…well, pace Marx, also tragedy, albeit with the flavor of slapstick. Who could have predicted that the Republic would slide into outright fascism* on a banana peel? But this is what is happening.

After the 2016 election I told friends that what was coming would be worse than we imagined. I will amend that to say that thirty months on things are worse than I imagined would be worse than we imagined.

We are never coming back from this. The norms and institutions of “Constitutional democracy” have been destroyed. The GOP is a nakedly authoritarian, fascist* party that will rule as despots on behalf of the plutocrats in power, and make the country ungovernable during such periods, should these ever arise, in which it finds itself in opposition. Within another quarter-century, at the outside, seventy percent of the population will be concentrated within fifteen states, with fifteen senators representing them, and thirty percent in the other-thirty-five, with seventy senators: I can’t believe it’s not democracy!

I will assert that things are going to get much worse over the next two years and beyond than we imagine today, and worse again than what we imagine might be worse.

cordially,

*The late Bill Patient (whom I hope would not be a Trumpista had he lived to the present day) took me to task here on more than one occasion back in the day for using the F-word. Godwin himself now has rescinded the “law” that bore his name. I used to worry that we had a nascent fascist movement on our hands. I say “nascent” no more. It’s here.

But you have devolved into a troll. Maybe one in fifty of your posts here is worth reading.

And the two percent suggest that you’re potentially better than that. So why are you generally, day in and day out, such an asshole? Inquiring minds want to know, or at least wonder occasionally.

He was a regular consumer of World Net Daily, and has become habituated to it. Yeats:

We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare

cordially,