Yes, Master

I don't want to make too much of it, but Trump is Darth Vader or some kind of dark lord. I've heard that in journalism the rule is to personalize a big story and universalize a small one.

It makes sense to try to provide a perspective at both the empathetic, or personal, and abstract levels. Trump blows through this with appeals to emotion and identification but we'll bring him back to ground. Identification, after all, is not understanding. The Star Wars model might help us to figure out Trump's rise, a stunning democratic malfunction.

I mean, who votes for Vader? 

At a personal level Trump is Vaderesque. Anyone not identified with him is a loser and fair game for obliteration. It's a no-tolerance zone and very binary. The world is divided into two parts, Donald and the losers. In order not to be a loser you have to be in harmony with him and subservient. This is epic grandiosity. Those in harmony can share in his power and glory.

At a universal, abstract level Trump is every villain seeking world domination, an imperative and an insatiable need. Vader seems to be an arch villain but he's a henchman. In reality he's taking it up the ass upstairs. What about Trump? I think he is an aboriginally psychotic entity. His demons are within him. His grandiosity is confoundingly immense and revealing.

Trump appears to be the dog and the rest of us the tail, in his mind. If he were to fail as a president it wouldn't bother him. We would be another casino that didn't make it. So what. And he is a birther in multiple ways. Racists and birthers believe that they are better by dispensation out of the womb, fuck-all. Behavior doesn't matter. They are superior by birth.

This means that Trump is a galactic garbage-fart. We are incapable of seeing it because he is one of us. We have identified too often and easily with the heroes in our stories and we are blind to the villains and demons among us because that kind of evil is alien by definition. Oh, but it isn't. And Trump wants us to bet on him. Really, to bet ourselves on him.

Let's not go there.

If it doesn't work out he will blame someone else and walk away. At a personal level Trump is easy to understand. He's a big baby wanting the tit that never goes away, so he's aggressive out of dependency. He hasn't a conscience at all. He's a Vader-baby, a hideous little HoHo with breathing problems. Anyhow, lacking a conscience is not inconsequential.

A conscience is a terrible thing not to have and adults are supposed to have one. Now, just in case he should win, repeat after me: "Yes, Master." We'll want to be on his good side. I don't want no Darth chasing my ass around. Yes, Master. Yes, Master...