I was thinking today about the creep’s latest conspiracy theory — his claim that his predecessor’s presidential pardons don’t count because some of them may have been signed with an autopen. It’s a completely idiotic assertion, particularly given the number of times that he himself signed via autopen during his first term.
Of course the assertion itself doesn’t actually make any sense. But I don’t think that making sense was the point of this latest bit of craziness.
I think the point of all of his wild falsehoods and actions — claiming that Ukraine started the war that Russia started by invading Ukraine, randomly deporting university professors for no reason, I could go on and on here — is to relentlessly pile one obvious falsehood on top of another, so as to continually stoke rage, to the point where the very concept of rational discussion breaks down.
If there can no longer be rational discussion, then truth doesn’t matter. And that’s how autocrats destroy democracies on their way to absolute power.
So sure, the creep is once again being crazy. But he is being crazy like a fox.