Democrats (a a whole) want to enforce the rules and laws by respecting them and using them in a manner befitting the good faith actions they expect the populace to exhibit.
The GOP has been on a slow drift since the 1950’s towards not acting in good faith and doing whatever they can to bend or outright break rules that don’t suit them. This decline in behaviour accelerated with GWB and the Florida ballots, and then went off the fucking cliff when (GASP!!!) a black man ((sotto voce) Dear Lord, help us) took office.
Trump’s rise (was it the Simpsons fault for being an oracle, thus causing it?) is merely the symptom of this insanity. In one sense we are all (the world) lucky that the person channelling that lightning is so incompetent as a human. We may yet find a temporary reprieve in the race to the destruction of the American Experiment if he can be brought to heel under law.
But also to your point, yes it’s likely that the Dems need to ‘grow a set’ to get stuff done as well as to capture the imagination of those who feel they need a ‘strong leader’.
Democrats (a a whole) want to enforce the rules and laws by respecting them and using them in a manner befitting the good faith actions they expect the populace to exhibit.
The GOP has been on a slow drift since the 1950’s towards not acting in good faith and doing whatever they can to bend or outright break rules that don’t suit them. This decline in behaviour accelerated with GWB and the Florida ballots, and then went off the fucking cliff when (GASP!!!) a black man ((sotto voce) Dear Lord, help us) took office.
Trump’s rise (was it the Simpsons fault for being an oracle, thus causing it?) is merely the symptom of this insanity. In one sense we are all (the world) lucky that the person channelling that lightning is so incompetent as a human. We may yet find a temporary reprieve in the race to the destruction of the American Experiment if he can be brought to heel under law.
But also to your point, yes it’s likely that the Dems need to ‘grow a set’ to get stuff done as well as to capture the imagination of those who feel they need a ‘strong leader’.