Gestures of servility from administration members and world leaders alike are sickeningly common in the mad king\u2019s court<\/p>\n
Sycophancy is the coin of the realm. In Donald Trump\u2019s court, flattery is the only spoken language. He does not need an executive order to enforce it. Fear is the other side of the coin. Loyalty must be blind. Obedience is safety. Cronyism secures status. His whim is dogma. Criticism is heresy. Debate is apostasy. Expertise is bias. Objectivity is a hoax. Truth is just your opinion. Lies are defended to the death as articles of faith. New ones are manufactured on an industrial scale by his press office for social influencers to spread. Denying facts proves fealty. The rule of law is partisan. Russia is our trusted ally. Britain and France are \u201crandom counties\u201d. Retribution is policy.<\/p>\n
The deeper the submission to madness, the greater his supremacy. The subjugation is more thorough if the things people are forced to accept are irrational or, better, the reverse of what they had believed. When previously held beliefs are abandoned to conform to their opposite, like the secretary of state Marco Rubio\u2019s formerly adamant support of Ukraine, which went to his core as the son of refugees from Castro\u2019s Cuba, the more Trump\u2019s dominance is demonstrated. Rubio has gone full circle, from his family fleeing one kind of tyranny to Trump sneering at him as \u201cLittle Marco\u201d to ambitious embrace of his tormentor. He finds himself as a supplicant to Trump complaining about Elon Musk\u2019s mindless wreckage of the state department. Formally the ranking constitutional officer of the cabinet, Rubio is below Musk in Trump\u2019s hierarchy.<\/p>\n
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