A Trumpster Fire

Hello.

The internet is tumescent today with tales and takes on the absurd, melodramatic, infantile if inevitable breakup of the bros. I do think there is a bigger picture. It was drawn 80 years ago by a British political cartoonist named David Low.

David Low — who is barely remembered today — was one of the greatest and most daring cartoonists who ever lived; he was one of the first to label the Nazis as what they were: dangerous lunatics. The Third Reich targeted him as a leading candidate for incarceration and death following their planned invasion and subjugation of Britain.

Low drew the illustration above after Rudolf Hess, a top deputy of Hitler, escaped from Nazi Germany in April 1941 and piloted a plane to England, where he planned to negotiate for peace. Hess was a genocidal monster, but a pragmatist. He saw how the war was going. After his escape, Hitler and his crew declared that Hess “must have been mad.” Hence, the cartoon.

I think this is a point that is sadly being lost in the daily chaos of the Trumpian regime, and the mainstream media’s tendency to sanewash: The Trump team are incompetent lunatics. The very public, very vicious falling out between Trump and Musk is merely a symptom of that. Trump has surrounded himself with Goerings and Goebbelses and such.

Goering was a drug addict, as are Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth. Goebbels was an unapologetic yet skilled purveyor of lies, like Karoline Leavitt. Heinrich Himmler was a conscienceless sicko, like Stephen Miller. Hans Frank, Hitler’s lawyer, twisted laws for ideological reasons, like Pam Bondi. Hitler had a scheming, bloodless, brilliant Mephistophelean adviser in Martin Bormann. Trump has Steve Bannon. And so forth.

To Trump, as to Hitler and — more famously attributed (probably incorrectly) to Lenin — Trump’s aptly named “base” are useful idiots. Trump lies to them with impunity, assuming they are too dumb, or too besotted with him, to question him.

And now Musk has escaped the regime. He must be mad.

That’s the only point I want to make here.

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