Agree with David French in the NYTimes about how & why Trump is irreplaceable 🤞🏼🙏🏻 as MAGA’s dear leader. Reminded me of John Fetterman in a New Yorker profile this summer making the same point, brilliantly comparing Trump to Stephen King’s killer clown Pennywise. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/o...

I worked as a film/tv editor for a few decades and I’ve long said that there’s something often captivatingly charismatic about dysfunctionally narcissistic people. I suspect that, to our lizard brains, their illness conveys a false assuredness and expertise that’s alluring.

The right wing wants to convince us that everything will be ok, if one obnoxious figure is removed from the scene. Yeah right. He is a symptom of right wing politics: noisy, grotesque… but not as special as one might think. French has an agenda as messenger for the religious right.