Destroy the Country

The village is bigger now, and the fire is televised.

There’s a familiar logic at work — brutal, absurd, and somehow still effective. The same logic once used to justify flattening villages in Vietnam now drives a political movement at home:
If something doesn’t obey, destroy it. Then say you’re saving it.

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In order for trump to “save” the United States, he has to wreck everything he can’t control.
Institutions, norms, facts, history — all must go. If something predates him, contradicts him, or operates without permission, it’s labeled corrupt and fed to the fire.

The United States isn’t broken. That’s the problem. It still has laws that function, agencies that investigate, judges who don’t check Twitter for instructions.
It still has things that work — but not for long. The slow parts are being starved, the honest parts are being smeared, and what’s left is being hollowed out in real time.

So, the mission becomes clear: discredit, dismantle, deny. If it has rules, it’s rigged. If it has facts, they’re fake. If it has power, he wants it — or wants it gone.

This isn’t just ego. It’s an operating system.

• Elections? Only count if he wins.
• The law? Just a menu. He orders à la carte.
• Foreign policy? Who owes him money.
• Loyalty? One-way. Preferably with cash and cable coverage.

And if the chaos happens to align with Russia’s interests? Even better. Undermining NATO, destabilizing Ukraine, hollowing out U.S. intelligence — these aren't missteps. They're deliverables.
If Putin drew up a wish list, trump read it like a to-do list and be employee of the month.

He’s not a president. He’s a demolition contractor with a mission and a fan base. And the crowd? They don’t want solutions. They want scenes. They want to hear it’s all someone else’s fault while the country burns in high definition.

And the more damage he causes, the more essential he becomes. Collapse isn’t a warning. It’s a campaign strategy. The worse things get, the easier it is to sell yourself as the last option standing in the wreckage you made.

This isn’t leadership. It’s crisis inflation.
It’s not about making the United States great — it’s about burning it down and calling the smoke a victory.

So yes — in this worldview, he really does have to destroy the country to save it.
Not from collapse.
From memory.
From accountability.
From ever working properly again.
The village is bigger now. But he’s making fast progress.

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