
If one listens to commentary about Donald Trump – and there’s so much of it that banning the word ‘Trump’ would bankrupt WENA outlets – you would assume he was an anomaly in the system, the sum total of all unbalanced equations, antithetical to the American way of life. In recent times, his actions — expansionist tendencies, warmongering, using government agencies to target his opponents, justifying his actions, and snatching basic liberties — have been held up as something as un-American as socialism.
But Trump isn’t an aberration from past American presidents, but their Jungian composite sketch: the Expansionist, the Warmonger, and the Freedom Crusher.