The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.
I don’t give a fuck how you voted, if you’re a girl dad in this country right now, the idea of having a government that punishes pregnant women and rewards rapists sure as shit ain’t gonna help you sleep at night.
Trump has shown he understands a cardinal rule of strong man dominance: constantly force your allies to defend the indefensible & to make ever greater concessions they once would have considered beyond the pale. Each surrender paves the way for the next. Gaetz just an opening bid
The point of nominating Gaetz for AG or Tulsi as DNI is to force feed you this shit until you lose hope.
Period. This is systematic abuse meant to break your will.
@susmurphy If "The Media" is Fox, you may be right. But it's not all of them. We didn't lose a chunk of Latinos and Blacks because of the NY Times. Hardly anyone actually reads it. We need to face the reality of what Americans (and humans) are, and adjust our strategy if it's not too late.