The problem with "the rule of law" is that when people use the expression they really mean the rule of the laws they approve of. If, say, you don't approve of deportation, then you are free to regard what is technically illegal entry into the US as legitimate. and you're willing to violate that so called-rule of law. Think of the many who broke the law in their opposition to slavery. The only way to assure respect for "the rule of law" is to abide by the laws as such until they are revised or revoked. Many people find this impossible. So as I say, there is no such thing as "the rule of law." It's an empty expression like so many others we use continually in political discourse as a means of persuasion. And that includes "fascist." (as per Orwell).
I think it's also good to remember the election was only two weeks ago, though it feels more like two months. We've moved from one period of anticipatory anxiety into another, where the threat itself is still amorphous but the legitimacy of that threat now feels all but certain to a sizeable chunk of Democratic voters. That sort of ambiguity tends to drive people crazy, so the current level of freakout isn't surprising.
I hope that once he actually takes office and starts giving us something tangible to rail against, the catch-all denouncements will wane. But given that he'll likely continue to say despicable things and lie like a morally vacuous 5 year-old, I'm not holding my breath.
Yup. I'm glad a Republican won (though would have preferred someone besides Trump). His deportation policy ideas are too harsh and I'd settle for just stopping further incoming excess refugees. The tariff ideas are stupendously bad and I hope something prevents him from implementing them.
I think Trump has a good chance of successfully addressing the foreign policy problems (Ukraine war, Israel). And hope that he can stomp hard on woke craziness (transgender insanity, DEI). And i feel like K-12 and universities are such indoctrination factories we need to start over on these. Exaggerating somewhat but not completely.
I do hate his agenda of retribution against his enemies. Let's not degrade into a banana republic despite the fact Democrats weaponized government against Republicans.
The Ukraine War has been great for America—we are actually getting value for our defense spending!! And WTF does America have to do with Israel annihilating Hamas and Hezbollah?? Will Trump allow them to annihilate them more?? WTF??
Can you tell us what exactly you mean by “transgender insanity”? and “DEI”? If it’s not too triggering for you, tell us where the diversity hire or trans person hurt you.
It is so clear as I read your article that you are a man. You have completely disregarded the FACT that Trump and many others in his mob have zero respect for more than half Of the American populace. He is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, and literally scores of women have made accusations in varying degrees of sexual assault by this pig. Additionally, he put three liars into the Supreme Court whose first goal was to strip the right of a woman to make a decision about having a baby! He also tried to overthrow the government with violence. He meets with nazis and women hating jackasses like Nick Fuentes. He has made Elon Musk, another sexual predator, part of his government because he bought his way into it. No sir, I will NEVER look at him or anyone who chooses to support him with anything but contempt and you should be ashamed of yourself as an American for suggesting anything different.
Good luck with that. He won the election. Deal with it. And your comment is deeply sexist. Yes Trump and Rs have set back women's rights. No question. That is far more true at the state level in Texas, Louisiana, etc, and has little to do with Trump per se. And 44% of women, so nearly 35 mlllion voted for Trump. What about them?
Pretty sure we have to assume many of those women have some degree of Stockholm Syndrome going on. They’ll need to address those deep issues with their therapists or marriage counselors.
We’re just trying to figure out how half the country is supposed to now obey a man with a long criminal record as the ‘standard bearer of law.’
Yes I also quickly deduced the author was a man. The name "Zachary" was the first clue. Now while you sound like the type who would name a girl Zachary, that really isn't a thing anywhere else, so I concluded the author was a man.
If you really believe that we should just sit back and wait for something tragic to happen: well, it's happened and happening. The cabinet nominations alone should tell you that:1.He is selecting people according to the Project 2025 playbook--these nominations are people without any experience in the work, or tragically, are so ill equipped to do the work that they will destroy the critical federal structures and agencies. We saw that happen with his cabinet picks from the 1st go-around.
I want people who actually know what they're doing and can effectively manage the agency (think corporation, if you need to). There is yet to be one of these cabinet picks that I would consider hiring for a private enterprise. RFK, Jr couldn't get hired by any environmental agencies, nor does he know anything about health care and its delivery. Gabbard can't keep her mouth shut and she has never worked in Intelligence. I could go on--but you can look at the nominations yourself and figure out if you think any of them should actually be in charge.
So yes, we have a lot to be worried about already. And 'sanewashing' any of these antics is seriously misguided.
