At 4:42 p.m., exactly a year ago, then-President Trump tweeted: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Anthony Aguero is the type of "conservative" "Republican" that drove my 97-almost-98 year old father from the Republican Party. He voted Democratic for the first time in his life this time around, and was proud when Biden won the election. In his words, "I did not fight in two wars to defend a country that produces this type of politicians and idiocy. I cannot vote for a party that allows this to happen." Rock on, Dad!!!
America is in danger of losing something very important in politics: the concept of a Loyal Opposition. It ensures continuity from one administration to another, particularly through the peaceful transfer of power. Also central is the notion that minority parties can legitimately criticize, even oppose, the government without automatically committing treason or a crime. The origins lie in late 17C England after the "Glorious" Revolution of 1688, as the country moved from the turmoil of the Stuart era into the more stable and prosperous 18C. It actually predates democracy, first functioning to moderate conflict between Court (royal) and Country (parliamentary) aristocratic factions. Gradually it extended to party rivalries and ultimately all kinds of representative government.
Loyal opposition may be codified as in the UK and other Commonwealth countries, or have more the status of tradition as in the US. It can serve as a needed check on government authority, but also to prevent government from exercising any authority. That latter weakness, as exploited by the GOP, is now destabilizing the country in dangerous and unpredictable ways. When the opposition won't accept election results, allow peaceful power transfer, or renounce violence as an instrument of policy, its disloyalty threatens the entire foundation of the nation's political system. In 1861 Lincoln expressed its essence: "We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves." It is essential to know what's at risk before it is gone forever.
(Written mostly from memory, so pardon any errors)
S Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution
J Plumb, The Growth of Political Stability in England
My heart is breaking and the tears are flowing down my face as I watched that video of those nurses. And now I'm waiting for the heartache to turn to anger as I know it will.
And the fact that I will get angry makes my anger turn into hate, something I don't want to feel but it will come and then my husband will get upset (he's already upset because of my crying and has left the room).
My husband has Lewy Body Dementia. He is 59 years old and has had it for at least ten years. And while he has beaten the odds of averages we know his life will be shortened by this terrible disease.
And that is why my anger comes forth so much. Instead of being able to just enjoy our last days together we have had to immerse ourselves with the news and be aware of all the BS that was happening during the former guys tenure and waste precious time talking about it.
My husband has only left the house once since last March and that was to get an MRI that the doctor insisted on to be able to keep getting his pain meds. His world was already very small, but now it is smaller. He has even stopped going to the dispensary, a place he loved to go to. To talk to them about what he needs and to share pictures of his latest crop and what new thing he has done to make the process easier and more efficient.
And that angers me when I see people without masks.
I try to explain that we aren't worried about him getting covid and dying, he is pretty healty other than the LBD. Its the fact that mentally he wouldn't be able to deal with it.
He got sick a couple years ago. He couldn't function and spent three days sitting on the edge of the bed, rocking back back and forth, while staring at the floor an moaning because he couldn't get the words out to say anything. It was heartbreaking and I swore that my only goal in life is to give him the best life he can have, to play his video games and grow his pot and not worry about anything.
So my anger is starting to rise and I am glad that I don't have to go anywhere today, because I think I would lose it if I saw anyone without a mask.
I think everyone who refuses to wear a mask should 1) use their right to be treated for anything covid related and 2) have to spend a day watching videos like the one I just watched and 3) have to talk to the nurses who are dealing with covid.
But like a lot of things in this country, it seems that we are all to willing to let people off the hook for their bad actions and instead use the words freedom to justify it.
Well you know what, your freedom to be an ahole shouldn't weigh more than my husband's right to be free from the fear of your aholeness causing him to suffer from something that would likely push him deeper into the darkness of LBD
As for the former guy, it scares me that he will run again and might win. As long as we have the anti-abortion people he will get votes. That's the main reason the people I know voted for him. Most of them are well educated, aren't racist and would seem like good people if you met them. But again, it's the fact that they were all raised to believe that abortion is the greatest sin ever.
My heart is breaking right now and so many times during the last fours years, I wondered how many tears I would shed before I drowned. But I can't let it over power me because my husband needs me.
So I will cry in the dark and when the sun comes out be thankful I have another day with my husband.
Be safe. Be caring. And tell the people you care about that you love them. You never know when it might be the last time you can.
MTG is a cancer upon the congress, as are the rest of them. Apparently, there is no recourse but elections. Given the gerrymandered districts, they may be re-elected. Perhaps not Moscow Mitch, the base seems to have turned upon him. He and Elaine have probably grifted enough from the country, yes?
I feel delight in the progress of Biden/Harris and despair at the charade of the Congress.
And, as an over-educated RN of 40 years, I'm thinking the virus is with us in altered form for many years to come. "Back to normal" is kind of like back to the future: a fantasy. 'Normal' was not working anyway. If you recall, the plague was with humans for 400 years. Perhaps less than that with mRNA vaccines, but not a quick fix.
I wish it were a rosier picture. I wish it were a rosier future. I fear it is not. Clone Stacey Abrams for every state!
Gratitude to this community for the conversation, sanity, and courage to keep on going!
Members of this forum have tried to warn me that I might be wearing rose-colored glasses (my paraphrasing!) when I express belief that Trump’s influence will diminish. I do know I’ve been doing that. I’ve been sleeping better, listening and reading the news less, and feel more hopeful and positive since January 20, so perhaps cling to the possibility that more Republican office holders will care about their legacies, about posterity, if not for truth and honor.
