Trump And The Alt-Right

When Rolling Stone's great Matt Taibbi rips somebody a new one, it's a thing of beauty.  This time, it's Trump and his "base."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-why-trump-cant-quit-the-alt-right-w498515

Excerpts:

The president seemed paralyzed by the fact that some of the Charlottesville protesters wore MAGA hats, an indemnifying variable in Trump-math:  "They like me, therefore they are me.  And me can't be all bad -- even if me is a Nazi."

White supremacist nitwits may be the only thing Trump has left resembling a base of support.  Similar to his financial empire, every other part of his political coalition was borrowed, temporary, inherited or acquired by fraud.  And the notes are all coming due.

Trump's presidency has been reduced to a Gilligan's Island of family members, in-laws, white-power Rasputins, hired help like John Kelly, and whatever soon-to-be-disbarred lawyers they've been able to find to rack up billable hours stalling the boss's multitudinous criminal and civil messes.

Was he smart enough to play heel and statesman in the same breath as a strategic ploy, or was that a disorganized brain doing its natural tumble?  Trump hyped this question like the reality star he was:  Tune in next week to find out just how dangerous or insane I really am!

Life in the Trump era is like the president's favorite medium, Twitter:  an endless scroll of half-connected little anger Chiclets rapidly spinning us all into madness and conflict, with no end in sight.

Trump has shown that his power to bring out the worst in people is limitless.  And we should know by now that he's never finished, never beaten.  Historically, he's at his most dangerous when he's at his lowest.  And he's never been lower than now.