The German elites in the interwar period felt very much the same about a political nobody named Adolf Hitler - they were sure they'd be able to push him around if he was elected chancellor, and gave him their backing. Most of them, to borrow your phrase, got their faces ripped off.
The problem here is that voting Republican or Democratic is one thing. A vote for a rapist and convicted felon despite unprecedented objections from millions of people is another. It's the act of a bad neighbor.
I'm seeing signs already that people have had enough. The stress, the volatility, the erosion of things like laws that we depended on to make sense of the world. And what we got in return was stuff for cruel, weird people trying to cheat to win. This situation and this behavior is no longer acceptable. What to do about it? What we did about smoking: make it too expensive and difficult and shameful to continue.
Start with Thanksgiving. Don't have anyone who's thankful for electing a rapist at your table. Yes, of course I mean family too. Face it: it hasn't gotten any better in eight years, has it? If those people were strangers, would you ever spend a minute of time with them at all? Trust me, you have a friend who feels the same way. Get together with them and have a Thanksgiving that people will actually look forward to doing again.
Thanks for this write up and your continued journalism.
Maybe naive but I find it disheartening that so many powerful people within this ecosystem, so-called forward thinkers and renegades, are ignoring the truly existential issues for people like women’s health, climate progress, and others for the sake of unfettered personal gain, political access, or business contracts. Not even to mention the anti-American rhetoric and actions this man has shown time and again he stands for, despite the likely correct take that they associate Trumpism with doing whatever they want *personally* without feeling bad about it (which is a real issue for Democratic messaging, I agree).
I understand that these are our friends and colleagues in many cases, but I can’t help but be disappointed that they’ve hitched their wagon to this person in the face of all they know about him as a so-called rebuke of the “other side”, versus literally any other approach.
On the free speech point, I think the first test comes with deportations. If he’s serious about it and goes hard with camera worthy house to house searches, I suspect there will be a lot of protests. If they get out of hand he may send in the national guard, like he wanted to in DC during the BLM protests.
The German elites in the interwar period felt very much the same about a political nobody named Adolf Hitler - they were sure they'd be able to push him around if he was elected chancellor, and gave him their backing. Most of them, to borrow your phrase, got their faces ripped off.
The problem here is that voting Republican or Democratic is one thing. A vote for a rapist and convicted felon despite unprecedented objections from millions of people is another. It's the act of a bad neighbor.
I'm seeing signs already that people have had enough. The stress, the volatility, the erosion of things like laws that we depended on to make sense of the world. And what we got in return was stuff for cruel, weird people trying to cheat to win. This situation and this behavior is no longer acceptable. What to do about it? What we did about smoking: make it too expensive and difficult and shameful to continue.
Start with Thanksgiving. Don't have anyone who's thankful for electing a rapist at your table. Yes, of course I mean family too. Face it: it hasn't gotten any better in eight years, has it? If those people were strangers, would you ever spend a minute of time with them at all? Trust me, you have a friend who feels the same way. Get together with them and have a Thanksgiving that people will actually look forward to doing again.
Thanks for this write up and your continued journalism.
Maybe naive but I find it disheartening that so many powerful people within this ecosystem, so-called forward thinkers and renegades, are ignoring the truly existential issues for people like women’s health, climate progress, and others for the sake of unfettered personal gain, political access, or business contracts. Not even to mention the anti-American rhetoric and actions this man has shown time and again he stands for, despite the likely correct take that they associate Trumpism with doing whatever they want *personally* without feeling bad about it (which is a real issue for Democratic messaging, I agree).
I understand that these are our friends and colleagues in many cases, but I can’t help but be disappointed that they’ve hitched their wagon to this person in the face of all they know about him as a so-called rebuke of the “other side”, versus literally any other approach.
On the free speech point, I think the first test comes with deportations. If he’s serious about it and goes hard with camera worthy house to house searches, I suspect there will be a lot of protests. If they get out of hand he may send in the national guard, like he wanted to in DC during the BLM protests.