{"id":34899,"date":"2018-06-08T06:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T11:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34899"},"modified":"2018-06-08T06:25:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T11:25:03","slug":"rotten-to-the-heart-authoritarian-chickens-roosting-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34899","title":{"rendered":"Rotten to the Heart: Authoritarian Chickens Roosting at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/08\/rotten-to-the-heart-authoritarian-chickens-roosting-at-home\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rotten to the Heart: Authoritarian Chickens Roosting at Home<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_102783\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102783\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/2238323120_f8c6d90c9a_z.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/2238323120_f8c6d90c9a_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/2238323120_f8c6d90c9a_z-300x199.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by T toes | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Yes, He\u2019s Awful<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much of what liberals say about Donald Trump and the chilling political moment the Trump presidency represents is true enough.<\/p>\n<p>Trump really is the arch-authoritarian malignant narcissist that liberals say he is.\u00a0 Trump thinks he deserves to rule the nation like an absolute monarch or some ridiculous Banana Republic dictator.\u00a0 He believes he\u2019s above all the law, consistent with Louis XIV\u2019s dictum L\u2019etat, C\u2019est Moi (\u201cthe state is me\u201d). The notion that Trump can pardon himself from any crime really is the height of imperial arrogance.<\/p>\n<p>Trump really does value nothing but the advancement of his own wealth and image. There is no person, no principle, no higher loyalty he is not willing to sacrifice on the altar of self.<\/p>\n<p>Trump really is the almost perfect embodiment of venal malevolence that liberals say he is. The idiotic military parade Trump has scheduled for the next Veterans Day is an exercise in proto-fascistic, Mussolini-like imperial-presidential self-adulation.<\/p>\n<p>This racist and sexist beast befouls the nation and world with his ghastly, eco-cidal presence. The sooner he draws his last undeserved breath, the better for all living things (or maybe not: Mike Pence could be worse).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Authoritarian and Inauthentic Opposition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fine, but why does this despicable, orange-tinted <em>insult to common human decency\u00a0<\/em>occupy the White House? He holds the most powerful office in the world because the Democratic Party has long been and remains what the late liberal-left Princeton political scientist Sheldon Wolin called the Inauthentic Opposition. \u201cShould Democrats somehow be elected,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/11159.html\">Wolin prophesied<\/a>\u00a0in early 2008, they would do nothing to \u201calter significantly the direction of society\u201d or \u201csubstantially revers[e] the drift rightwards. \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotten to the Heart: Authoritarian Chickens Roosting at Home Photo by T toes | CC BY 2.0 Yes, He\u2019s Awful Much of what liberals say about Donald Trump and the chilling political moment the Trump presidency represents is true enough. Trump really is the arch-authoritarian malignant narcissist that liberals say he is.\u00a0 Trump thinks he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,5493,7844,15269],"class_list":["post-34899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-authoritarianism","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-paul-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34900,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899\/revisions\/34900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}