The whole civil fraud case against former President
Donald Trump is a sham. There were no victims in this legal fiasco. Not a
single person was defrauded, but the goofy judge claims that even with
no fraud victims, the law was broken because “orange man—bad.”
There was a debacle concerning whether Trump could secure the $454
million bond on the judgment, where commentators, who were blinded by
their schadenfreude over the ruling, must’ve missed this segment on CNN
where it was alluded that Mar-a-Lago might be worth hundreds of millions
of dollars. Trump’s bond was lowered to $175 million thanks to a last-minute ruling by an appellate court.
Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag once again penned an article
that wouldn’t see the light of day within liberal or elite
establishments because it hits too close to home. The pair invoked
Sigmund Freud to analyze liberal America’s insane lust to seize Trump’s
assets. They came up with how the Left’s anti-Trump tendencies reek of
Soviet-style authoritarianism, infantile regression, and gross disregard
for the Constitution and the rule of law—the latter part you probably
already knew about. It’s psychopathic and narcissistic behavior that
oozes from this Trump civil fraud case, the two characteristics that
lead to totalitarianism when a nation’s intellectual institutions become
infected with such tendencies. With Trump, liberals don’t even try to
hide it anymore (via Public):
NEW:
CNN says Trump’s Mar-A-Lago property is easily worth hundreds of
millions of dollars which he could use to pay New York AG Letitia James.
Now
that he may have to sell it, Mar-A-Lago is worth hundreds of millions
but when they needed to “bust” Trump for “fraud,” the property… pic.twitter.com/FzvtAOLc4M
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 22, 2024
Seizing
the assets of your political enemies is an activity we typically
associate with socialist and communist regimes. “Forfeiture and seizure
of assets?” asks O’Leary on CNN. “Is that the message we want to tell
people who want to bring their money here and protect their property
rights? To take a law that used to protect people against buying
refrigerators at an overpriced value decades ago and apply it against an
individual? And then talk about seizing assets? Like he was in
Venezuela?”
But the Democrats rooting for the seizure of Trump’s
assets appear more filled with tribal partisanship and hatred for the
Republican frontrunner than with communist ideology. Witness the
multiple MSNBC hosts who expressed childlike glee at the prospect of
bankrupting Trump.
While their motivations may differ from those of Venezuelan socialists, the impacts are the same.
Part
of what makes the behavior of elected Democrats like New York Attorney
General James and Judge Engoron, as well as the media elites cheering
them on so irrational is that they aren’t considering the wider impact
of their behavior. They aren’t considering how their ruling undermines
the Constitution and the rule of law. They aren’t considering the impact
their seizure of Trump’s assets would have on investors, businesses,
and working people. And they aren’t even considering the long-term
impact on the Democratic Party.
[…]
This TDS is analogous
to infantile regression, as described by Sigmund Freud and his daughter,
Anna. They argued that, psychologically speaking, many adults “regress”
to their childhood when under stress. “Like children,” noted
psychologist Cynthia Vinney in 2022, “adults sometimes regress, often as
a temporary response to a traumatic or anxiety-provoking situation.”
The stress for the Democrats prosecuting, convicting, and sentencing
him, was Trump as president.
Attempting to take nearly $500
million in a trumped-up civil fraud case constitutes a kind of tantrum
of highly entitled people. Imposing a historically unprecedented fine on
the front-running presidential candidate for business activities that
resulted in no victim is a behavior of people who feel highly entitled.
Such
entitlement is a key characteristic of narcissism, which is rising in
the culture and is near-identical to what Swiss researchers identified
as left-wing authoritarianism. People who espouse left-wing views and
want censorship and repression of their political enemies believe and
behave are entitled.
[…]
In his book Political Ponerology,
the late Polish psychologist Andrew M. Lobaczewski argues that
totalitarianism is the result of narcissists and psychopaths taking over
major societal institutions, from the universities to the justice
system. That is what appears to be happening now.
If an Attorney
General and a Judge can seize $464 million in assets from the
presidential front-runner for an alleged crime that has no victim, then
it would be more accurate to say that we have only a single political
system—and no true justice system at all. Worse, that system is rapidly
becoming psychopathological.
And look beyond Trump. On free speech, cancel culture, cultural
appropriation, and a host of other issues that are cornerstones to
American progressives, they all reek of an entitlement and
self-righteousness that fits in very well with the narcissists that
dominate the Left. To protect their talking points, these anti-free
speech protocols are deployed to ensure order. It’s not hyperbole to
think that if the Left had their way, we’d have sworn officers of the
Thought Police that are not too dissimilar from the Orwellian law
enforcement agency that keeps order in Oceania. The progressive agenda
cannot comport with our Constitution, which is why the modern Left aims
to destroy it. Aside from that, simple mathematics and market theories
gut most of the Left’s wishlist of a domestic agenda that one could
arguably now call full-blow communism. You’re seeing how their courts
would attack the leading candidate of the rival party.
The Trump
civil judgment and its reaction remind us of the monumental task we have
at hand in ensuring that we remain a free society. We have a political
party, its legions of dolts, and a media and cultural establishment that
are gung-ho in destroying us for having differing political beliefs.
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