We All Knew Trump Was Going To Do This
So how come so many things still seem surprising?
I think the answer is, in short, that no one wants to drink poison. And we all knew Trump was going to make everyone drink poison before this is done. Many millions of his supporters will do so willingly. In fact daily they ask for more and more poison please.
Because they’ve apparently decided the President’s rule breaking is always a show of strength and never a virulent corrosion of civil society. And that their entire life and identify depends on him.
Trump always makes everyone pay for his failures. This is something for which we can be hardened to, but never really be prepared.
I’d love to be writing about the opportunities President-elect Biden will have whether or not Democrats have control of the Senate. And the challenges. And it p*sses me the hell off that I can’t quite manage to do it right now. Because every time I sit down to do it — and I will soon, I promise! — another piece of crazy flashes onto my news feed.
At the same time, if I ignore what’s happening on the ground right now today politically, and just try to leap past to pressing issues for the present (like soaring COVID-19 and a struggling economy), and visions of a possible future, that also may be a disservice. Possibly…
