Face The Nation: David Nakamura, Susan Glasser, Henry Paulson

This is what normalization of insanity looks like. They look into the insanity and pick out the good they can find and focus on it, pretending that everything else is just fine.  Take Hitler, for example, focus on his building of the autobahn, creation of jobs and the industrial miracle he created and ignore the rest.  It works because most people have lives to live, jobs to get done and children to raise, they have little time to focus on other things, so they rely heavily on the media to inform them of the world beyond their front door, their neighborhood, their county, state and country. Thus, if the media acts like some stupidity is okay, or normal, or even smart, then so be it as far as the average person is concerned. 



Here Trump is destroying the country, consorting with dictators and corrupting the institutions we rely upon to enforce the laws.  The laws that keep us safe, not just from criminals who want to steal our goods, invade our homes and/or do terrible things to our daughters etc., but also from outrageous intrusions on our privacy and other rights, as well as prevent powerful people and politicians from assuming dictatorial powers accountable to no one.  Trump has not only wrecked our foreign policy, he has sent our allies packing, abandoned our negotiated and agreed upon treaties, while being unable to replace them with anything, because he simply hasn't either the skill or the brains to do so, nor can he hire anyone who does.



But this CNN program ignores all of that, it ignores the fact that the President is distressingly ignorant, a racist, a bully and would be dictator who has told over 9,000 lies and counting. Yet here they are insisting that this President still has something useful to offer in the form of credible offers that we can rely on proving true in the future. Can anyone still wonder why we're facing this mess?  Can you guess what disasters the next President and Congress will face because of what this failure has done? Whether anyone knows it or not, we're in for a lot of trouble which will probably take two or three decades to repair, if it can be done at all.