Why Did America Just Elect A Dictator?

And all his bizarre little henchmen

I’ve been saying to anyone who would listen, all the people pointing to the visibly meagerly attended Trump rallies of the campaign’s final few weeks: that was meaningless. People stopped going to Trump rallies because they were not fun anymore, not because they didn’t support the man. (And they might’ve been a little worried about getting shot.)

But doesn’t mean they want to mete out pain and punishment any less to those whom they feel are doing the country wrong. And don’t yet see (or maybe even want) what damage Trump will do to civil service. (Which is probably the only reason Harris didn’t lose Virginia: because a lot of government workers who live there know they’re probably going to get fired so they can be replaced by Trump lackeys.) And don’t yet see that Trump’s absolutely NOT “better for the economy.” Not by a long shot.

By the time they do, it’ll be too late. I keep thinking back to when Trump wanted the Federal Reserve to drop interest rates to nothing. Then Covid came along, and of course, if the Fed had no room to drop interest rates at that point, which they wouldn’t have if they had listened to Trump, they couldn’t have saved the economy. Now, one of the first things he will do is fire Fed Chief Jerome Powell.