"The premise here is that some of these politicians are smart enough to notice that their party's leader, President Donald Trump, has gone bonkers-that his longtime tendency to conflate his ego's impulses with the nation's interests has hardened into psychogenic disorders of unprecedented intensity among previous occupants of the Oval Office-and that this merging is having dreadful consequences at home and abroad."
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a 'right of ownership' anyway? There are no written documents, it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also."
President Donald Trump sent a text to Norway's prime minister suggesting U.S. interest in Greenland and asserting a desire for "Complete and Total Control of Greenland." The message invoked a denied Nobel Prize, claimed credit for stopping wars, demanded reciprocity from NATO, and questioned Denmark's ownership by citing centuries-old boat landings. The text combined grandiose self-regard, historical distortion, and territorial assertion. Several Republican lawmakers continue to enable or fail to check these impulses. A small number of defections within the party could shift outcomes and alter the political consequences for democratic institutions.
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