"All Donald Trump ever did was come along and toss a lit match into the fireworks factory."
I take your point in terms of the " kindling" already historically in place......but I want to disagree a bit.
He did toss the lit match but , in my opinion, it wasn't all he ever did. He also projected onto our entire society his embedded dysfunction, his bullying ego, his all consuming self -absorption, his absurd stream of conscious word salad, his incredible inability to govern. He was deeply ignorant and devoid of any concept of public service or of the common good. His black holes as a person caused people caught in a pandemic to die, and others to lose their lives during and after the violent insurrection he generated.
With no chance of intervention we were trapped and held hostage for four years by an extremely sick person. Even now I have PTSD seeing his face and hearing his voice.
Yes, he lit a match on the detritus of a long past, but then he circled the fire with his own inflammatory self. He did tremendous new damage to us all.
Absolutely yes, Carol. Trump was an attention-starved child who got what he wanted--the biggest starring role in history--but then he wanted more, and more, and more, and he started to throw bigger and bigger tantrums. Pretty soon those who had grabbed him when they'd been waiting for the perfect guy started to realize that their chosen guy was out of control. You are right that he did a great deal of damage, some permanent--like the harm to the planet ;over the years of rolled back regulations--some that will be generations in even a beginning of a turnaround, like the hundred of young, inexperienced, and ultra-right judges on federal benches across the country. But all those were specific parts of the Federalist/Opus Dei agenda long before Mr. Trump came into play. This entire event from when none of us even knew who the Federalists were up until today has been, honestly, the best co-ordinated installation of CRAZY into public life I've ever seen. I read that this kind of gun-slinger atmosphere was a lot more common a couple of hundred years ago.
"All Donald Trump ever did was come along and toss a lit match into the fireworks factory."
I take your point in terms of the " kindling" already historically in place......but I want to disagree a bit.
He did toss the lit match but , in my opinion, it wasn't all he ever did. He also projected onto our entire society his embedded dysfunction, his bullying ego, his all consuming self -absorption, his absurd stream of conscious word salad, his incredible inability to govern. He was deeply ignorant and devoid of any concept of public service or of the common good. His black holes as a person caused people caught in a pandemic to die, and others to lose their lives during and after the violent insurrection he generated.
With no chance of intervention we were trapped and held hostage for four years by an extremely sick person. Even now I have PTSD seeing his face and hearing his voice.
Yes, he lit a match on the detritus of a long past, but then he circled the fire with his own inflammatory self. He did tremendous new damage to us all.
yes to all
Doubt that TC would argue with a syllable, I don’t
Absolutely yes, Carol. Trump was an attention-starved child who got what he wanted--the biggest starring role in history--but then he wanted more, and more, and more, and he started to throw bigger and bigger tantrums. Pretty soon those who had grabbed him when they'd been waiting for the perfect guy started to realize that their chosen guy was out of control. You are right that he did a great deal of damage, some permanent--like the harm to the planet ;over the years of rolled back regulations--some that will be generations in even a beginning of a turnaround, like the hundred of young, inexperienced, and ultra-right judges on federal benches across the country. But all those were specific parts of the Federalist/Opus Dei agenda long before Mr. Trump came into play. This entire event from when none of us even knew who the Federalists were up until today has been, honestly, the best co-ordinated installation of CRAZY into public life I've ever seen. I read that this kind of gun-slinger atmosphere was a lot more common a couple of hundred years ago.
Allow me to add, the three federalist puppets he nominated to SCOTUS were reek havoc for generations to come!
Right, Louis. How could I forget that horror show?
Brava Carol!
That would look nice on his tombstone.