ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

Hell if someone tried to murder you and you just gave up and went about your way, no one would trust you to do anything of substance. That is the problem with the Democratic party today.

I agree that the democrats needed a big bold message, but this is a strange metaphor. If someone tried to murder you and you just went about your way, people would... Vote for the murderer, I guess?

Don't you dare speak that into existence.

Seeing as how the President is still a position that nominally serves the people, honestly we should be told as a nation whether he's a security threat in our agencies' assessments.

I'm all for not scapegoating any minority, since what's notable about the Black vote is roughly the same as for Latin American, younger demographics, and so on: it isn't that they are "to blame," it's that the support increased over 2016 or 2020.

So while it's a good reminder not to scapegoat, we definitely still need to talk and think about how different demographics (who will absolutely lose rights and opportunities under Trump) looked at Trump and decided to say, "more, please," if we're ever going to get out of this mess.

Yup, Gaetz and (if the GOP does the minimum of trying to protect this country) Gabbard are the sacrificial lambs to get through Hegseth, RFK and already too many others to count.

Yeah, republicans often find even a microscopic backbone once they no longer are running for reelection. In this case, it probably will be "I said no for a few weeks before I said yes."

Just thinking back to how easy it would have been to never have Trump in our lives again, to get off this worst timeline, if just a handful of people had a tiny bit of courage at the impeachment trials.

Maybe they all thought he was cooked and they could once again forget about doing the right thing one more time, to endear themselves to his rabid supporters. It's dizzying to think they could have protected the Constitution with a single word, and failed to do even that.

He wrote a chapter in Project 2025 (sensing a trend here?).

He made comments claiming the CBS interview of Kamala needed to be examined after Trump did his usual whiney nonsense about the media treating her better.

Basically he's another dangerous sycophant.

Sure, yup. But also, imagine if Germany in 1933 was an active worldwide superpower with 128 military bases in 55 foreign countries, with an annual military budget higher than the national GDPs of 167 of the 188 countries in the world.

I don’t think the people who voted for Donald Trump, allegedly because of economic angst, have a full appreciation for what that means.”

My cynical take is that those voters have already tuned out again, and aren't even paying attention to the consequences of their vote.

When it comes time to personally experience said consequences, they'll have forgotten their complicity and accept whatever feel-better answer is readily available. No lessons will be learned.

There was something off about his obviously intentionally egregious picks, and what you say makes a lot of sense.

In 2016, Trump was an outsider with a few allies. 2016-2020 he bullied anti-Trump republicans like Kinzinger and Cheney, making examples out of them and getting a lot of candidates, governors and House members to kiss the ring. By 2020 on Jan. 6th when it came time to object to certification and stage the coup, the House was deeply infected by MAGA loyalists, but the Senate was mostly immune (with a few exceptions, like perennially spineless Cruz and Hawley).

Now in 2024, the Senate is showing signs of pushback but Trump knows he has momentum from a likely complete House takeover and his election "mandate." He's making a statement: "submit."

The backlash makes more sense when you consider it's a purely emotional reaction. It's a backlash against "feeling bad." Nevermind that feeling bad when seeing someone who was wronged is appropriate.

Rather than even try to reckon with those feelings, the part of the nation that is not being victimized decided it's too hard to empathize with victims. They didn't like feeling bad. And happily for them, there were plenty of conmen and women, influencers, and other people more than happy to tell them they shouldn't feel bad, in exchange for money and power.