Stop the craziness
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
August 26 at 10:00 AM
President Trump has an animal instinct for finding an opponent’s vulnerability and then attacking it. His nicknames not only denote disrespect but also serve to keep his opponents’ weakness, or perceived weakness, front and center. It was “Low Energy Jeb,” “Little Marco” and “Crooked Hillary.” (By the way, as his own mental and emotional state has unraveled, he’s gotten less adept at coming up with these.)
The tactic is quite effective: See Jeb Bush, immediately think of the nickname and then conclude, “You know he is ‘low energy.' ”
Likewise, his “Make America Great Again” slogan encapsulated his appeal — a throwback to a time when America was dominated by white, Christian males, popular culture was benign and neither immigrants nor foreign trade were a fact of life. Now “MAGA” red hats denote Trump, and Trump’s image of the national savior (quite literally, he thinks, the Second Coming) is fixed in his supporters’ minds.
Democrats should not get down in the mud with Trump. They should not spew obscenities, cruel remarks and bigoted stereotypes. However, they do want to name Trump’s greatest weakness and create an easy-to-remember message associated with the Democratic nominee. I humbly offer: “Stop the Craziness” (or “Stop the Crazy” or “End the Crazy,” if you want to fit it on a hat).
After all, Trump’s most defining feature these days is a frightful, manic personality more detached from reality than ever before. On Sunday, newly announced candidate Joe Walsh described the phenomenon that most of us have observed but too few say out loud: "We’ve got a guy in the White House who’s unfit. Completely unfit to be president. … "Everybody believes — in the Republican Party, everybody believes that he’s unfit.” He continued, “The country is sick of this guy’s tantrum. He’s — he’s a child. Again, the litany — he lies every time he opens his mouth. Look at what’s happened this week. He is — the president of the United States is tweeting us into a recession. I can tell you … that most of my former colleagues up on the Hill, they agree privately with everything I’m saying.” He reiterated, “You can’t believe a word he says. And again, I don’t care your politics, that should concern you. He’s nuts. He’s erratic. He’s cruel. He stokes bigotry. He’s incompetent. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.”
We don’t need a medical diagnosis or the 25th Amendment to conclude Trump is crazy in the colloquial sense — cuckoo, nuts, non compos mentis, off his rocker, unhinged. Even Republicans who like the tax cuts or the judges at some level understand this is not normal behavior and, at key moments, feels downright scary.
Name his greatest weakness. Say out loud what’s in the thought bubble above everyone’s head. And you can be certain between now and Election Day 2020, he will say and do things that confirm he is unfit and unstable. Crazy Trump.
more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/26/stop-crazy/?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
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