Rubio at State, Lutnick at Commerce, Walz as NatSec adviser, those are all perfectly legit nominees. Not who I would have picked, but competent and qualified.
But you realize Trump appointed Haley to make McMaster governor? Trump could be appointing Rubio for a similar reason and undermine him like he did Tillerson.
Well done Zach. As President Biden said on November 7, "“You can’t love your country only when you win. You can’t love your neighbor only when you agree.”
1. As you say, there is a lot about the federal government that the president cannot legally control, by any reasonable interpretation of the law. But why is it so unreasonable to assume, or at least gravely fear, that Trump will likely govern lawlessly and get away with it? After all, he (a) has already committed a bunch of blatant crimes and gotten away with them, (b) has already expressed his intent to do a bunch more blatantly illegal things (like ending birthright citizenship), and (c) has appointed a bunch of judges from SCOTUS on down who have already come up with a bunch of ludicrous rationalizations for why his prior obviously illegal behavior is actually fine, and will likely continue to do so.
2. On immigration, there's mass and then there's mass. ~1M deportations would not be such a huge departure from prior policy. 10-20M deportations absolutely would be, and that's what he and his henchmen have said they want to do. Hopefully they will find that that's infeasible, but again, it's not unreasonable to worry that they'll try and do extraordinary damage by trying.
10 million deportations would require hundreds of billions in spending, massive facilities etc. That's not going to happen without major Congressional action, which seems highly unlikely
Well said. And of course no one is releasing information as to how they will first find all those criminals from Nicaragua and Venezuela to deport first..what proof that will convince a judge they have the right to break into someone's house to do a search for illegal migrants. And they say they will house them at military bases until they can fly them back to some country...are all of our military bases that empty???? If they are going to round up even just a million folks, on day two (since trump will issue the order on day 1) will they have cages already ready for them? Of course the questions are almost endless.
How old are you? Rhetorical. Voters are upset and rightly so. Trump has said over and over again what he intends to do. Don't you believe him? He is truly a fascist with a long terrible history. To mollycoddle him (maybe that is what Mika and Joe thought they were doing) is totally wrong. He is dangerous and will take the US off the world stage. America has succeeded because it includes the world in its purview and not many in the West will be happy to see that go. America First is a terrible slogan. We saved the world in WWII and he will tear it asunder.
He is the elected president in an historical moment of rampant disinformation, foreign interference, and self-selecting media bubbles that diverge radically from anything resembling reality. He is the elected president despite also being found guilty of felonies and liable for sexual abuse. Elected, yes, but patently unfit and underqualified for the position by any imaginable measure. He is a fraud, literally--legally. He has installed others accused of sexual assault in high positions of power and has orchestrated the repeal of a law designed to empower women to make choices about their own bodies and lives, essentially rendering women second-class citizens. All of these things he has already done, and now he returns to power with promises to do worse. I appreciate your "Relax and let's see what happens..." attitude--I really do. My nervous system needs a break. However, you're not showing a lot of empathy for those suffering from what he has already done, particularly in emboldening misogynists, rapists, and abusers--something that affects about 50% of the population, whether they voted to elect him or not.
Regarding immigration, you’ve glaringly omitted the real fact (not a fake one) that Trump had Mike Johnson kill the bipartisan immigration bill last winter.
Are we to ignore or simply forget that a former president was effectively making federal policy while unelected? That policy manipulation by an unelected citizen severely distorted an issue near the top of many voters’ minds and was likely done to keep him out of jail. So forgive us if we can’t do simply turn the page and accept him as our ‘leader.’
True, but what's the functional difference between that and paid lobbyists writing and advocating for or against legislation? For that matter, what's the difference between him advocating for that bill to be killed, and Mike Bloomberg or the Kochs dumping millions into races?
So someone running for POTUS can't take a position on a bill like a paid lobbyist can? That doesn't make any sense. Have you gone through that bill to see what other pork and policy was in there? Because there was $60 on billion wedged in there for Ukraine, and the GOP has become the anti-war party. This wasn't widely reported at the time, and it's still forgotten every time someone tries to cudgel him and his party with the failure of this bill.
