QOTD: "New Horrors Each Day"

 

The Guardian's Margaret Sullivan writes about how far down. the road to fascism we've gone in under one year of the Malignant Fascist's regime:

"One awakes to new horrors each day. And it is difficult to grasp – and painful to realize – just how far gone we are, and how quickly it has happened.

Yet, we know that Trump was duly elected. Even after his deeply disturbing first term and even after the warnings that came with the knowledge of Project 2025, the rightwing blueprint for an authoritarian second term – even after Trump himself said publicly he would be a dictator just on day one – enough Americans chose him over Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent.

Frightening as the current reality is, it’s even scarier to realize that we’re only nine months into this presidential term. Where will three more years of this decline leave us? And what if the three years turns into something even longer, since there is no one to restrain this president from deciding that a third term is necessary, perhaps for national security reasons?"

Cracks in the MAGA facade are showing, whether the agriculture / ranching sector's sense of betrayal over the MF's punishing tariffs and beef deal with Argentina, or the conspiracists that are insisting that the MF release the Epstein - Trump files that he's prominent throughout, or general outrage over his oligarch-financed imperial ball room and Qatari presidential jet representing crass elitism.  We've posted below about Hispanics leaving the Republican Party in Texas over the cruel and unlawful treatment of fellow Hispanics there and across the U.S.  If those cracks split open, Dems need to be nimble and smart enough to step in and expose the hypocrisy and dishonesty the MAGA movement represents.  Will they?  Let's not take it for granted that they will.