In theory, if this wasn’t troubling, we would be inclined not to care: But why was the U.S. secret services wasting their time spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who — on the face of it — isn’t the most immediate danger threatening the United States? Was there nothing better to do? Was nothing more urgent and more obviously terror-related? That being said, there is the revelation of the scope of the systematic spying by the United States on allies and enemies, leaders and ordinary citizens — material to be outraged about, but also a call to come back to reality.
Such is the veritable shock of the successive revelations on the Americans’ practices through the NSA. This organism suddenly seems disconnected from political power, out of control, practicing its know-how without anything more than the amount of technology of a sorcerer’s apprentice at its disposal. It’s like a machine that has escaped its creator and has gone crazy when there are no longer any clear and consistent objectives, seeing its life outside [the confines of] close supervision or accountability. Who controls American spying today? Obviously it’s not U.S. President Barack Obama. And that is, undoubtedly, unacceptable and truly worrying.
With his reliance on naked power and rejection of all constraints on his authority, Trump represents the opposite of everything that made the U.S. great.
Trump behaves like a child who goes trick-or-treating at Halloween. People, including the Norwegian prime minister, don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
In accepting the 'big lie' theory, the Republicans risk losing their political soul by becoming nothing more than representatives of the biased totalitarian ideology of Trumpism.