Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Are the flaws of President Trump necessary to his accomplishments?


Watching President Trump's international reality show made me wonder how Trump lines up with the qualities of the tragic hero. Without Trump's flaws, especially his excessive pride, or hubris as the literary people like to call it, he probably would not have taken on, well, everyone, the whole elite establishment (or the swamp) and moved the U. S. away from the globalism that is killing us, or put up the politically incorrect travel ban---with the whole establishment and the entire corrupt Big Media obsessively against him.

Trump attained the lofty position required for the classic tragic hero to fall from due to flaws, such as having excessive pride, womanizing, and constantly lying. But do his accomplishments justify his punishment, or make his audience sympathetic to him? Could Trump have accomplished what he has accomplished without his flaws? Probably not.

A contrary thought to this is the case of Patrick Buchanan, who seemed to have everything Trump has without the flaws---although one flaw may be his religious objections to the evolutionary sciences.  Both men were conservative populists and greatly appealed to the middle of the country. But Trump took the presidency which gave him the power to accomplish what Buchanan could not do. Was it a flaw for Buchanan to take on the Israeli lobby which destroyed him? Or was it a flaw for Trump to do the opposite and win the presidency? We will see if Trump is destroyed, stabbed in the back, etc, or if he prevails, then we can make another, difficult, assessment.

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