Robert - is anyone you know whose professional qualifications & public standing would make this a plausible subject for public discussion suggesting that Trump has simply become deranged. There seems to me to be limited point in analysing his and his cult-followers extraordinary ravings - they are inarguably and a priori both loony (we say batty in the UK) & indefensible.
First they came for trans people and immigrants and I did nothing because I’m a Republican member of Congress and that’s how I got elected.
Then they came for USAID and I stopped holding town meetings because the farmers in my district were no longer benefiting from the $2 billion that USAID spent annually to buy US crops to feed the starving.
Then they came for Medicare and Social Security and I did nothing because Congress has its own pension and healthcare.
Then they came for Congress because t…