Why Trump must fail at everything

Trump must fail at everything, in his presidential duties, because any success would require being part of humanity. But the feeling of being in humanity is beyond anathema to him. For him, to get even a sense of bond and benevolence is to be forced to feel the complete absence of love in his childhood. And to feel that loss is to feel unhuman, his utter aloneness, a being that never left the starting gate of birth, a waste of body and soul.

So every single thought or path must veer away from the known good, the caring. In the same way that a Reactive-Attachment child, broken from her mother at birth and institutionalized and adopted, must lie unnecessarily, must lie always and primitively not to feel reality, the reality of her initial failure, so Trump must never touch the good, the holding of others’ hands in love and life. He is the magnet only bonding negative to positive.

Immigrant children. Allies. Truth-reporting pundits. Medicaid. Pardoning of reprobates. The Kurds. NATO. Dismantling of the civil service. Budget cuts devastating rural America. White supremacists. Love of Putin. Disaster response. Firing the pandemic response team. On and on and on and on. The coronavirus. How could a president act incompetently and stubbornly in the face of a pandemic? He must. He cannot allow himself to be good. It’s too terrible a reminder.