The New Yorker Takes Aim At Trump
There are so many unprecedented aspects of life today that it’s hard to count them all. At the core of most of them, however, is the fact that the most powerful person on Earth is a sociopath, and that a large and growing number of people simply won’t pretend this isn’t happening and allow it to be normalized. They’re not giving up, they’re not going away, and again, their numbers are expanding by the day.
Here’s one organization that’s certainly not havin’ it: The New Yorker, with its seven-figure circulation of some of the world’s best educated and most sophisticated readers. I hope you’ll check out the summary of this op-ed by New Yorker editor David Remnick.
Craig,
“the most powerful person on Earth is a sociopath ”
That observation presumes two somewhat arrogant assumtions;
1) The US President is the most powerful person on Earth.
2) the US President is a sociopath.
Both facts are inaccurate.
The President of the US is not a Dictator, he has no real personal power and is accountable to congress,subject to the mood of the electorate, the US courts, constrained by the Constitution, beset by a nosy free media and limited to a maximum term of eight years.
In contrast with many world leaders, his personal power is pretty puny.
Referring to someone you dislike a ‘sociopath’, doesn’t make them one, nor, I would suggest, are you qualified to make such a diagnosis.
I’ve been an avid reader of the New Yorker for since my early teens, but David Remnick’s obsessive rants against Donald Trump have become tedious and repetitive.
The New Yorker has always been the sort of publication Trump supporters hate ! Elitist,condescending and snobbish, while retaining a chic leftist political slant.(great cartoons).
It’s unsurprising David Remnick loathes a President who talks like a construction worker. ( Remnick’s idea of a typical US household sit com, is Frazier).
I doubt the President is worried about New Yorker readers, they’re not really his constituents.
Craig, you star with two high subjective claims and then commend an article which rants;
“Political pamphlets awoke American colonists to the tyranny of King George all those years ago. And it’s political pieces like Remnick’s epic anti-Trump takedown that will awaken the American people to the tyranny of Trump today ”
Now if we look at the veracity of that statement, we find something in common with many of your own political claims, a total lack of accuracy !
King George the Third was no Tyrant, in fact quite the opposite. For his age, he was a deeply moral man in his personal life, and being a Constitutional possessed only limited influence on Government policy.
The American Revolution was instigated by those colonialists who wished to overthrow the Royal Proclamation Act of 1763 aimed at preventing dispossession and extermination of the Native Americans by placing a limit on westward expansion.
The constraint’s of the US political system prevent Presidential tyrany.
But of course any reader of the New Yorker would be well acquainted with such information, yet when the opportunity to use a convenient falsehood arises, you exploit falsehoods to further your objectives.
Isn’t that the sort of behaviour you claim is sociopathic ?