Trump Is Not Good, But Misguided—He Is Evil Because He Is Misguided
- john raymond
- Jul 20
- 4 min read
There’s a generous lie still whispered in American politics, still clung to in corners of media commentary and centrist delusion: that Donald Trump is not fundamentally bad—just misled. That he is a flawed patriot, guided by warped instincts or poor advisors. That deep down, he might mean well for America, but is trapped inside a hall of mirrors reflecting bad judgment.
This lie must be buried. Buried. Buried. Buried.
Donald Trump is not good, but misguided. He is evil because he is misguided. The very nature of his worldview, his broken moral compass, and his psychological disorders make him the perfect enemy of democratic society—not despite of his intentions, but because of them. There is no inner moral self waiting to be corrected. There is no principled misunderstanding waiting to be reoriented. There is no salvageable soul.
A Philosophy of Power Without Morality
Trump’s guiding philosophy is not political—it is pathological. He believes in one fundamental law: the strong rule, and the weak exist to be ruled. He respects nothing but dominance. He admires wealth, violence, and charisma. He loathes humility, empathy, and cooperation—traits he sees as forms of surrender. His conception of power is pre-modern, tribal, and zero-sum. There is no common good.
There is only winning and losing, master and slave, Trump and not-Trump.
This is not merely toxic masculinity or egotism. It is a Nietzschean nihilism filtered through decades of narcissistic entitlement and emotional rot. Trump is incapable of viewing others—citizens, allies, nations—as equals or partners. They are only useful if they serve him, or contemptible if they don’t.
The Perfect KGB Asset
This is what made Trump the perfect long-term target for Russian intelligence. Not because he was ideologically sympathetic to the Soviet Union or Putinism. But because he was emotionally empty, morally compromised, and pathologically self-interested. The KGB and its successor, the FSB, seem to understand human weakness better than any Western intelligence agency. They knew Trump was not a man to be persuaded—he was a man to be used.
Trump did not need to be flipped. He had no real country to betray—only a self to aggrandize. All that remained was to flatter him, reward him, and ensure that every humiliation he experienced from Western elites was contrasted by indulgence from the Kremlin. Trump didn’t choose Russia over America. He chose himself. Russia merely ensured that this choice always favored them.
To the FSB, Trump is not just a puppet. He is a chaotic weapon—a firehose of confusion, narcissism, and sabotage aimed directly at the systems Russia fears: NATO, the EU, democratic resilience, multilateral legitimacy.
There Is No "Good Man Misled" Inside Trump
This must be understood deeply: there is no inner child, no principled dissenter, no tragic hero inside Donald Trump. Whatever he was at ten, at twenty, even at forty—has long been consumed by decades of grievance, pathology, and self-idolatry. His every instinct is to dominate, to humiliate, to punish. His joy is the joy of inflicting pain on those who cannot strike back. His ideology is the aesthetic of cruelty.
To imagine Trump as a man who simply misunderstood his role or intentions is to mistake a poison for a medicine gone stale. He is not corrupted goodness—he is the evolution of self-serving emptiness into strategic evil. A vacuum that pulls the worst out of others in order to reflect his own hollowness as greatness.
Like Putin, He Believes in Masters and Slaves
Trump and Putin are twin reflections of the same moral void. Both despise the weak—not because they pose a threat, but because their existence offends the natural order of strength. Both admire those who are strong, especially if they can never be fully conquered, but resent the humiliation that strength imposes upon them. Hence Trump’s obsession with military parades, gold trim, and “strong men” like Xi, Kim, and Putin himself. He does not love them. He fears and envies them. But more than anything, he wants to be them.
This is not conservative thought. This is not populism. This is pure authoritarian nihilism—a worldview that seeks to flatten every institution, tradition, and truth that doesn’t serve the supreme ego. It is why Trump undermines elections, attacks the press, and mocks veterans and the disabled. Because their existence proves the limits of his control, and so their dignity must be destroyed.
The Lie of Misguidance Is a Shield for Evil
Those who continue to frame Trump as “misguided” grant him the shield of innocence. But misguidedness is forgivable when tethered to good intentions. Trump has none. His entire political project is the destruction of mutual obligation, the severing of the social contract, and the conversion of democracy into a loyalty cult.
He is not misunderstood. He is well understood. And what is understood is horrifying.
To name evil correctly is not hysteria—it is moral clarity.
To misname evil as confusion is not nuance—it is complicity.
Trump Is a Nihilist Leading a Cult of National Suicide
Trump is not America’s mistake. He is America’s test. And the test is this: Can we recognize an enemy of the republic when he wears the flag?
Trump is not just misguided. He is the embodiment of a deadly misguidance—one that weaponizes personal grievance into national destruction.
If there ever was once an innocent soul inside Donald John Trump, that soul is gone. What remains is the master-slave logic of a man who sees others only in terms of how they serve him—or how they can be broken.
The West must stop treating him as a citizen confused about policy. He is a hostile force, intellectually captured, emotionally corrupted, and strategically deployed by adversaries of the free world.
He is not a good man gone wrong. No. He is but the cruelty of evil made efficient.
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