To my knowledge, Trump is still alive. But I’ve been thinking about what will happen if he dies in office. The Heritage Foundation has to have a plan. They’ve been planning a corporate faschist takeover of the United States for 50 years and Project 2025 was the culmination of their efforts. I’ve been wondering how long they would deny Trump’s death. I would expect some really crazy executive orders that are clearly beyond presidential authority (revoking the 14th and 19th amendments, for example) that will be signed in the days after his actual death but before we are informed about it. Then they will announce it and that the last batch of orders must be upheld as a “dying man’s wish”. THEN we’ll learn Trump was already gone before they were signed. They’re that scheming, and that stupid. At least, they think the rest of us are stupid enough to accept anything without thinking about it.
Trump’s populism is hard to explain. All my life I’ve watched this man and never once did I think he was authentic about anything other than the grift. I probably learned the word grift just to understand this buffoon who kept demanding my attention and my money to buy his steaks, vodka, or university. He has never done anything to appeal to me, and until he got into politics, nothing he did affected my life. I don’t see how people could look at him and attach any positive trait like “trustworthy” or “kind” or “intelligent”. When I measure Trump against the Stoic cardinal virtues all I find are the vices. When I read through Jung’s Archetypes I only recognize him in the shadow side of the children. When I measure him against a scale from Zero to Jesus he doesn’t even get a score. I don’t get it. I don’t get how people could look on him favorably, but I’ve always been an odd duck who marches to the beat of his own drummer.
However, I think Project 2025 is doomed to fail without Trump. Trump’s narcissism has forced him to surround himself with people even more stupid and incompetent than he is. No one in the administration has this strange charisma that gets people to listen. I doubt MAGA will follow Vance or Miller or the rest of them. They want, as far as I can tell, a leader who tells them their troubles are someone else’s fault and it’s okay to hate them for it. Nobody can do that like Trump. The televangelists have been trying for decades and Trump won’t let them near him. He gets the D-List televangelists who tell him he is the second coming of Christ without laughing or going up in a puff of sulfur.
The news these past weeks has not impressed me with the idea that Trump is healthy. In fact, he’s never looked healthy to me at all, but he seems to have slipped from deliberately stupid to dementia in the past few weeks.
Trump seems to finally understand that he will die. I think basic human mortality finally reached him. He won’t accept it, of course, because everything he values (money and egoboo) can only be found here, as far as we know. If everyone is rich in heaven, it will be torment for Trump and his ilk, because if everyone has money, you can’t have more money than anyone else, and that’s his ideal. Maybe he heard Jesus talking about building up treasures in heaven and realized he hasn’t done so. It’s more the pity that he has spent his entire life not knowing what happiness is.
So when Trump does pass away, I am sure I will feel relief. The nightmare will soon be over.