I’m still clinging to the improbable notion that Trump’s candidacy is the culmination of a very long con performance art suicide bomb designed to blow apart the right wing for good and force the country to take a long hard look at itself.
There’s absolutely no evidence that’s the case, but I’d feel better if it’s an all-in submarine project than just “dimwitted demagogue panders to the worst in us.” It would be a cool plot twist kicker, but in real life instead of Memento or The Usual Suspects.
Has anyone coined the word “Trexit” yet?
this is not exactly true. e.g. Yanukovich was the guy initiating the EU/Ukraine agreement negotiations, a step greeted in Russia as traitorous.
his policies oscillated between pro-EU and pro-Russian, but this is kind of understandable as the Ukraine was under pressure from both overpowering neighbors.
there is a lot to criticise (I would start with corruption), but the approach ‘underling of Putin = ward of The Evil’ is too simplistic
I’m not particularly worried about life on the planet ending. I’m more worried about Trump looking so psychopathic that every country in the world bands together and takes us out first. Who would have mourned the loss of any Germans in 1941? They might be willing to sacrifice all Americans for a brighter future.
There’s nothing to show that this isn’t the case. Every single day’s “what not to do in a campaign” only supports the idea that this is a complete suicide mission.
Unfortunately (again) extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For me to believe that DJT is pulling off some Ozymandias-level stunt would require me to believe that Alan Moore not only exists but that he also accurately foretold a sideways version of the future thirty years ago.
Man, I’ll bet it’s hard for people who sold their party to a megalomaniacal nihilist intent on burning down their tent.
Hold on…I’ll grab my violin…
I would so vote for Lex Luthor for president! (Especially the “Diniverse” version voiced by Clancy Brown, but not the Jessie Eisenberg one).
Anyone who can think of political power like that as just a tiny part of a grander evil scheme has ambition and energy to spare. Think of what they can do for the public! That is, before he sells out all of humanity to some alien power.
Its all a wildly elaborate effort to help the wife of his golf buddy Bill, get the presidency. At least I tell myself that to feel better about what goes on. Sometimes you have to retreat into fantasy to avoid the harsh insane reality*
*Thanks to this election, I haven’t even bothered to watch season 4 of House of Cards yet. There is no way fiction can top this right now.
I wonder if there will be changes to how the primaries work. Maybe, for example, the candidate’s campaign can be blocked by some high % of congressmen 80%, 90%?) in a vote. It woudn’t be unconstitutional, and it would block a Trump from doing this again down the road, but …
The parties can outright nominate whoever they want already.
I know, but I imagine people would get upset if they started doing that, or following some other process that’s different than what they do today.
Some of the gentlest versions of Lex Luthor have him worried of Superman’s power getting in the way of humanity’s own genius - a concern actually shared by Superman himself.
I’d vote Lex Luthor over Donald Trump any day. At least Luthor is able to make sense.
But Superman called him out on that as BS in “All Star Superman” (I am going by the cartoon, I haven’t kept current with comics in a very long time). That at no point was Lex ever stopped from benefiting humanity by Superman. Even when Lex had ultimate power, he was using it to tussle with Superman instead of doing something beneficial.
Lex is definitely more deserving of my vote than Trump. At least one can see intelligence in Luthor. A malevolent one, but one which knows how not to come off as whiny and immature in public.
But selling out humanity to rogue Kryptonians in exchange for rulership of Australia is still a foul in my book. 
Well yeah, in those versions it’s his obsession with Superman that makes him oblivious to the greater good. Which makes him a far more interesting villain.
And his own ego too. It was just a way to rationalize what amounts to a monumental pissing match. He wasn’t too concerned with the greater good before Superman. In most versions the first encounter between Lex Luthor and Superman comes after some scheme of Lex’s is thwarted.
I’ve started work on the movie poster.
Once he gets rid of Superman, Luthor does bring the world into a millennia long period of peace and progress. However, one of his descendants from billions of years in the future sends his son away to escape the dying earth and he lands in a Ukrainian communist collective farm in 1938.
I can’t see Trump managing any of that.
It’s so bizarre how actual supervillains can end up with more nuance and humanity than these personal-brand politicians.
Having that omniscient view of their lives helps, but even comic book rhetoric seems less laughable than Trump’s quips for angry five-year olds that make USA Today look like fine literature 
I liked that series. Loved the whole closed time loop element to it.
But their Batman made no sense. Batman’s greatest superpower is being rich. Something which would have been inconvenient in the USSR from 1917 onward, unless they were part of the party inner circle. But this Bruce Wayne was the victim of political violence, not street crime.
