Retribution shall be mine!

Created
Mon, 06/03/2023 - 02:30
Updated
Mon, 06/03/2023 - 02:30
Shrinking CPAC wants what Trump wants Donald Trump’s fading star has not kept media outlets from covering him the way he wants to be covered. Almost any attention is good attention. The “deeply wounded narcissist” has a bottomless need for it. Almost as much as his followers’ need for retribution against the citified and nonwhite unworthies slowly eating into their political and cultural supremacy. “I believe former President Trump to be a deeply wounded narcissist, and he is often incapable of acting other than in his perceived self-interest or for revenge,” said Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer during Trump’s administration. “I think those are the two compelling instincts that guide his actions.” Trump said it himself at CPAC: “In 2016, I declared: I am your voice,” he said, speaking for just over 100 minutes from a bright blue and red stage in a cavernous ballroom at the closing speech of the CPAC event in Maryland. “Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution,” he said. And you are just fawning tools, Trump did not say. Fewer are lining up, but the press still covers him/them. Marcy Wheeler offers a brief thread on where Trump press coverage goes wrong: The way to cover Trump’s CPAC speech is NOT to cover his promise to stay in the race if he’s indicted, it’s to point out how similar THIS SPEECH is for things he may be indicted for.…