Alexander the Not So Great

 

     The DSM-V, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of mental disorders, may well prove to be the biography of the entire right wing movement, especially MAGA. If you turn to any page in the DSM-V, you will see something disturbingly familiar. Schizophrenia, manic depression, paranoia, persecution complex, sociopathy, pedophilia and pederasty, you name it. You'd be very hard-pressed to find any category that doesn't represent at least one right winger you know. 

     Ali Alexander could occupy a whole section all by himself. He's essentially a one man psychological sideshow and psychiatrists from all over the country could send their kids to Ivy League schools by exclusively studying this guy. About the only good thing he has going for him is an unfortunate resemblance to Sammy Davis, Jr.

      So, it only tracks that a mentally disturbed individual like Alexander would throw in his lot with the likes of Donald Trump, who could publish his personal edition of the DSM-V as he's done with the King James Bible. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that.

     Alexander, you might remember, two years ago admitted to soliciting nude photographs from underage boys and sexually harassed others. He vowed to retreat from public life but, like everything else that comes out of Alexander's mouth, that was a lie. All he did was re-platform himself on Telegram, that right wing domain that could make a city sewer look like a class 10,000 clean room by comparison.

     And Alexander had a suggestion for Donald Trump on a live stream:

     "My attention is going to be on trying to get Kash Patel fired, trying to get Donald Trump off his fat ass to avenge his friend, trying to use state power to tell civil libertarians to shut up while we excise all of antifa from our country. I think 500,000 people need to be arrested, tried, and possibly killed if they're convicted for treason or something like that. I think America needs a penal colony. I do not want to coexist with these people."

     Setting aside the irony it's mutual that we don't want to coexist with an antisemitic child molester and armchair genocide artist, what Alexander's calling for, and how he's calling for it, sets him apart somewhat from the bilge ejaculated by the MAGA elite since Charlie Kirk was killed.

     He's literally asking Trump to round up, detain, prosecute and possibly execute a half a million Americans, which is nearly the population of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

     It's impossible to see how Alexander thinks the US government could execute half a million of Americans over a murder carried out by one person or how even Trump thinks he could get away with it. They already think they're in a life or death civil war with liberals. How would murdering half a million innocent Americans not bring such a civil war about? Does he really think even Pam Bondi's DOJ could successfully get half a million federal capital murder convictions that would stand up on appeal?

     Or is Alexander thinking more like extrajudicial executions? Trump couldn't even get his supporters to go to the New York courthouses when he was facing one civil or criminal trial after another. Does he think he has the power to dispatch a nation-wide army of MK Ultra assassins who would have the magical ability to immediately determine who's a liberal or not?

     But it was how Alexander couched his demand that also deserves attention. Not only is he making an unreasonable demand that alone ought to be a criminal act, but he says, "... trying to get Donald Trump off his fat ass to avenge his friend."

     Now, I'm not going to feign outrage over Alexander's disrespect toward the office of the presidency because, 1, Trump deserves no respect and 2, I never believed nor will ever believe that he ever was the president. But that phrase, " trying to get Donald Trump off his fat ass" shows the blatant disrespect and even contempt that he actually feels toward Trump.

      As I keep saying, it's in the nature of right wingers to eventually turn on each other. Just read about the final days and weeks in the Berlin bunker for an illustration of that. But I've also found myself saying over the years that MAGA sees Trump as a vessel to enact their own sick agenda.

     Contrary to popular belief, MAGA isn't entirely made up of paranoid, hind leg-chewing morons. Like Putin, they know a useful idiot when they see one. And when they don't get what they want from him, when they want it and how they want it, they have no problem with letting him know in no uncertain terms. Alexander just proved it.