President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Not “hatred of liberals.” Just “hatred of anyone who’s not like them.”

 

As a general principle, most people chose that path of least resistance. The media is not exception. The road easiest traveled is the route

 

Conservatives run on fear. Basically since World War II, that's the overriding message. The world is a dangerous place, wanting to take away your rights and FREEDUMB! Even the mailers I'm getting for the Georgia runoff don't have anything to say except "radical leftists want to steal your country!" Perdue and Loeffler are vacuous marionettes.

Fear of crime.
Fear of defunding the police.
Fear of gun control.
Fear of communism.
Fear of socialism.
Fear of Marxism.
Fear of losing states' rights.
Fear of losing federal rights.
Fear of losing ...

A party of fear only feeds on its own paranoia. We're getting close to the point where the only thing they have to fear is themselves, to steal John F. Kennedy's famous line.

 

My Saturday just brightened up immensely.

 

I don’t believe signing on to a frivolous lawsuit DQs you from being in Congress. But

1) If you’re also a lawyer, it should get you reported to your Bar Association,

2) if you’re also from one of states you say that their election process was fraudulent, House should refuse to seat you.

 

Again.

The unfounded, unwinnable nuisance suit as a weapon to exhaust reasonable people is Trump's business model.

 

Vox populi
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Donald sucks
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is it over yet

 

Washington Post did a deep dive on Texas AG Ken Paxton, who pretty clearly tied his wagon to Trump as the last best way to escape his mounting legal problems.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_national

I wonder if second-term Trump would’ve tried to replace Barr with Paxton. It’d be on-brand.

 

Well, actually …

 

And this time, the trail won't lead to a dead end. There are a lot of vengeful people who will want their pound of flesh. And he's taking down a lot of other stupid sheeple and an entire political party. Sweet dreams.

 

That party is still likely to hold on to control of the Senate. They made gains in the House, and they still have way too much power in state legislatures. They also have a very real chance to take back the House of Representatives in two years and the White House in four.

I don't like any of that. There was a time I was firmly enough in the middle of the road that I would have been fine with that. The last four years changed that. Trumpism is a cancer in a part that I used to think had some value. My concern is that rather than being fatal, it's going to be chronic.