What to Do About Trump Fatigue Syndrome

By John Rennie Short

I have just been diagnosed with an illness, TFS. It is injurious to long-term health and perhaps too early to say whether it is fatal.

TFS stand for Trump Fatigue Syndrome. It is caused by overexposure to President Donald Trump. Its symptoms include a depressing sense of watching the same drama over and over again. And just like being stuck in a movie theater watching a badly scripted and poorly produced B movie, it begins with feelings of exhaustion then panic with the realization that it may never end.

All diseases have vectors; the carriers of this disease are the mass media of both left and right political persuasion. They cover Trump endlessly became it generates more viewers and listeners. The presentations are suitably tailored to appeal to their respective audiences. Trump the hero of the forgotten Americans on Fox News. Trump the political incompetent on CNN. Trump generates money for the networks whatever their position. He makes news and attracts viewers through constant controversies.

The president provides all the tweets, images, talking points, and general mayhem: all the media has to do is to roll the camera and queue the talking head panels. For the mass media Trump is the equivalent of easy money; for the audience the equivalent of empty sugar calories that produce a buzz but not much substance. In the age of Trump fascination there’s no need to send reporters on overseas missions, or do deep reporting about what ails the republic and its peoples. The cheap and easy coverage of Trump allows us to imagine that we are engaged in political debate or critical analysis while in reality we are just party to a flim flam show masquerading as the US presidency.

All diseases have symptoms. For those on the left there is a rising sense of exasperation about what the president does and says. Outrage is continually aroused leading to exhaustion. For those more to the right there is a feeling of resentment against the antipathy to their president. Again, outrage is continually aroused leading to exhaustion.

Most diseases have cures. We should begin our diagnosis with the realization that we no longer inhabit a republic of political debate but a squalid banality of neo-reality television. This fever of constant outrage will have to be purged or it may kill us all.

"There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible."---Elliot Richardson

We sorely need an attorney general of integrity similar to Mr. Richardson.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0720.html

Excerpt: "It was Mr. Richardson's stand during Watergate when he was Richard M. Nixon's attorney general that was widely lauded as a special moment of integrity and rectitude that secured him a place in the nation's history. President Nixon ordered Mr. Richardson to fire Archibald M. Cox, the special Watergate prosecutor, but Mr. Richardson chose to resign instead."

To quote William F. Buckley, there are times "I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence." Also his: "I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said/wrote."

Only the just as truly partisan minds of the GOP in the U.S. Senate are preventing the conviction of Mr. Trump. The jokes and zero credibility accusations are as easily attributable to the McConnell minions.

The worst crime(s) involved within this entire fiasco is the almost blind partisanship of both parties.

To quote William F. Buckley, there are times "I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence." Also his: "I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said/wrote."

Only the just as truly partisan minds of the GOP in the U.S. Senate are preventing the conviction of Mr. Trump. The jokes and zero credibility accusations are as easily attributable to the McConnell minions.

The worst crime(s) involved within this entire fiasco is the almost blind partisanship of both parties.

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"The worst crime(s) involved within this entire fiasco is the almost blind partisanship of both parties."

Again William Buckly does not exist anymore. Gone in 2008. He editorialized and enunciated conservatism of the National Review. A conservative thinker at that time. But events during that time, he was present, have changed drastically. Since 2009, society and communities have been radicalized that deviate from the common and natural decency and culture of America that has turned to radicalism. The moral degradation of it has been due to the advent of various cultures affecting majority of the people now being blind folded to delusions of radical socialism.

William Buckly if alive today, might have said differently as before. RIP Mr. Buckly!