A game of dominoes

[sabotabby]

 It's heartening to see a stream of thinkpieces about how this is it for Cheeto Benito this time, for realsies, it's all coming crashing down. I want to believe this is the case.

But I lived through four years of the Honourable Wifebeater here in Toronto, and I just have no more confidence left that there is anything too outlandish, treasonous, or debased for the American far-right.

I do want to see Kushner go down, though. Sounds like he's next. I have a particular hatred for Jews who pal around with neo-Nazis, what can I say?

Comments

[mistersmearcase]

Yeah, I just cannot imagine this is it for 45. He seems pretty indestructible, because his supporters don't give a fuck about anything and the near right is terrified of his supporters. His approval rating on 538 has hovered around 38% for at least six months, during which time he has committed abomination after abomination. 38% of people are fine with him: grabbing women by the pussy, wagging his dick at dictators of nuclear powers, giving the thumbs up to actual Nazis, I can't even begin to superficially catalog the horrors. And on the left, such as it is, we all know that even if we somehow got him out, Pence is same story, less dementia. Absolutely the only hope is the midterm elections, and I can't bring myself to get my hopes up about those, so really all I'm doing is holding my breath that Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn't fucking die and we don't get into an actual nuclear war for the next THREE YEARS.

[sabotabby]

My experience with Ford's trajectory suggests that our best hope is cancer. He'd have won a second term if he hadn't died.

[rdi]

Sadly that’s congruent with the ~30% of people who have an authoritarian personality and will fall in line behind any strong leader who offers simple explanations and a scapegoat.