Cast Him Out: No More MAGAmazement
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Prospero
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Active measures
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Folie à deux
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The author uses 'folie du pays' (madness of the country) as a key concept, a deliberate variation on this psychiatric term for shared delusion. Understanding the clinical phenomenon of how delusions spread between people illuminates the article's central thesis about collective political enchantment.
PROSPERO
Be collected:
No more amazement…
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PROSPERO
My high charms work,
And these mine enemies are all knit up
In their distractions. They now are in my power,
And in these fits I leave them…
—William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”
What dread sorc’ry is this? What magic rough?
The MAGA Mage bewitches you: the stuff
Of nightmare, when a people, bound by bluff,
Doth take him at his word—this evil, gruff,
Perverted monster, lord of lies. Enough!
I wave my wand, and now his huff and puff
Doth I expose: his magic spell I snuff.
I beseech you: read the words below out loud.
These statements are not only true, they are obviously true. A child can see that. They are common sense. Only the power of his dark orange magic, abetted by the greedy oligarchs, amplified by the obsequious media, and flaccidly resisted by the hapless opposition party, perpetuates the curse, and extends the folie du pays.
Read the words below out loud, I tell you! Let them break the spell!
He is comically, objectively, and dangerously unfit to be president. By any conceivable metric.
Look at him. Open your eyes and look at him. What do you see? He is old, infirm, senile, stupid, gullible, selfish, unscrupulous, venal, petty, cruel, hateful, untrue, immature, needy as a child, and insufferably dull.
He is a racist, a rapist, a sexist.
He is not just evil; he is contemptuous of good.
He makes us the laughingstock of the world, and the only reason the world hasn’t completely turned on us is because it fears our economic and military might.
No one worthy of respect respects him.
No decent person would want him as a Thanksgiving guest, let alone the leader of the free world.
He is not just a failed president but a failed human being.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
He lies. He lies as he breathes. He lies just to lie, to push the boundary of truth.
He demands his acolytes also lie—the more brazen the lie, the better.
The willingness to lie on his behalf he sees as a test of loyalty.
His press secretary is one of the most egregious liars the world has ever produced, her torrent of lies exceeded only by those of his hand-picked and clearly compromised House Speaker—and, of course, by him.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his
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