Narcotic

Let's be canonical and turn to the dictionary, the usual and helpful source for any lazy columnist: a narcotic substance is one that alters sensitivity and can produce stimulating, depressing, narcotic or hallucinogenic effects. That it also creates addiction is a moral value judgment that rounds out the definition.

Of course, narcotics, meaning opioids and the like, put us in a state of stupefaction and leave us stupefied, that is, stunned, amazed and, if we look at their Latin etymon, paralyzed or at least stunned. Stupere means to be paralyzed or stunned, and from there we get the words stupid and stupor.

Donald Trump has a hypnotic effect that paralyzes us and attracts us

I have no better adjective for what this first month of Trump's return to power and the White House has meant to me personally. Stupefying. And I myself recognize that I am as stupefied as I am stupid. Review the definition and you will see that the forty-seventh president of the United States alters sensitivity and causes stimulating or depressing effects or both, and of course hallucinogenic. And of course it is addictive, since it is already impossible not to start the day without wondering what he has done or said while we were sleeping in Europe.

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He has us all figured out and with his thick, hyperbolic strokes he writes a parallel reality that at times seems to be the product of some undesirable ingestion. Between despising him for being crazy and admiring his self-proclaimed negotiating cunning, there is a wide range of feelings and moods. Truly, and with Putin's permission, he has become the emperor of the planet. And yes, he has a hypnotic effect that paralyzes us and attracts us, in a very similar way to how evil, hatred and ignorance grow on social networks.

He has announced a fight to the death against the cartels and against drugs, but he himself is a lysergic dose of a reality that seems invented to us because of so much nonsense and so much accumulated lies and fabrication.

Yes, Trump is a psychedelic and dissociative drug, with obvious effects on our mood, health and safety.

It is well known that drugs alter reality. What we did not imagine was that they could create a reality. And this has only just begun. There are four long, eternal years left. And they will be, I fear, narcotics.