Republican leaders privately despising Trump but blithely working to reward and validate his tenure with Congressional majorities is a pretty good example of how they lost a battle of wits to the host of Celebrity Apprentice in the first place!
Every once in a while I remember this business in Chicago that hung up a Trump 2024 sign facing the highway that reading "I MISS GAS @ $1.79/GAL & MEAN TWEETS."
The sign is still there because the company went out of business.
Oh, the pied-a-terre tax makes it financially unpleasant to own your unoccupied second home? Congestion pricing makes it too expensive to continue driving into the city? Airlines charging for bags means you always carry on now? Cool, those are the desired outcomes.
Remarkable how perfectly American fascism crystallizes into these figures you couldn’t write into fiction without being accused of heavy-handedness
The new wave of narco imperialism is led by a sweaty, wide-eyed, coked-out christian zealot ranting about drug cartels? Okay. Sure.
Hillary Clinton reemerging from obscurity to amplify and validate GOP talking points against populist Dems as America heads into the general election against Trump’s party — what an incredibly on-brand commitment to the bit