Trump: The Man, Trumpism and Human Dignity

By Vlad Zeit

Trump is an archetypical mediocre man but with unique and terrifying collection of qualities: shamelessness and dishonesty, extraordinary and arrogant ignorance, total lack of honor, pomposity and burning urge of showmanship. Trump is a sick man who suffers from deep-rooted psychological problem - torment of insecurity.
Trump is a joke, farce and fraud. Trumpism is not. Trumpism is a child of the union of the modern American conservatism and eternal "vulgarity of the human heart".
"Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality" (Edmund Burke). The basic and crucial moral law of the free liberal democracies is the Dignity of Human beings. The USA has a long and tragic history of struggles to establish Human Dignity as its fundamental principle. This struggle is far from over and experiences of the last decades are marked by distressing defeats.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vlad Zeit
• Release date: Sep 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463569085

Vlad Zeit

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TRUMP: THE MAN, TRUMPISM

AND HUMAN DIGNITY

By Vlad Zeit

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. THE MAN

2. TRUMPISM

3. HUMAN DIGNITY

4. ON NATURE

THE MAN

The insidious horror of Snopesism is its lack of any kind of integrity – its pliability, its parasitic vitality as of low-grade, thoroughly stubborn organism…These are Flem’s special qualities… It is because he lacks honor that Flem is really invulnerable… Flem is a kind of monster who has betrayed everyone, first in his last for pure money-power and later in what Faulkner regards as a more loathsome lust, a desire for respectability.

(Cleanth Brooks on Snopes Trilogy by William Faulkner)

These are Trump’s special qualities: shamelessness and dishonesty, extraordinary and arrogant ignorance of undeveloped mind, pomposity, total lack of honor. To this list of the major traits of Trump’s personality a few critical others must be added: toughness of very rude insensitive man, absence of delicacy and sympathy to other human beings, vulgarity and tastelessness.

His personal views are defined by his roaring mediocrity: toughness and winning are the greatest attributes which count; doubt is a sign of man weakness; popularity is the true goal and manifestation of life accomplishments; success, measured by wealth, is undisputable evidence of intellect.

Trump is an archetypical mediocre man but with unique and terrifying collection of disgusting qualities. Trump’s presidency is vulgar show of arrogance and ignorance.

* * *

The circle of observers for whom the unstoppable stream of daily doses of falsifications and lies are still a matter of interest and consideration is getting noticeably smaller. Such stream ceased to be inexplicable baffling phenomenon and is transforming from curious amusement into the vulgar disgusting farce, embarrassing and unworthy of attention.

President Trump himself has never paid much consideration to lies he made public with ease and supreme indifference. At the same time, Trump’s attitude to the flow of moronic proclamations of his greatness and true place in the history of mankind is very different. It’s an area of big concern and incessant attention. The raging source of this overflow is the bonfire of the sick vanity, insatiable Super-ego, burning out-of-control urge of self-promotion; and all of it are signs and symptoms of deep-rooted psychological problem – torment of insecurity.

Trump is a sick man.

* * *

Trump is a quintessential showman. Lust for showmanship is what, above everything else, drive his choice of actions and Grand Appearance fully satisfies his shallow, overfilled with self-adulation nature. His infamous impulses are always directed at looking for show opportunities. His shows are not spectacles of high art and refinement, of course, but loud, in-your-face, unsophisticated, melodramatic, mostly vulgar and always pretentious bombastic sort. And