(September 18, 2023 at 12:49 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(September 17, 2023 at 11:27 pm)Fireball Wrote: There must be some point where the republicans turn their respective backs on this madman. They have to know that he's an albatross tied to their necks, at this point. Not that I want their kind of shit to continue.
you think he is madder than the republicans and hence there could be a point when they realize he is mad. i think that is a misreading of the dynamics. large portion of republicans are functionally as mad as he is and many wish they themselves had the courage to be be madder than trump, and are only watching how well trump succeeds and what fate befall him to decide whether to risk being madder than trump.
people need to understand american democracy is not imperiled by merely an aberrant madman. it is imperiled by the fact that half, perhaps the majority, of the voting population care only about getting what they want and not at all about the meaning or institution or democracy.
They found their leader in Trump. He says the quiet stuff out loud and his followers can't get enough of it.
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