What a perfectly rational and intelligent response. Unfortunately, either you or no one else made that same recognition with the mega and super conservative right and the heritage foundation types and the absolute whack job morons who listen to talk, radio and etc. Nobody made the same pitch with them of 4 years ago when Biden legitimately won with Harris instead the trumpy's the right. They didn't listen to such message that you put forth for us to listen to now. Instead they denied everything. They said it was all fraud. It was all stolen and you know after 4 years it sort of worked for them. So maybe a real lesson is that we should play the same game. Put it all in denial. His election was fraud stolen b******* he needs to die. Be in prison. The whole administration is wrong. Gutless terrible un-American bad. Isn't that really the lesson we're supposed to have learned? I agree with your rational, intelligent and positive perspective, but that doesn't really work in America anymore. Didn't they just prove that?
Here's the problem: the media and the Democrats dug too deep a hole calling Trump a Nazi, fascist etc. during the campaign, and for most of them, their solution is to keep digging. I believe it was all cynical and none of them actually believe he is a fascist.
If they had any moral courage, they would release this statement:
"When we called President Trump a fascist, we were lying. We did it for what we believed to be a greater good, and for our own self-interest, as we expect the rule of the Democrat Party under Kamala Harris to be better for us and those in our profession and our socioeconomic stratum. We did what we could to get her elected, and we couldn't drag her across the finish line.
President Trump is not a fascist. He is a nationalist and populist, which suits a majority of the American populace, if not us. The majority carries the day this time, and we wish you all good fortune and that the betterment of our shared country you are hoping for under Republican government are realized, and that it will be less painful for us than it is pleasant for you. Good luck, America."
Is that so hard? It might hurt for a few minutes, but it will be forgotten and the establishment media may find some redemption, maybe a few more people who trust them. But I predict few if any will do that, and mostly because they face no consequences for throwing words like "fascist" around.
As far as "normalizing Trump," what they have really done is normalize fascism, and similar doctrines covered under that rubric. There are some people, especially young men, who are curious about fascism, Nazism, white supremacy and the like. Some of them find themselves in disadvantageous positions where they can see the appeal. Blue collar white males are at the bottom of the totem pole socially and economically now and these ideologies speak to them, and offer a solution. History shows us that they are unlikely to deliver that solution and that they will not like what they really do deliver, but how do they know that? There was a time when a man who had these feelings would have to crawl to the depths to have them validated, to obscure websites and shadowy basement meetings with scary people, and that would usually be sufficient to hint that they will not find what they are looking for in fascism. But now, according to the establishment media, the President of the United States himself, elected by a majority of the people, is a fellow traveler! What could dignify fascism more than attributing it to our duly elected national leader? That is a bad thing they are doing, and if we ever do have a real and significant fascist movement in the US, blame can be laid at the feet of those who wilfully and cynically mischaracterized fascism as a mainstream ideology shared by President Trump.
You rightly point out what fascism truly means, but unfortunately it's now become, "that which I disagree with". I've never met the man, so I can't say with any certainty what's in his heart, or what his endgame is. I know that I strongly disapprove of much of his venomous rhetoric, and I think he shoots from the hip far, far too often, and that he's got ridiculously thin skin. But on major policy issues, I think there's some real positives there. He's a lifelong Democrat, and the fact that he's taken the GOP into strange territory - saying that there will be no national abortion ban, not wanting to engage in any wars, not being the least anti-gay, and becoming the party of the working class - speaks to his roots.
Sure, the GOP treated Obama horribly. And the Dems treated W horribly. And the GOP treated Clinton horribly. But, "they did it too" is horrible logic.
Trump won. Many of his proposed policies would not have been foreign under either Obama or Clinton. Take a deep breath, relax, and let's see what he actually does now that he's got 4 years of experience at the job and he's not able to run again.
If, and/or when he does something horrible or unconstitutional then call it out. Loudly.
So, a couple of Weimar "opinion journalists" take the knee and kiss the ring and that means we should follow their example? That demonstrates how "reasonable: we can anf should be? Not only that, but we MUST stop thinking about Tr**p in any systematic, coherent way and simply judge each action and policy by its own merits? And just ignore Anne Applebaum, Tim Snyder and Masha Gessen. Or Hannah Arendt. Among the dozens of historians who have actualized through authoritarian take-overs and gone to great pains to warn us. Yeah. That oughta work...
The problem with "the rule of law" is that when people use the expression they really mean the rule of the laws they approve of. If, say, you don't approve of deportation, then you are free to regard what is technically illegal entry into the US as legitimate. and you're willing to violate that so called-rule of law. Think of the many who broke the law in their opposition to slavery. The only way to assure respect for "the rule of law" is to abide by the laws as such until they are revised or revoked. Many people find this impossible. So as I say, there is no such thing as "the rule of law." It's an empty expression like so many others we use continually in political discourse as a means of persuasion. And that includes "fascist." (as per Orwell).
