#politics
Trump is reminding me of Hitler's last days. Hitler went from fervently believing that Germany could still win, even when the Allies were closing in from east and west, to believing that in defeat Germany would find a cleansing ordeal from which it would rise again, like a phoenix. His suicide would be part of that Romantic, even Wagnerian, narrative.
Not that Donald will take it that far; he doesn't have the Russian Army closing in on him.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/21/trump-election-giuliani-sidney-blumenthal