edelsont | The truth is out there (Reply)

Well, my truth, anyway. Specifically, my views on Donald Trump's "perfect" conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart, and about what has happened as a result of it: all of a sudden, the I-word (impeachment) has gone from being taboo to being on many people's lips.

As things stand right now, the most complete collection of my writings on this subject can be found on the page called "The Decline and Fall of Donald Trump", whose URL is

https://people.well.com/user/edelsont/politics/decline-and-fall/index.html

That page has a few paragraphs of introduction, followed by links to two sub-pages (so far): "Suddenly, everything is impeachy" and "In-competence We Trust."

If the title of the first sub-page sounds familiar, that's because its body text is a copy of the most recent entry in this, my Dreamwidth journal. But the second sub-page, the one about incompetence, is new. It suggests that Trump is not only morally unfit for his job, but also incompetent at it, in a value-neutral sense. And furthermore, because of the stress he is under, his incompetence is getting progressively worse.

That's at least partly good news, for those of us who believe that his goals are mostly bad ones. The more incompetent he is, the less likely he is to achieve those goals.

And right now, his central goal is to stay in office.

So the rhetorical purpose of the incompetence page is to give encouragement to those who hope that he will not stay in office much longer; in other words, to give support to my prediction that Donald Trump will cease being president in January of 2021, if not sooner.

I hope that you will choose to read "The Decline and Fall of Donald Trump," and its sub-pages. But even more, I hope that the foregoing "fair and balanced" description of what is to be found there will enable you to make an informed decision of your own as to whether to do so.