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We can actually trust Trump...

Some may argue the claim that Trump lies like he breathes.  Most would agree that his words demand a great deal of interpretation.

What words from Trump can we trust?  Which of his words can we trust?

We really can't trust any of his words.  But we can trust his "character" - his strongest and most consistent emotions. 

We can trust his hates.

Trump hates authority.  He's never respected it.  He has consistently worked against authority.  

Trump hates people taking his money.  Even when they've earned it (a pattern of shortchanging contractors).  Like many, he hates paying taxes, any taxes.

His anti-authority and anti-tax stance resonates with many.

He can be trusted to rail against authority and the authority to take taxes.

Trump admires the rich, the powerful, the celebrities, striving over decades to be accepted by The Elite.  He dislikes anyone he perceives to be less than him. 

He appears to hate minorities.  One can argue that he doesn't actually hate minorities.  It's an argument of degree.  He certainly considers them Other and Less.

No one would argue that Trump is a policy wonk.  He doesn't sweat details.  He has to offshore the details.

Everyone will agree that he understands power.  He can be counted on to align with those who will give him power.  He is renowned to be narrowly transactional.  His "policy" is "fluid", but his hates are constant.

He either knows no nuance or cares not for it.  Scorched-earth is fine, because he cares not for the earth.

He hates incarceration.  None will doubt that he will do anything, he will destroy anything, to avoid his consequences - to avoid prison.  He's been undermining the institutions of justice, all the institutions of law, since well before he led the Obama Birther Movement.

He doesn't respect the law.  He doesn't know the law.  He cannot act within the law because he cares not to learn it and those who now counsel him do not care about the law.  He is choosing his counsel now based only on loyalty and similar hates.  

His calculus is twofold: solidifying power and destroying authority.  For authority will humiliate him.  

Further lessering of The Others appeals to both his power and his passion.

This is what we can trust of Trump.  

Oh, we have proof that he will burn this country down to protect himself - without regard to the greater cost.  

He has disparaged to discredit:

• The DOJ - because of his criminal activities
• The CIA - because of their lack of fealty to him and their power to incriminate him.
• Judges - due their ethnicity
• Non-partisan civil servants - maligning them as "the Deep State" because they hold the Rule of Law above loyalty to him.
• The US and State Election Systems - because it could help him in the event of a loss
• well, pretty much everyone insufficiently loyal to him, or insufficiently powerful, or already marginalized, or...   Pretty much everyone.

Respect, Empathy, Dignity - any virtue - is simply like the truth to him: it has no utility for him.

He concocted a Big Lie - the "stollen" election.  He hyped a "Stop the Steal" campaign calling supporters from around the country to the Capitol in a hare-brained illegal scheme to prevent the transition of power. 

He instigated a violent coup against the government to retain power unconstitutionally.

He committed treason.

Perhaps more than anything else, we can trust Trump to again and again to break the law and to commit Treason if given the opportunity.

We can trust Trump to plunge this nation into turmoil on November 5 if he loses.  But that would be a lesser and shorter turmoil than if he wins.

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