Trump is the living embodiment of that contradictory desire for redemption and destruction. His incoherent speeches wander back and forth between those two poles, from infantile fantasies about forcing Mexico to build an $8 billion wall and rampant anti-Muslim paranoia to unfocused panegyrics about how "great" we will be one day and how much we will "win." In his abundant vigor and ebullience and cloddish, mean-spirited good humor, Trump may seem like the opposite of the death wish. (He would certainly be insulted by any such suggestion. Wrong! Bad!) But everything he promises is impossible, and his supporters are not quite dumb enough not to see that. He's a death's-head jester cackling on the edge of the void, the clownish host of one last celebration of America's bombast, bigotry and spectacular ignorance. No wonder his voters are reluctant to 'fess up.
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