One of my meta-takes on Trump & the Trump years is that all your critiques of him do not put HIM in a bad light-- he is what he is, has been from the world go, is incapable of being different. They are are damning indictments of US politics & culture. He reflects our dysfunction.

It's not news that he a malignant narcissist who cares for nothing & is incapable of long-term thought. You're not revealing anything by pointing that out (again). What you're revealing is that US culture is so broken that it actively elevates, enables, & protects Trumps.

Trump is a theatrical case, but all across US culture, dumb, egotistical, rich white guys are doing dumb shit, being cruel, flailing & fucking up, and they're protected from consequences by the grifters, climbers, & mini-authoritarians around them.

There's no point in condemning Trump, I guess I'm saying, any more than there is condemning an amoeba, or a shark. The lessons of these years are about the system that elevates & empowers them -- a system that will still exist when Trump is gone.

Like, if you came into a friend's house & there was a grizzly bear smashing his stuff, you wouldn't say, "this grizzly is behaving inconsiderately! We must call on the bear to calm down." Nah. It's a bear. The problem is why/how it was let in! And how to keep the next bear out.