I think it's also good to remember the election was only two weeks ago, though it feels more like two months. We've moved from one period of anticipatory anxiety into another, where the threat itself is still amorphous but the legitimacy of that threat now feels all but certain to a sizeable chunk of Democratic voters. That sort of ambiguity tends to drive people crazy, so the current level of freakout isn't surprising.
I hope that once he actually takes office and starts giving us something tangible to rail against, the catch-all denouncements will wane. But given that he'll likely continue to say despicable things and lie like a morally vacuous 5 year-old, I'm not holding my breath.
Yup. I'm glad a Republican won (though would have preferred someone besides Trump). His deportation policy ideas are too harsh and I'd settle for just stopping further incoming excess refugees. The tariff ideas are stupendously bad and I hope something prevents him from implementing them.
I think Trump has a good chance of successfully addressing the foreign policy problems (Ukraine war, Israel). And hope that he can stomp hard on woke craziness (transgender insanity, DEI). And i feel like K-12 and universities are such indoctrination factories we need to start over on these. Exaggerating somewhat but not completely.
I do hate his agenda of retribution against his enemies. Let's not degrade into a banana republic despite the fact Democrats weaponized government against Republicans.
More centrists are needed.
The Ukraine War has been great for America—we are actually getting value for our defense spending!! And WTF does America have to do with Israel annihilating Hamas and Hezbollah?? Will Trump allow them to annihilate them more?? WTF??
Can you tell us what exactly you mean by “transgender insanity”? and “DEI”? If it’s not too triggering for you, tell us where the diversity hire or trans person hurt you.
It is so clear as I read your article that you are a man. You have completely disregarded the FACT that Trump and many others in his mob have zero respect for more than half Of the American populace. He is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, and literally scores of women have made accusations in varying degrees of sexual assault by this pig. Additionally, he put three liars into the Supreme Court whose first goal was to strip the right of a woman to make a decision about having a baby! He also tried to overthrow the government with violence. He meets with nazis and women hating jackasses like Nick Fuentes. He has made Elon Musk, another sexual predator, part of his government because he bought his way into it. No sir, I will NEVER look at him or anyone who chooses to support him with anything but contempt and you should be ashamed of yourself as an American for suggesting anything different.
Good luck with that. He won the election. Deal with it. And your comment is deeply sexist. Yes Trump and Rs have set back women's rights. No question. That is far more true at the state level in Texas, Louisiana, etc, and has little to do with Trump per se. And 44% of women, so nearly 35 mlllion voted for Trump. What about them?
Pretty sure we have to assume many of those women have some degree of Stockholm Syndrome going on. They’ll need to address those deep issues with their therapists or marriage counselors.
We’re just trying to figure out how half the country is supposed to now obey a man with a long criminal record as the ‘standard bearer of law.’
Yes I also quickly deduced the author was a man. The name "Zachary" was the first clue. Now while you sound like the type who would name a girl Zachary, that really isn't a thing anywhere else, so I concluded the author was a man.
If you really believe that we should just sit back and wait for something tragic to happen: well, it's happened and happening. The cabinet nominations alone should tell you that:1.He is selecting people according to the Project 2025 playbook--these nominations are people without any experience in the work, or tragically, are so ill equipped to do the work that they will destroy the critical federal structures and agencies. We saw that happen with his cabinet picks from the 1st go-around.
I want people who actually know what they're doing and can effectively manage the agency (think corporation, if you need to). There is yet to be one of these cabinet picks that I would consider hiring for a private enterprise. RFK, Jr couldn't get hired by any environmental agencies, nor does he know anything about health care and its delivery. Gabbard can't keep her mouth shut and she has never worked in Intelligence. I could go on--but you can look at the nominations yourself and figure out if you think any of them should actually be in charge.
So yes, we have a lot to be worried about already. And 'sanewashing' any of these antics is seriously misguided.
Rubio at State, Lutnick at Commerce, Walz as NatSec adviser, those are all perfectly legit nominees. Not who I would have picked, but competent and qualified.
But you realize Trump appointed Haley to make McMaster governor? Trump could be appointing Rubio for a similar reason and undermine him like he did Tillerson.
Well done Zach. As President Biden said on November 7, "“You can’t love your country only when you win. You can’t love your neighbor only when you agree.”
