If there is a chance for what remains of our American democracy to be saved and/or restored, you know that it is not going to happen with the Republican party in power, as it has been now for well over a year. You know that they are not likely to grow a spine all of a sudden, since they have shown no signs of a spine, collectively, in over a decade now. This trend has become particularly blatant in the decade and change since Trump first rose to political power.
And while I am aware that Trump and MAGA are likely to make every effort to cheat in the upcoming election, it still offers the best chance in the immediate future to curtail and seriously challenge the unchecked power of the Trump White House. After all, we can clearly see that the Republicans are just not capable of doing it for the last....oh, ten years or so.
What do you need as further evidence? Another ten years for Trump and MAGA to erode American democracy and destroy the nation's reputation around the world, possibly flirting with World War III in the process? Another ten years of lies and inconsistency and secret police and bullying the world and propaganda to make it all seem normal and/or necessary?
It's time. Hell, it's way past time to get Trump out of office. At the very least, to make sure that his power does not remain unchecked. The case he made for why he cannot be trusted with such power could not be any clearer.
Fortunately, Trump is not smart enough, despite his claims of being a "very stable genius," to not get in his own way from time to time. He can always be counted on to say or do something utterly reprehensible, which will put limits on his options. Except that even then, obviously we cannot count on the Mindless MAGA Moron cult to ever question their loyalty to such an undeserving and, quite frankly, unimpressive man. They still seem to worship him, which continues to give him leverage which he neither deserves nor can be trusted with.
However, we have to keep reminding ourselves that Trump is not all-powerful, and certainly also not all-popular.
Nevertheless, it does seem like Trump, this time, might just be compromising his Republican party to the point where they face some serious losses in this election year. And while I am skeptical as to how much change this will actually bring to the country - it's not like a Democratic majority in either chamber of Congress did much to keep him in check during his first term, and he is more out of control than ever before now in his second term - we nonetheless need something to try and limit his power. We really are at that breaking point.
Admittedly, I have been quite skeptical of the Democrats. They stopped being impressive to me sometime while Bill Clinton was still in the Oval Office. But at this point, we need something other than the Trump MAGA cult holding all of the reins of power in this country.
To that end, Trump himself, with his idiotic, irrational, and inconsistent behavior and words and actions, might prove to be the greatest asset to his own undoing.
Let us hope that this is the case.
Trump’s 'bait and switch' pushing GOP to desperation Story by Alex Henderson • 18h
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-bait-and-switch-pushing-gop-to-desperation/ar-AA1ZdClf?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=69c22b9b57204a99927166e816973d5b&ei=16
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