Magical thinking

I think many people misunderstand the essential nature of the Resident ' s relentless spewing of lies. Many say they should properly be classified as bullshit, because he doesn ' t care whether what he says is true or false. But I would go further. He actually inhabits a universe in which whatever he says becomes the truth.Here is an AP timeline of just some of his lies about the coronavirus epidemic. Note a common quality of many of them, e.g.Asked, for instance, by CNBC on Jan. 22 if there were worries about a pandemic, Trump said, " No. Not at all. And — we ' re — we have it totally under control. It ' s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It ' s going to be just fine. "In February, he asserted that coronavirus cases were going “very substantially down, not up” and told Fox Business it will be fine because “in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that’s a beautiful date to look forward to.”" It ’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear,” he added on Feb. 27.“It’s got the world aflutter, but it’ll work out,” Trump told a meeting of the National Association of Counties on March 3.He believes his words have power over reality. This form of delusion is actually a common feature of conservative thought. Anthropogenic climate change means that the so-called Free Market ™ must be constrained by public policy, and that conclusion is unacceptable, therefore it is not happe...
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