A Watershed Period in U.S. History
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.
Here’s a woman dancing for joy that RFK Jr. is owning the libs.
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.
Answer to the question posed here: High concentration of undocumented people. Rounding them up is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Here’s a good example of how Trump can say anything he wants, regardless of how patently false, and his supporters accept it uncritically.
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.
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.”
We wouldn’t have had Donald Trump in the first place if McConnell hadn’t treated Democrats with gross unfairness.
