A failed coup, followed by a return to power a few years later? Check.
Make-believe economics? Check.
A number of scapegoat minorities singled out, demonized, and the most vulnerable being rounded up by masked, unaccountable Federal police force and imprisoned under substandard conditions before being deported or (rarely) released? Check.
Lots of saber-rattling about territorial expansion, accompanied by military action against far weaker forces? Check.
Intimidating the Press into compliance? Check.
Administration spokesmen push a "might is right" approach to foreign relations? Check.
These are not normal times. This is not normal politics. Mr. Trump's Republicans are not the party of Lincoln, Reagan -- or even Nixon.
The Trump administration are bad guys, and they're making over the United States of America in their image.
You can call 'em any manner of names out of history, and some of the tags are a pretty good fit, but the label doesn't matter. What matters is their behavior, and they're spinning up genocide at home and military adventurism overseas.
It may be possible to stop them in the midterm elections. It may be possible to get the U.S. back on a sane and normal path.
I sure hope we can -- because we're being led by bloodthirsty fools, and their only other limitation is their staggering incompetence and lack of empathy. They've got the skills to make a terrible, tragic mess, and no more.
Update
1 year ago
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Since I can't even send donations from Canada, I can only wish America a speedy recovery. In the meantime, we'll stay home, thanks. Not buying much bourbon these days either 😉.
Recovering from the Trump flu is going to a very difficult process. Perhaps the vaccinated will outlast the unvaccinated and prevail at the ballot box.
Good bourbon is getting harder to find on USA store shelves since local production output has dropped significantly. I have an infrequent sip of mine when pondering the really bad days which are nearly sequential now.
The sad thing is that in a lot of ways, Trump is a whole lot more reasonable than the a lot of people with influence in the GOP.
However, a lot of them have very different goals and philosophies on how things should work, with only old Don holding them together. JD vs Elon, Shapiro vs Tucker, Erica vs Candice- it will be interesting and in the old Chinese curse way.
My fear is that we are going back to the days of great powers, spheres of influence and the law of conquest.
How many times did Alsace-Lorraine change hands, back in the day?
We are tap dancing right up to a whole bunch of bright lines these chucklefucks don’t even realize exist.
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