'Is Trump’s wickedness too immense for us to absorb?' This was TC's question that came closest to the Trump Effect on me. He eats up space, fills ours ears, and assaults the senses. This piece by TC calls up the pain and suffering that is Trump. It uncomfortably reminded me of many millions who flock to him. His ugliness looks like a w…
'Is Trump’s wickedness too immense for us to absorb?' This was TC's question that came closest to the Trump Effect on me. He eats up space, fills ours ears, and assaults the senses. This piece by TC calls up the pain and suffering that is Trump. It uncomfortably reminded me of many millions who flock to him. His ugliness looks like a winner, a shiny gold mountain of success to his worshippers.
There are many questions around Trump. What is the America that elected him to the presidency? It isn't only the flaccidity of the Republicans; what of our government; what about his force so able to dominate and to have gotten away with evil for so long? It is very disturbing to feel him clinging to us. We cannot shake him. Trump has been carrying on for so long that he's inside us. Do we have a sense of guilt for not ridding ourselves of him? We don't want to absorb Trump, but he worked his way into our pores, our heads and our hearts. I think that we understand him; that we have absorbed him and that we cannot stand it. Trump dulls our hopes and our resiliency.
As a side note, comparisons between evil and wicked are as such:
'The two adjectives wicked and evil both have similar meanings; they both mean immoral or sinful. However, the adjective wicked also has some alternative meanings which sometimes have a very different meaning from evil. The key difference between wicked and evil is that wicked can have connotations of mischief, playfulness whereas evil is indicative is malevolence, immorality and sin'
'Is Trump’s wickedness too immense for us to absorb?' This was TC's question that came closest to the Trump Effect on me. He eats up space, fills ours ears, and assaults the senses. This piece by TC calls up the pain and suffering that is Trump. It uncomfortably reminded me of many millions who flock to him. His ugliness looks like a winner, a shiny gold mountain of success to his worshippers.
There are many questions around Trump. What is the America that elected him to the presidency? It isn't only the flaccidity of the Republicans; what of our government; what about his force so able to dominate and to have gotten away with evil for so long? It is very disturbing to feel him clinging to us. We cannot shake him. Trump has been carrying on for so long that he's inside us. Do we have a sense of guilt for not ridding ourselves of him? We don't want to absorb Trump, but he worked his way into our pores, our heads and our hearts. I think that we understand him; that we have absorbed him and that we cannot stand it. Trump dulls our hopes and our resiliency.
As a side note, comparisons between evil and wicked are as such:
'The two adjectives wicked and evil both have similar meanings; they both mean immoral or sinful. However, the adjective wicked also has some alternative meanings which sometimes have a very different meaning from evil. The key difference between wicked and evil is that wicked can have connotations of mischief, playfulness whereas evil is indicative is malevolence, immorality and sin'
Oh Fern, the gut-wrenching reality of evil.