The Atlantic article starts, “America survived the first Trump term, though not without sustaining serious damage. A second term, if there is one, will be much worse. Like many reporters, I’ve been operating in Casaubon mode for much of the past eight years, searching for the key to Donald Trump’s mythologies. No single explanation of Trump is fully satisfactory, although Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer came closest when he observed that the cruelty is the point. Another person who helped me unscramble the mystery of Trump was his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Early in the Trump presidency, I had lunch with Kushner in his White House office. We were meant to be discussing Middle East peace (more on that another time), but I was particularly curious to hear Kushner talk about his father-in-law’s behavior. I was not inured then—and am not inured even now—to the many rococo manifestations of Trump’s defective character. One of the first moments of real shock for me came in the summer of 2015, when Trump, then an implausible candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said of Senator John McCain, ‘He’s not a war hero … I like people who weren’t captured, okay?’ I did not understand how so many ostensibly patriotic voters could subsequently embrace Trump, but mainly I couldn’t understand his soul sickness: How does a person come to such a rotten, depraved thought?”
I will be honest, I did not read the entire article because it’s pointless. “A warning” is meaningless because people are too f***ing G.D. stupid to care. It won’t work, and too many important people remain silent on the terror of a traitor trump second term. We’ve been through this before in the 2016 election. If memory serves me correctly, despite every bit of traitor trump’s bad behavior during his first presidential campaign, as the article notes a particularly egregious comment about McCain, every newspaper and periodical that made a presidential endorsement urged voters to elect Hillary Clinton, except two. Of all the national, state, and local endorsements, only two backed traitor trump. And one of them was the National Enquirer, not exactly a newspaper of record. How well did that work? In typical American fashion, voters roundly ignored them. In short, all of the learned political class (I don’t mean that disparagingly) warned voters against putting traitor trump in the White House, and America, in all their infinite wisdom (that is intended to be a pejorative), did just the f***ing opposite because I live in stupid f***ing hell. And morons of America are about to do it again.
This election will be no different. People are completely unpersuadable. Add to the ennui of Americans this dearth of testimony from former traitor trump administration officials, and we are destined to put a dictator back into office. Granted, a few people from the first administration have been warning about a second traitor trump term, but there are several notable silent (or soft) voices, namely his former military leaders, e.g., Mattis and Miley. They may have been outspoken at one point, but now they are resident at the most critical moment in our history. If there are any people that citizens may heed, it would be traitor trump’s former generals, but we get crickets! Indeed, it’s all mostly crickets. These generals and protectors of the Constitution are too afraid to pipe up and protect our democracy once out of military service. But whatever! People don’t care. We are sleepwalking right into the end of our democracy. Oh, well. I’ve been warning you for over four years! Welcome to stupid America! No one cares!