imma, do a brain exercise with me. Think back to a year ago. If I had told you the following:
"Trump's going to win the election, and, within a year, the National Guard can and will be spun up to occupy any Democrat-run city at the President's will. ICE will be indiscriminately gathering people up and attacking them on the streets solely by race (with Supreme Court approval). Openly daring someone to fight back, so things can be even further escalated. Habeous corpus and due process will be ignored as humans--illegal or otherwise--are sent to 3rd world prisons to be tortured or disappeared. POTUS, in plain words, will declare Democrats the enemy of the nation, and political violence by the right is justified to to stop their radicalism. The media will capitulate at every step of the way, lest they be punished or removed. And Trump would still win a national election if it were held Nov 2, 2025, all while clumsily hiding his involvement in a pedo sex ring."
You would have told me to get ahold of myself and stop with the hyperbole, yes? Shit, I'd be telling myself that a year ago.
So what are the things that you're going to be asking us to not overreact to at this point next year?
When everyone just sits back and expects things like norms and precedent to eventually hold [narrator: they won't], incompetent and stupid can accomplish a hell of a lot through force, lies, and shamelessness.