President demonstrates characteristics of nihilism

I have been reading about the issues posed by the new book entitled The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Each of the chapters is written by one of 27 psychologists or psychiatrists who have widely studied the post-election actions of that man. Their unanimous conclusion is that POTUS, considered by many to simply be an orange-haired buffoon to be outlasted, is truly insane and dangerous to each of us and to the Earth. Each of the Ph.D. mental health professors reaches the conclusion that Donald J. Trump is a man totally “unfit to discharge the powers and duties of the Office of President.” That quotation is from the Constitution at Article II, Section 2, Paragraph 5 as one of the legal bases for impeachment. One contributor, Dr. John Gartner, even circulated a petition to mental health professionals around the nation to which 60,000 have already responded that Mr. Trump is, in fact, suffering from delusions and is emotionally unfit for his office.

I always felt, historically, that Trump was but a “Daddy’s boy” and a sort of carnival barker. The single-most telling incident making me see him as a true danger to the nation actually came before the election during one of his televised debates with Secretary Clinton, when he walked over and stood directly behind her while she continued to speak from her podium, clearly intending to intimidate and distract her. That was the time I first recognized him as truly dangerous, i.e., not a mere fool; rather, a psychopath. Only someone horribly deranged would do that during an important, supposedly dignified debate with a peer — unless his or her desire was to disturb and disrupt her by a display of gargantuan gall.

He failed abysmally in that direct regard. But I am certain that maneuver was taken by many as one of his campaign high points, for he had done something theretofore never done in politics — or in any civilized debate context.

What made it successful is that he did precisely what his “base” of undereducated and underemployed would have wanted to see. That is, he was showing up the so-called “establishment.” The very people, as they then saw it, who had caused many of them difficulty.

Since the debate, matters have continued to go even further down, for not only has this fool shown himself to be an actual psychopath and even possibly a serial sexual molester, he has rejected his own political party, totally thrown aside those who elected him and is doing everything he can do to perpetuate his own brand of life and government, i.e., an oligarchy, rule by only the very wealthy.

But the worst part of Donald J. Trump’s reign is that he is so mentally unstable and has ruled with such a disregard for law, order and the welfare of the peoples of the Earth (not just of the U.S.) that it actually constitutes nihilism, that is, a total disregard of all law and regulation in favor of his whim, or impulse, of the moment.

DON SWITZER

Rogers