Two points here:
1. As you say, there is a lot about the federal government that the president cannot legally control, by any reasonable interpretation of the law. But why is it so unreasonable to assume, or at least gravely fear, that Trump will likely govern lawlessly and get away with it? After all, he (a) has already committed a bunch of blatant crimes and gotten away with them, (b) has already expressed his intent to do a bunch more blatantly illegal things (like ending birthright citizenship), and (c) has appointed a bunch of judges from SCOTUS on down who have already come up with a bunch of ludicrous rationalizations for why his prior obviously illegal behavior is actually fine, and will likely continue to do so.
2. On immigration, there's mass and then there's mass. ~1M deportations would not be such a huge departure from prior policy. 10-20M deportations absolutely would be, and that's what he and his henchmen have said they want to do. Hopefully they will find that that's infeasible, but again, it's not unreasonable to worry that they'll try and do extraordinary damage by trying.
10 million deportations would require hundreds of billions in spending, massive facilities etc. That's not going to happen without major Congressional action, which seems highly unlikely
Well said. And of course no one is releasing information as to how they will first find all those criminals from Nicaragua and Venezuela to deport first..what proof that will convince a judge they have the right to break into someone's house to do a search for illegal migrants. And they say they will house them at military bases until they can fly them back to some country...are all of our military bases that empty???? If they are going to round up even just a million folks, on day two (since trump will issue the order on day 1) will they have cages already ready for them? Of course the questions are almost endless.
And why? We need workers to wipe the asses of baby boomers. Plus prime age employment is above 2019 levels.
How old are you? Rhetorical. Voters are upset and rightly so. Trump has said over and over again what he intends to do. Don't you believe him? He is truly a fascist with a long terrible history. To mollycoddle him (maybe that is what Mika and Joe thought they were doing) is totally wrong. He is dangerous and will take the US off the world stage. America has succeeded because it includes the world in its purview and not many in the West will be happy to see that go. America First is a terrible slogan. We saved the world in WWII and he will tear it asunder.
He is the elected president. If he starts violating the law in an unequivocal and violent way, you can be right. Until then, it's just words.
He is the elected president in an historical moment of rampant disinformation, foreign interference, and self-selecting media bubbles that diverge radically from anything resembling reality. He is the elected president despite also being found guilty of felonies and liable for sexual abuse. Elected, yes, but patently unfit and underqualified for the position by any imaginable measure. He is a fraud, literally--legally. He has installed others accused of sexual assault in high positions of power and has orchestrated the repeal of a law designed to empower women to make choices about their own bodies and lives, essentially rendering women second-class citizens. All of these things he has already done, and now he returns to power with promises to do worse. I appreciate your "Relax and let's see what happens..." attitude--I really do. My nervous system needs a break. However, you're not showing a lot of empathy for those suffering from what he has already done, particularly in emboldening misogynists, rapists, and abusers--something that affects about 50% of the population, whether they voted to elect him or not.
Maybe it’s because as a man, the author isn’t shaken to the core by the purely vile phrase Trum helped put into existence “your body, my choice.”
Musk and Hegseth need wombs.
Regarding immigration, you’ve glaringly omitted the real fact (not a fake one) that Trump had Mike Johnson kill the bipartisan immigration bill last winter.
Are we to ignore or simply forget that a former president was effectively making federal policy while unelected? That policy manipulation by an unelected citizen severely distorted an issue near the top of many voters’ minds and was likely done to keep him out of jail. So forgive us if we can’t do simply turn the page and accept him as our ‘leader.’
True, but what's the functional difference between that and paid lobbyists writing and advocating for or against legislation? For that matter, what's the difference between him advocating for that bill to be killed, and Mike Bloomberg or the Kochs dumping millions into races?
They aren’t running for president? And. If it’s such a pressing issue like he endlessly states ,why did he not support it?
So someone running for POTUS can't take a position on a bill like a paid lobbyist can? That doesn't make any sense. Have you gone through that bill to see what other pork and policy was in there? Because there was $60 on billion wedged in there for Ukraine, and the GOP has become the anti-war party. This wasn't widely reported at the time, and it's still forgotten every time someone tries to cudgel him and his party with the failure of this bill.
