1/22/21: Now that Reject-President Trump
has escaped to Mar-a-Lago, it might be time to revisit the “Stages of Grief.”
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“It should have been obvious to everyone that Mr. Trump was unstable, impulsive, compulsively dishonest and staggeringly narcissistic.”
Peter Wehner, veteran of three Republican administrations
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Unfortunately, Donald is having a hellish time getting past denial, and nowhere close to “acceptance,” normally, the final stage.
Today, we feel compelled to insert a few extra stages since we last compiled the list. The original six are in bold:
The Twenty Stages of Grief
Denial
Tweeting
Golfing
Grifting
Anxiety
Envy
Hiding out
Desperation
Bargaining
Stupidity
Hallucinating
Lying
Anger
More Lying
Incitement
Rioting
Depression
Impeachment
QAnon
silliness
Biden
Inauguration
Acceptance
Still no sign
he is moving any closer to the final stage. (See: 11/25/20, 12/15/20 and
12/16/20 for previous iterations of this list.)
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ON THE OTHER HAND, not everyone is sad to see the 45th President of the United States waddle off to Mar-a-Lago. Peter Wehner, a lifelong Republican (until the rise of the Orange Buffoon), who served in the Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 administrations has a great deal to say in a New York Times essay:
This is a text I received from a
prominent conservative Christian minutes after President Biden’s Inaugural
Address: “I broke down sobbing. It’s been a long five and a half years.”
Shortly after that, Scott Dudley, senior
pastor at Bellevue Presbyterian Church in Bellevue, Wash., emailed me a note
that said, “I never thought I would be moved to tears watching a Democratic
president get sworn in, but I was. It just felt so good to hear someone who
understands and loves this country and Constitution, and is an honorable
person, take the oath. I’m praying for healing.”
Wehner lists
a number of Trump’s most egregious sins, then adds:
But the most dangerous and unsettling thing about President
Donald Trump was his sociopathic tendencies. It should have been obvious to
everyone that Mr. Trump was unstable, impulsive, compulsively dishonest and
staggeringly narcissistic.
One prominent Republican who has served in Congress told me
recently, “Trump sunk much lower than I thought he would.”
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IN HIS FIRST interviews since the departure of the President Who Hated Science, Dr. Anthony Fauci seemed almost giddy to be able to appear at a press conference and speak freely. Asked how he felt, now that Trump was gone, and Biden was in charge, he answered, “It’s obviously a very different situation. It’s complete transparency. Nobody is telling you what to say, at all. They are just saying go out there and let the data guide you on what you are saying.”
Was this different than when President Trump was in charge, a reporter asked the infectious disease expert?
“There were things that were said, be it regarding things like hydroxychloroquine and other things like that, that really was an uncomfortable thing because they were not based on scientific fact,” Fauci admitted. “I can tell you, I take no pleasure at all being in a situation with contradicting the [previous] president.”
“When
you deal with a global pandemic, you have to have global connectivity,
cooperation, collaboration and solidarity. That was one of the first things
that the [new] president wanted to make sure happened,” he continued. For
example, Dr. Fauci was glad that the U.S. had reentered the World Health
Organization.
In an interview on CNN, Fauci was asked if he believed a lack of candor on the part of some in the Trump administration cost lives?
“You know, it very likely did,” he said.
He went on to say, “Particularly when you’re in the situation of almost being in a crisis with the number of cases and hospitalizations and deaths that we have – when you start talking about things that make no sense medically and no sense scientifically [emphasis added], that clearly is not helpful.”
He added, finally, that it’s “not helpful” when “you’re starting to go down paths that are not based on any science at all.”
Like this guy:
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The president on March 23, 2020. |
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