I have spent way too much time following MSNBC, of course also here and HuffPo, TPM, etc., and wherever else seemed like it might serve. I truly love the BLM-ers I follow on Twitter (where my username is the same as here).
I am pro-resistance to the max or at least to the McConnell-point. But I do not truly believe it is resistance to Trump. In his own way, Trump is a rational actor, a reasonable man, and someone who might be able to make a deal between what we must become on the one hand and Paul Ryan on the other hand. Trump must not be impeached. Trump IS millions of people in this country and WHATEVER his ignorance, “stepping into that chair” is going to change him. Only we should define what “for the better” means, praise Jesus!
The old GOP ways of unprincipled shiftiness in the guise of inconsistent principles that can only be followed by a cowed mass must end. That authoritarian herd IS what is on the other side of President Trump-to-be (so soon!). I do not like their policies. I believe GOP-led policy thinking has already been the ruination of USA promise AGAIN and AGAIN for more than a century now.
Yes we are going to help make Trump’s day-to-day pressures more miserable but it is our “job” (that he can’t fire us from) to be tough opponents. Trump respects “tough.”
He also has a funny way of being right. If you can parse Palin into little pastries and then intuit what he thinks he means, and then factor in whether it’s on a subject where he needs to lie (every one?). Trump is a very powerful man with very ugly outlooks on the other side of him. His self-indulgence in promoting ugly outlooks at rallies OR as his father taught him is being perpetrated by the Trump we know and we know him. NOT that we can predict him.
I am not normalizing ways Donald J. Trump the private citizen should have been an improved man right along. But he tries things and he dares. I prefer President Donald J. Trump to the dangers of Pence or Ryan. If Reagan could make it work, then Jared Kushner can get us through the first chaos by thinking things through carefully with his father-in-law. Also, this is inevitably what is going to happen. We should hope Reince has a say but we should not expect Trump to trust him. He is more his own man than that and even if people believe that means he is Putin’s then that is what he is and Trump belongs to Trump. Everything comes back to Trump. This is the problem with inequality and the giants atop an unequal economy such as our USA today. He has already dominated day after day of million-dollar news coverage like who? Nobody else? He will get his credit for whatever he does and he knows it. We all hope it stays non-nuclear, but that is about to be up to him.
Seriously, no matter how much Trump is about to seem our nightmare villain, the army behind him is what we should disempower. Trump would love to make any glorious deal that makes Trump America great for the first time. Our resistance must be shaping. And we must look over Trump’s shoulder at those dangers as we resist.
Healing this country means getting past our bad baggage. We shouldn’t really trust ANYONE! We should resist. (Stronger together.)