What a perfectly rational and intelligent response. Unfortunately, either you or no one else made that same recognition with the mega and super conservative right and the heritage foundation types and the absolute whack job morons who listen to talk, radio and etc. Nobody made the same pitch with them of 4 years ago when Biden legitimately won with Harris instead the trumpy's the right. They didn't listen to such message that you put forth for us to listen to now. Instead they denied everything. They said it was all fraud. It was all stolen and you know after 4 years it sort of worked for them. So maybe a real lesson is that we should play the same game. Put it all in denial. His election was fraud stolen b******* he needs to die. Be in prison. The whole administration is wrong. Gutless terrible un-American bad. Isn't that really the lesson we're supposed to have learned? I agree with your rational, intelligent and positive perspective, but that doesn't really work in America anymore. Didn't they just prove that?
Here's the problem: the media and the Democrats dug too deep a hole calling Trump a Nazi, fascist etc. during the campaign, and for most of them, their solution is to keep digging. I believe it was all cynical and none of them actually believe he is a fascist.
If they had any moral courage, they would release this statement:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"When we called President Trump a fascist, we were lying. We did it for what we believed to be a greater good, and for our own self-interest, as we expect the rule of the Democrat Party under Kamala Harris to be better for us and those in our profession and our socioeconomic stratum. We did what we could to get her elected, and we couldn't drag her across the finish line.
President Trump is not a fascist. He is a nationalist and populist, which suits a majority of the American populace, if not us. The majority carries the day this time, and we wish you all good fortune and that the betterment of our shared country you are hoping for under Republican government are realized, and that it will be less painful for us than it is pleasant for you. Good luck, America."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Is that so hard? It might hurt for a few minutes, but it will be forgotten and the establishment media may find some redemption, maybe a few more people who trust them. But I predict few if any will do that, and mostly because they face no consequences for throwing words like "fascist" around.
As far as "normalizing Trump," what they have really done is normalize fascism, and similar doctrines covered under that rubric. There are some people, especially young men, who are curious about fascism, Nazism, white supremacy and the like. Some of them find themselves in disadvantageous positions where they can see the appeal. Blue collar white males are at the bottom of the totem pole socially and economically now and these ideologies speak to them, and offer a solution. History shows us that they are unlikely to deliver that solution and that they will not like what they really do deliver, but how do they know that? There was a time when a man who had these feelings would have to crawl to the depths to have them validated, to obscure websites and shadowy basement meetings with scary people, and that would usually be sufficient to hint that they will not find what they are looking for in fascism. But now, according to the establishment media, the President of the United States himself, elected by a majority of the people, is a fellow traveler! What could dignify fascism more than attributing it to our duly elected national leader? That is a bad thing they are doing, and if we ever do have a real and significant fascist movement in the US, blame can be laid at the feet of those who wilfully and cynically mischaracterized fascism as a mainstream ideology shared by President Trump.
You rightly point out what fascism truly means, but unfortunately it's now become, "that which I disagree with". I've never met the man, so I can't say with any certainty what's in his heart, or what his endgame is. I know that I strongly disapprove of much of his venomous rhetoric, and I think he shoots from the hip far, far too often, and that he's got ridiculously thin skin. But on major policy issues, I think there's some real positives there. He's a lifelong Democrat, and the fact that he's taken the GOP into strange territory - saying that there will be no national abortion ban, not wanting to engage in any wars, not being the least anti-gay, and becoming the party of the working class - speaks to his roots.
Sure, the GOP treated Obama horribly. And the Dems treated W horribly. And the GOP treated Clinton horribly. But, "they did it too" is horrible logic.
Trump won. Many of his proposed policies would not have been foreign under either Obama or Clinton. Take a deep breath, relax, and let's see what he actually does now that he's got 4 years of experience at the job and he's not able to run again.
If, and/or when he does something horrible or unconstitutional then call it out. Loudly.
Thanks so much for your writing. Keep up the good work! It’s needed and appreciated.
So, a couple of Weimar "opinion journalists" take the knee and kiss the ring and that means we should follow their example? That demonstrates how "reasonable: we can anf should be? Not only that, but we MUST stop thinking about Tr**p in any systematic, coherent way and simply judge each action and policy by its own merits? And just ignore Anne Applebaum, Tim Snyder and Masha Gessen. Or Hannah Arendt. Among the dozens of historians who have actualized through authoritarian take-overs and gone to great pains to warn us. Yeah. That oughta work...
You accomplished your goal.
Thank you from an apolitical person.
I didnt vote for him.... whatever shit show happens during the trump pres term is on the maga voters.... your pres. Your responsibility.