"The fact that Trump’s actions now are as aggressive as they were before he squandered his good will doesn’t mean he’s reset the game board and started over. ...
It’s an error to confuse flailing for forward momentum, but it’s also an error to grow complacent, simply because at this point in the game he’s closer to defeat. He’s also creating big problems that will be hard to fix in the future, when he’s gone."
#Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating
/8
"To mistake today’s madness on all fronts for the madness of last year requires pretending that everything in between never happened. And it’s a lot. It’s overreach and economic deterioration and No Kings and corruption scandals and an approval rating that’s inverted from +12 to -16."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #NobelPeacePrize #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating
/7
"The fact that Trump’s actions now are as aggressive as they were before he squandered his good will doesn’t mean he’s reset the game board and started over. ...
It’s an error to confuse flailing for forward momentum, but it’s also an error to grow complacent, simply because at this point in the game he’s closer to defeat. He’s also creating big problems that will be hard to fix in the future, when he’s gone."
#Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating
/8
"But there’s one important caveat I didn’t address: the interim risk that he overturns the game board. That may be what he’s working himself up to do."
#Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #InsurrectionAct
/9
"You know what Americans aren’t talking about very much today after Trump’s threat to detonate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) this week and his threat this morning to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota?"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Epstein #Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #Greenland #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #InsurrectionAct
/10
"They aren’t talking a lot about the fact that the Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the Epstein files despite the law, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Congress passed requiring the release of those files in full no later than December 19."
#Epstein #Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #Greenland #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #InsurrectionAct
/11
