Sorry to put Cheetos Hitler on your timeline, but this is important.
Almost four years ago — in September 2020 — when I reviewed the incredibly essential documentary #Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump, I wrote:
I know it’s a pipe dream, but I wish that every American would see this movie before Election Day. Anti-Trumpers might not need any more convincing to vote against him, but it’s still absolutely worth getting an in-depth understanding of precisely why Trump is such a threat to the entire world, not just the United States. (It’s not merely that we feel he is dangerous. There is solid scientific and medical evidence that he is.) And pro-Trumpers desperately need to appreciate that he does not give the tiniest shit about his voters, because he is incapable of caring about them. Trump supporters need to understand that he will never do anything that will benefit them, that he is using them for his own ends.
This remains true, in another election year, with Trump running again while not only a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist but also very clearly in the advanced stages of some sort of dementia. That’s on top of the diagnosis of malignant narcissism that a panoply of mental-health professionals confidently made in this film, which already renders him utterly unsuited to serve as president of the United States. Which anyone not cultishly deluded plainly saw during his previous four years in the White House.
He may longer be able to string a few words together to form a single coherent sentence, but he’s always been a monster. And now that he’s been cornered by the justice system and humiliated in public, he’ll be even more dangerous than ever. (Here’s a recent interview with John Gartner, one of the mental-health professionals who appears in #Unfit, about Trump’s recent — and terrifying — cognitive decline.)
I don’t usually underscore the streaming info I mention, but — again — this is important. #Unfit is free to stream for Prime members in the US and the UK, and is a very cheap rental in the US (99 cents) if you aren’t a member. It’s also cheap — 99 cents/99 pence — on Apple TV transatlantically. The film is also on Kanopy, a streaming service available free to anyone in the US with a library card. You have a library card, don’t you?
US: stream on Prime and Kanopy; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
UK: stream on Prime; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
See #Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump at Letterboxd for more viewing options, including in all other global regions.
The problem with people who are enthralled by Trump is that they will never willingly step outside their bubble. They are so enshrined in that bubble and have surrounded themselves with others who have the same mindset as they have, that they will never hear or want to hear anything against their Glorious Leader.
The only way out for those people is to be personally betrayed by the Glorious Leader, so that they come to realize that they are not what they have been pretending to be all this time.
So while this documentary undoubtedly shows that Donald Trump is dangerous, they will never accept that until it is too late. Only people who are on the fence with regards to Donald Trump, or who have pierced through the BS will take the message in this documentary to heart.
I’ll see if it is also available on Prime here in The Netherlands, but I don’t think I will learn anything new about the danger that Donald Trump represents beyond what I already know. But I might be surprised.
Yes, I suspect you are correct. But — shockingly — there do seem to be people who are still on the fence regarding Trump. Maybe we can reach enough of them to make a difference.