It’s not unknown, of course.
In
ancient Egypt, there was the symbol of the ouroboros, the snake that
eats its own tail. Nerve-addled octopuses sometimes consume their own
arms.
But we’ve never watched a president so hungrily devour his own presidency.
Soon, there won’t be anything left except the sound of people snickering.
Consumed
by his paranoia about the deep state, Donald Trump has disappeared into
the fog of his own conspiracy theories. As he rages in the storm,
Lear-like, howling about poisonous fake news, he is spewing poisonous
fake news.
The
Hirshhorn has a sold-out exhibit of Yayoi Kusama’s stunning infinity
mirror rooms. But they are nothing compared to the infinity mirror room
of Trump’s mind, now on display a mile and a half away at the White
House.
Many
voters who took a chance on the real estate mogul and reality TV star
hoped he would grow more mature and centered when confronted with the
august surroundings of the White House and immensity of the job. But
instead of improving in office, Trump is regressing. The office has not
changed Trump. Trump has changed the office.
He
trusts his beliefs more than facts. So many secrets, so many plots, so
many shards of gossip swirl in his head, there seems to be no room for
reality.
His
grandiosity, insularity and scamming have persuaded Trump to believe he
can mold his own world. His distrust of the deep state, elites and
eggheads — an insecurity inflamed by Steve Bannon — makes it hard for
him to trust his own government, or his own government’s facts. (Continues)
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