Trump couldn’t pass a job interview
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes (IIRC) last week observed that Republicans are seriously considering nominating for president a man facing four federal and state indictments on 91 felony counts who, the last time he held office, tried to end the republic as we know it and sent a mob to sack the U.S. Capitol.
Ben Rhodes, former Obama deputy national security advisor, commented Thursday night on “the steady radicalization of the Republican Party and the trivialization of politics.” Regarding Donald Trump’s interview last week with fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Rhodes wrote that “the GOP frontrunner talked at length on this platform about vicious mosquitos, conspiracy theories, and general nonsense. A man who said those things in a job interview for just about any other position in the world wouldn’t get hired.”
Trump is also, you may have heard, 6′-3″ and 215 pounds of rippling muscle.
BTW, Trump this week declared himself the winner of another golf tournament (at a club he owns) in which he totally did not cheat. Trust him on that:
The Trump phenomenon was only possible, Rhodes added, “because of a Republican party that descended into grievance based insanity after the Obama election, and too much (not all) political media that cares only about performative nonsense.”
(To be blunt, plenty of registered Democrats, likely driven by the same grievances, also voted for Trump. Twice.)
Regarding the candidates on the GOP debate stage last week, Rhodes wrote:
Consider the fact that Vivek Ramaswamy, a man who has precisely zero interest in performing any functions of the U.S. presidency, is heralded for a performance in which he mainly demonstrated his complete lack of fitness to run for any office, nevermind the most powerful one.
Meanwhile, what’s at stake? The livelihoods of Americans. A world in which there is the biggest European war since World War II and the potential for a war between nuclear-armed superpowers in East Asia. The survivability of the planet.
We’re unpaid extras inside The Twilight Zone. Except those episodes were over in 30 minutes.