The "liberal groups" pretense of a petty, malicious, vengeful, ignorant sociopath

Here we go, Trump's "Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups," as The NY Times debuted it, a depraved, mendacity-infused inescapability as preordained as Adolf's persecutions and Uncle Joe's purges, though in a way, the Soviet goon was less corrupt than Donald. At least his suspicion of perceived enemies, however paranoid, was genuine. Trump's, of liberals, is entirely counterfeit.

That being the truth of a fraud which Trump is also entirely aware of. And he's been aware of it since his first four-year blight.

In September 2020, his FBI director, Christopher Wray, acknowledged that "violent extremism” from white supremacists accounted for most of America's terrorism threats, and they've "carried out the most lethal attacks." An earlier Homeland Security Department report — suppressed by the White House — agreed, saying white supremacists "will remain the most persistent and lethal threat" in the near future.

But Trump's go-to fraudulence is always to go big, which explains his over-the-top, almost laughable pronunciamento of last week: "When you look at the problem [of political violence], the problem is on the left. It’s not on the right." (The latter, he reflected, do on occasion commit rather unsavory acts, but only because they "don't want to see crime" — as affirmed, one gathers, by right-wing extremists' "lethal attacks.")

In agreement with Wray, Homeland Security and reality, however, is, for one, Celinet Duran of the State University of New York-Oswego, who studied 1990 to 2020's political violence. What she found were "far more frequent and deadly attacks by the hard-right than the hard-left." Another study, reaching back to 2015, found that more than three-fourths of "extremist-related murders" from then to the present "were committed by those on the right."

Most recently, the Cato Institute compiled a massive load of data on political killings — classified as acts of terrorism — spanning from 1 January 1975 to 10 September 2025. The results: "Left wingers murdered 65 people" as right-wing murders were mounting to 391, more than six times that of the left's.

Yesterday, the mom-and-apple-pie Führer-in-waiting piled on to Trump's heap of lies. Although JD is better suited for Wall Street scams or Madison Avenue fables, he solemnly addressed what he called a "statistical fact" of politics. "If both sides have a problem, one side has a much bigger and malignant problem, and that is the truth we must be told."

Quite aside from his revisionist sizing, Vance's final clause was a curious construction. He spoke not of a truth that exists independently as a truth, but one that "we," or they, presumably the American people, must be told. The phrasing has a Goebbelsesque ring to it — an unbridled falsehood in service to the teller's overriding political urgency which must be imposed on the American people.

But back to Boss Trump. Even if he was right about the left's networked link to violence justifying a "crackdown," what explains his replicated carpet bombing of all Democrats, apostate Republicans, Never Trumpers, former friends, merely disaffected allies, assorted law firms, elite universities, the press and holders of a broadcast license? Was each somehow involved in targeting misnomered "conservatives" with violence?

What also explains his sacking of government officials only doing their jobs, such as former BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer, or his hammering of Fed Governor Lisa Cook, or his stripping the security detail from Anthony Fauci? — he but one in a long line of high-ranking ex-officials "to see their federal protection canceled despite ongoing threats to their lives." (Trump has said "he wouldn't feel any responsibility if harm befell" any one of them.)

And just what in hell could possibly explain his cracking down on federal funding of America's "extraordinarily successful scientific research system, one that took decades to build" and is "being dismantled before our eyes."

The explanations are bundled but singular in essence. Donald Trump is a petty, malicious, vengeful, ignorant sociopath demanding untrammeled power with which he can execute his sociopathic ignorance in the pettiest, most malicious and vengeful ways. He's a disease, a national as well as global pathology; a transmissible pathogen deeply resentful of gifted success, wickedly envious of true intellect, and thus in possession of a bloated ego compensating for his bumbling failures and primitive brain.

In short, what he calls his innocent victims, Trump is the real thing: shifty, degenerate, psycho, a low-IQ sleazebag, and his most stinging projection, a loser.

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