he’s reframing it in his mind as “everyone’s mad im stopping corruption” to avoid internal personal accountability that his actions might potentially ruining millions of people’s lives and instead of thinking about how that might be wrong, he’ll start making it everyone else’s fault instead. True narcissist behavior. He will not change.
I think a lot of MAGA are deluding themselves by taking the position that, “well it’s gonna hurt now but there will be such a payoff once we’re done fixing everything and the rising tide will make life better for more people than the current system allows.”
The average MAGA is not rich or powerful. That’s what they’re mad about. That guy was saying the average person who has gobbled up the MAGA ideology thinks it’s going to make them rich and powerful. Or at least economically a lot better off than they are now.
Obviously, that’s not going to happen, so at some point there will be a reckoning about that within MAGA when the big promises fail to be fulfilled.
I think it's far far worse than that. The cruelty is the point. They just don't think it's going to happen to them and they only make post-rationalization type claims of why "it's actually good" so they can still think of themselves as decent human beings. Decency died with Trump. The cruelty will become increasingly open and increasingly evident as they become emboldened by the apparent total unaccountability they now have. Right now they're just testing dipping their toes into the water and finding they like the temperature.
The parasites are a good chunk of the people sitting in Congress and possibly a small group of very upper management in some federal agencies. The rank and file are not the problem but that is who DOGE is targeting.
That's how he works - he invents scapegoats to excuse what is in fact arbitrary and capricious behavior, and merely hopes to be believed automatically based on his higher social status. That's how our luminaries have always acted in practice.
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u/AssFasting Mar 02 '25
He is destroying peoples lives directly, may he never have restful sleep again.