When President Obama who championed the reset option with
Russia and who even now is talking about cooperating with Putin in Syria in a
manner that will make America willfully complicit in the mass bloodletting that
is taking place there, waxes
critical of Trump’s positive attitude regarding Putin, there is something
delirium-inducing in the air.
When Trump is right about anything, as he is when he notes
how embarrassing and dangerous it is for hackers to be able to routinely acquire
access to America’s most secured servers, there is something delirium-inducing
in the air. His call
on Russia to find Clinton’s missing emails comes as further proof of that.
Trump may not be a Manchurian candidate in the sense that he
is a puppet in the hand of Putin or any foreign power, but the Manchurian
element in the Trump equation lies in the possibility of witnessing the
development of symbiotic relations between the two most powerful demagogues in
the world – a development that is bound to undermine America’s democracy, and
Western democracies in general, while strengthening autocrats all around the world.
When we see this possibility inching closer and closer to potential
fulfillment, and keep making light of it, there is something delirium-inducing
in the air.
When Trump seems to think f the president’s job as being the
entertainer-in-chief, there is something delirium-inducing in the air.
The point: we should all learn to breathe under water.
