Alt Worlds
Books about alternative facts, totalitarianism in Western democracies, and slipstreaming into “alt worlds” make this editor’s 2017 reading list.
Living in Dangerous Times
I consider television, and most recently the development of social media, to be the most powerful mind-control ‘drugs’ that have yet been developed, with their effectiveness at influencing and controlling docile (and often legally sedated) populations unparalleled in human history.
America, Donald Trump, and the Triumph of the Lie
The Trump victory represents the Triumph of the Lie. And Trump’s victory is the triumph of capitalism. For Donald Trump is the perfect capitalist: selfish, vulgar, bigoted, privileged. The worshipper of Mammon and no other gods.
Twin Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse
Behold the Janus-headed chimera of evil, the clownsnake, Trumputin. (an earlier version of this article was blank, but now it is whole)
Trump-Promoting Fake News a Cottage Industry for Macedonian Teenagers
“Not every quote attributed to a famous person is authentic, and not all the news you read online is credible.” —Abraham Lincoln
Post Trumpocalypse—an Alternative to Tantrum Politics
There are more strategic and effectual alternatives to the Trumpocalypse than venting or ineffectual forms of rebellion.
