I have been a bit
unfair to Donald Trump in some of my recent mailings, downgrading the
importance of his personal role in the election. The fact is that without Trump there is
unlikely to have been an upheaval against the liberal establishment. It was Trump who gave the silent opposition
to liberalism permission to speak.
Carl Jung said of Adolf
Hitler: ‘He is the first man to tell every German what he [the German] has been
thinking and feeling all along in his unconscious . . .’
Nor am I comparing
Trump to Hitler—I am using the quotation by way of analogy.
It was Trump who uniquely
allowed/inspired the unexpressed resentments and anger of the average American to
rise to expression after years of being repressed under a rampant political
correctness.
Speaking of Hitler’s
gift in this regard, Jung also described it as being ‘not political; it is magic’.
Now I’m not at all
suggesting that Trump is a magician.
Anything but!
