Politics of Fear Led to Storming of Capitol Hill
Bob Woodward’s book Fear:Trump in the White House had a telling statement attributed to Donald Trump, ‘The most important thing is to be feared’ – and like all bullies, Donald Trump drove that fear into all contrarian voices within his Republican party, and not too many had dissented openly.
When Bill Weld was queried about the deafening silence from within the Republican Party, even when Presidential matters were hitting new lows, he had said, “There’s too much pretending going on in [Republican] Washington DC. That’s the nub of the problem. Everyone’s pretending that the president—he’s just a little different. They’re indulging him in his malignant narcissism. A malignant narcissist is someone who’s only happy when other people are losing”.
But when Trump himself lost at the electoral hustings; it was his time to be unhappy—the problem was in the expression of the same. The genie of the Trump formula had…