David Rothkopf, CEO and Editor Of Foreign Policy Magazine, has produced the best piece I have yet seen on the nightmarish, buffoonish Black Comedy we are watching acted out in front of our unbelieving and despairing eyes.
The piece is subtitled While we endlessly watch for the latest blunder or scandal, America is being pulled dangerously off course.
Mr. Rothkopf begins his essay sketching America’s and the Donald’s narcissism, a study so laborious as to require three rather wordy paragraphs in an otherwise short but disturbing read. The upshot of this introduction is that Drumpf is a “Transcendental Solipsist” for whom our attentions are mere worlds to be eaten.
Luckier are the denizens of the thriving megalopolis of Shenzhen, China, whom Rothkopf has been sojourning with, who are much too busy building their future to pay much attention to Trump - as we cannot help but watch his destruction of our present.
But despite their blessed remove from all things Trumpian, they have apprehensions also.
“But there is another dimension to the Trump phenomenon that has Chinese observers uneasy. As the same business leader said to me, “We don’t mind it when you leave more room for us to grow. But you do play an important role in keeping the world safe. The world needs the United States. And right now when we look at threats in our region or the unpreparedness of your leaders (a reference to the recent not very well-received trip of America’s phantom Secretary of State Rex Tillerson) we are getting more and more worried.”