The real reason Trump didn’t want to shake hands with Merkel…
by Gaius Publius
As a joke, a phantasm, this meme is very good. But the emotional content it catches in the Trump-Merkel body language rings true. This is a boy. Too bad his handlers are very much men, and very dangerous men at that.
The breaking American state, the state that breaks other countries to its will, is breaking itself under stress of rule by the “deconstructing” Trump cadre.
Orderly rebellion, or rolling civil war? We’re headed for one or the other, perhaps even both.
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