At left is another example of a trend within American society that will either:
1) Remain indefinitely, and expand to become an even more vicious force on our society than it already is, or
2) Retreat to a point that it has practically no bearing on our lives.
I’m betting on #2; I think the dissolution of Trumpism will, by definition, mean a return to sanity and reason.
Re: the second Trump presidency, one of two things is going to happen; it’s hard to imagine any real middle-ground:
1) Trump will ultimately fail in his bid to take over the United States government, and to rewrite its history. Tidbits of what we now call “Trumpism” may remain, e.g., the White Nationalism, but they lay just beneath the surface anyway, even before Trump came on the political scene in 2015. In any case, the vast majority of Americans will remember the horrific events of January 6th, how Trump watched them as they unfolded from a television in the White House for more than three hours, before he realized that his insurrectionists were not going to succeed, and finally made a move to stop them.
2) Trump will ultimately succeed in transforming the United States into a post-truth, autocratic nation.
I’m betting #1. Even as disgusting as our current events may be, it’s still hard to believe that one sociopathic criminal can bring down something as vast as the United States of America.
Many of Trump’s supporters, whether they’re in farming or some sort of small business, are realizing to their bitter disappoint that the economic policies that their leader has put into place are driving them into bankruptcy.
I’m not a political advisor, but I don’t think this bodes well for the president.
Here’s a woman dancing for joy that RFK Jr. is owning the libs.
It’s true that some people, myself included, would rather take health instructions from scientists rather than a recovering heroin addict whose brains have been eaten by worms, and we’re chagrinned that our country’s citizens are under the medical care of a total crackpot.
The problem for our nation’s morons is that owning the libs means degrading our nation and the safety and well-being of its people across the board, regardless of their political persuasion. Here, that means ignoring health science that has virtually eliminated dozens of dread diseases. In other scientific arenas, it means baking our planet, and all the accompanying dangers: floods, droughts, wildfires, loss of land mass, etc.
We are all on the same planet, dealing with the same contagious diseases, and the same catastrophic storms. “Owning” those who think differently seems a bit childish, doesn’t it?
I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve written, “Americans may be stupid, but we’re not that stupid. There’s limit here.” Having been so clearly wrong many dozens of times, I know how dull-witted I sound when I say that I agree with Dr. Tribe here and his assertion that there are finite number of “last straws” before the United States expels Donald Trump from political life.
From a reader: Chicago had one of its biggest protests ever, with thousands hitting the streets to stand up against the regime, DHS, ICE & Trump’s war on the American people. History is being made in the streets.
During Trump’s first term, the top echelon of the U.S. military–dozens of our highest-ranking generals and admirals–saw through Trump and realized that represented a huge threat to American democracy; most of them made their thoughts completely clear to the American public.
All this set the stage for a showdown. If Trump is to remain in power, he’ll need the backing of our troops to make it happen.
Many people think that Trump’s war on Democrat-controlled cities is just a warm-up for what is to come.
Answer to the question posed here: High concentration of undocumented people. Rounding them up is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Of course, virtually none are criminals, and all are (or at least were) paying taxes and contributing to the economy.
Here’s a good example of how Trump can say anything he wants, regardless of how patently false, and his supporters accept it uncritically.
Wind accounts for about 15% of all electricity generation in the United States, which, because it largely offsets the consumption of coal, is making our country healthier while contributing to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
I just caught a TV news segment on the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate wind energy from our grid mix. It’s possible that the reason behind this is more complicated than it appears, but we all need to take the obvious into consideration: Trump is on the receiving end of uncountable fortunes in gifts from the fossil fuel industry, perhaps in exchange for his destroying the competition.
From this segment, he appears to have convinced tens of millions of his supporters that wind turbines “don’t work,” that they are a blight on our landscape, and they have no place in replacing coal. They appear not to understand that:
Wind energy runs about 15% of the overall grid-mix in the United States, and in some of the plains states, this figure is frequently north of 70%.
Wind largely offsets the burning of coal, which emits huge amounts of greenhouse gases, heavy metals like mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and selenium, as well as dozens of different highly toxic radioactive isotopes.
Of course, we’re talking to an audience that largely believes that climate change is a hoax, and God only knows what they believe about human health. Maybe mercury is kind of like a vitamin? No one knows. Let’s ask RFK Jr.
What public intellectual and science fiction giant Isaac Asimov said here has been the subject of a great deal of discussion over the years. It’s what virtually everyone who’s seen the Earth from space says, i.e., “There are no borders.”
Yet, as our planet’s capacity to support life continues to slip away from us, we seem to be no closer to realizing this aim.
