The supporters of Donald Trump have a lot to say about him. Much of it is mystifying–
Kayleigh McEnany:
“And the lesson is this: Maybe Trump is not trying to take Gaza. Maybe this is a grand part of a negotiation to get Iran to come to the table, to get Iran to hold back the proxies, to get Iran to stop its nuclear warfare on the world. Maybe that’s it,” she concluded. “My lesson to the media, this one line I wish they would take: President Trump is playing four dimensional chess, you all are playing checkers.
Internet Comment:
The Other Owen, Feb 26 2025
>Trump seems to be dismantling the American Empire and alienating US allies
“That empire will get dismantled with or without him. In some ways, they’re in a desperate race to throw as much ballast overboard before the balloon hits the ground. They don’t really want to publicize this, might spook the herd into doing things. But it’s a choice between hit the ground and have everything in the basket splatter all over the place (the Harris option) or start throwing things over the side and have them splatter while possibly saving the basket (the Trump option). I’m in favor of doing something over nothing. Might not matter but I’d rather see them at least try.
They don’t have time to do this the nice way, and at this point all the choices they have are bad. Glad it’s not my job.”
These comments, and many more like them, imply that Donald Trump is a grand master statesman and strategist with a well-defined plan to benefit the future of the United States.
Trump has a large following outside the United States too– There is a manufacturer of statues in China who sells statues of Donald Trump in a contemplative position, like a buddha.
By contrast, his business history is checkered at best. He has been bankrupt several times. He had a long history in New York of hiring contractors and not paying them after the work was completed. He managed to go bankrupt running a casino. In public speaking, Donald Trump lies frequently and displays ignorance of basic facts on the topics he tries to discuss.
Why then, is he the US President? And why re-elected?
It’s possible to look at this in the framework of Jungian Psychiatry.
Jung’s theory says that all humans share a ‘collective unconscious.’ It’s not just filled with all of our suppressed memories– There are Archetypes that swim around in that vast dark ocean, sometimes coming near to the surface and interacting with us. And sometimes, people get taken over by an Archetype.
It all reminds me of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ in the book and movie of the same name. Deep in his heart, the Wizard knows he is only A Humbug– he’s faking it– but circumstances put him at the heart of the Emerald City, and really, what option did he have, but to play the part of the “Great and Powerful Wizard?”
The Wizard of Oz is selfish and cowardly. When Dorothy shows up to request a service that any Oz Wizard should be able to do, he sends her and her companions off to be killed by the Wicked Witch of the West so they won’t give away his game.
And yet, against all odds, Dorothy and company defeat the Wicked Witch and bring back her broomstick, as the Flim-Flam Wizard demanded.
A Jungian would say that the Wizard Archetype had taken over the Flim-Flam Wizard from Omaha, and used him for the Archetype’s own purposes. The Archetype removes the Wicked Witch of the West, to the great benefit of all of Oz.
Does any of this benefit the fake Wizard? No. Even after admitting to being a humbug at the end, the Wizard still tries to bedazzle Dorothy and her friends with meaningless gifts. The one resource he actually has is his hot air balloon, and he bungles even this offer to rescue Dorothy, removing only himself.
Do the Oz-ites notice this? No. They remain clueless throughout.
Donald Trump IS our Wizard of Oz. He was swept into the US Presidency twice by forces he doesn’t understand. If it were even possible to find out what is in the depths of his heart, I think we would find the miserable, driven child that his father made him, and the certain knowledge that he is a loser who doesn’t now know, and never has known, what he is doing.
Who is the Archetype? I can’t be sure, but if I had to guess, I’d say it is ‘Coyote–The Changer’ as described in the legends of the Pacific Northwest;
In the myth, Coyote the Changer goes through the land to change it, so that humans can live in it. But the large animals he encounters are not happy. For example, one says, “When Changer comes to me, I will kill him by beating his head with this board!” But Coyote seizes the board. “Because you wanted to kill me with a board to the head, I will attach it to your rear-end. You will slap the mud and water from now on, and I will name you Beaver.”
Coyote meets many who oppose him, and changes all of them permanently as he goes unstoppably on his way.
We don’t know why, but the Changer Archetype has taken over Donald Trump, and is using this buffoon to accomplish his Changer goals. Like the Wizard at the heart of the Emerald City, Donald has been carried to Washington DC again by the tornadic forces of the Changer Archetype. He is surrounded by people projecting their hopes, dreams, and plans onto him. Asians are burning incense to statues of his likeness. The intense rush of all of this energy has taken away any free will, competence, or goals that he may have once had, and made him the marionette of the Changer.
Does Donald himself know or care that the US can’t sustain its empire, and must disengage to save something of the United States? IMHO, no he doesn’t. Anyone who thinks he is operating on a long-term, well-thought-out plan for the US is only picking up the projections of the Archetype.
Now, this doesn’t mean that the accidental actions of Donald to get us out of foreign entanglements won’t eventually benefit the US. Perhaps everything that Donald is setting in motion will eventually benefit someone– I’m only saying that the Archetype is on the move, and Donald personally has little to do with it.
If an archetype is involved, it may not be possible to defeat Donald until the archetype is done with him. This has been the experience of others who were taken over by Archetypes;
The obvious example is, of course, Adolf Hitler.
Hitler was a soldier in World War I, and would walk above the trench lines with bullets going all around him. He survived a well-planned attempt to blow him up with a bomb planted by his own high-ranking officers. Maybe all of this wasn't just luck.
Karl Jung identified the Wotan Archetype as using Adolf Hitler to wage the greatest war ever known, laying waste to Europe before it was done. Before it was obviously Hitler, Jung noticed the rise of the Archetype, and wrote about it in his essay “Wotan” in 1936;
https://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/essay-on-wotan-w-nietzsche-c-g-jung/
We could argue that both Elvis Presley and the Beatles were carried along by a Rock and Roll Archetype, changing the music industry. How mystifying it was to see their early concerts, filled with young people in complete frenzy! Their music, especially the early stuff, was not that good.
Doubt it? Listen to early Beatles or Elvis tunes. Really, there’s nothing there to drive packed audiences of young people to fits of weeping, orgasmic screaming.
Internet Philosopher Patrick Posits;( https://www.ecosophia.net/february-2025-open-post/ )
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March 4, 2025 at 2:24 pm
“This makes sense, and implies that the Archetypes influence the minds of the populace to get the effects they intend.
“The people of Oz didn’t realize the Wizard was a fraud partly because the Great & Powerful Wizard archetype needs them to believe the Wizard is great and powerful…even if they must ignore minor slipups.
“The MAGA Trump cult & its TDS inverse both continue to be strong because the Changer needs the managerial class to hate Trump and other sectors of the population to support him.”
Whether it is Coyote-The Changer or another Archetype, that Archetype is plainly not done with Donald Trump. What does the Changer want? I guess we’ll have to wait to find out. You can pity Donald Trump if this is true– Be hopeful that you are never taken by an Archetype. It usually doesn’t end well for the person so chosen.
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