I know the hard work has just begun, and that hope won’t change CPAC. It won’t change the fact that all the Republicans in the House voted with Marjorie Greene to adjourn today in order to avoid a vote that would make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people. (Twitter users were calling House Republicans “Ganggreene.”). But studies show that positive thinking CAN change or influence outcomes! I know ignoring history and precedent is folly, but I also believe that if all of us imagine—really picture in your mind’s eye—the tide turning against Trump somehow, and against all the election result deniers, that it will be closer to happening.
Maybe someone in Russia will wikileak the dossier with damaging video of Trump.
Maybe he will be caught on tape calling his whole base derogatory names and laughing about the way he manipulates them all.
Maybe Biden’s plans and actions will make lives easier, safer, less stressful, more hope-filled, and the populous will continue to turn away from the Trumpublicans and RepubiQans and power-grubbing, life-sucking, voter-suppressing election result deniers.
Heather’s last story helps me keep hoping that our future has a rosy tint to it. 😊
Trumplicans. I cannot and will never understand how anyone with even minimal critical thinking skills can continue to support 45, and I don't mean the politicians. I mean the public in general, and sadly certain family members and acquaintances. It is a cult. And until it is "cured," this country cannot heal completely. Just so sad and frustrating. We must continue to work together to stay healthy, and support those politicians who are here to serve the common good.
A disturbing report: We're quickly seeing that Trump's true power source is in the states, powered by 2020 success, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei writes:
--Republicans picked up 14 House seats, including a dozen they lost two years earlier. They need +6 in 2022.
--In 2021, Republicans will have full control of the legislative and executive branches in 24 states. --Democrats will have full control of the legislative and executive branch in 15 states.
--"Republicans hold total control of redistricting in 18 states, including Florida, North Carolina and Texas, which are growing in population and expected to gain seats after the 2020 census is tabulated," the N.Y. Times reports (subscription).
--"Some election experts believe the G.O.P. could retake the House in 2022 based solely on gains from newly drawn districts."
--Democrats targeted nine states to flip control and failed in all.
What is the opposition's strategy to overcome this? Surely success of Biden's forward progress, but will that be enough? Honestly, the Republicans are maniacal.
Thank you, HCR, for the reminder of where we were a year ago and wear we are now. A slight silver lining; where would we be if the former president was still in office, by fair means or foul.
Below is a link from today's NY Times OpEd page of a video of ICU nurses in Arizona.
Please, everybody, watch this video. It will not be easy, watch it anyway.
A story today on the front page of The New York Times is headlined 'A new coronavirus variant is spreading in New York, researchers report, and may weaken the effectiveness of vaccines.' The link for this story follows:
Yesterday morning, I had my second vaccine inoculation in Washington Heights, one of the two neighborhoods where variant of Covid-19 (reported in the article) is particularly active.
I have lived with the agony visited upon my hometown, and it continues: 'Risk in your area › New York City, N.Y., is at an extremely high risk level.'
More than 29,000 have died in NYC due to Covid and to Trump. I've lived in four of the five boroughs of the city. Imagine how it feels when neighborhoods you know are losing many people. I will not go on to detail this devouring reality. Our mourning, our sorrow, our fear, our changed lives have deepened our sense of what Trump is.
I cannot as usual launch into a political comment today. I am Jewish, so the BIG LIES, which persist, bring images together from the past, along with the words and deeds of today's monsters in the House, the Senate, state governments and around the corner
In the Letter, Heather noted the attacks on voting access by state governments. You are aware to some degree of how white supremacy has been woven into the fabric of this country. The Civil War is not over. We must all be as active as we can to stem this evil tide. Some moves within our families, schools, houses of worship, communicating with friends and neighbors... Big moves may work for some folks, however, I believe that if we determine to be conscious and engaged citizens in our daily lives, it will make a difference.
“Although Republican lawmakers might not admit publicly that Biden is president, they met with him today in the Oval Office“ - so they publicly deny that he is the legitimate president but meet with him in private?? Then praise the meeting as “very substantive” in the press? Bloody hypocrites!!! You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. Marie Antoinette (anecdotally) discovered that.
The Trump Republic is a return to Reagan’s and Nixon’s and Jefferson Davis’s racist society. If you’re twisting your mind into knots trying to figure out what they’re saying, that is an error. Ignore what they say, it doesn’t make sense anyway. Pay attention to what they do. And that includes Joe Manchin, who seems to have a problem with women and POC. Like the Republicans he is now emulating, he will latch on to any convenient excuse.
In keeping with the Trump Republic philosophy, attack women in political positions. Attack POC in political positions. Oppose women and POC nominees for political positions.
Forget the big lie. Forget voter fraud.
PAY ATTENTION TO ACTIONS. Mitch for example used a convenient excuse to justify voting to acquit. Don’t try to explain it to yourself. It’s an EXCUSE. It’s a COVER STORY. It’s BS. He doesn’t even believe in that technicality, so why should you, an intelligent and informed observer?
Whatever crap excuse they come up with to oppose Tanden and or Haaland, it’s garbage. Don’t believe it. Instead, compare to how they are treating the white male nominees. Compare to the Trump Republic’s platform of going backward to a society where white straight men run the show.
If you’re not viewing the Republicans actions and strategies in the light of keeping a racist and sexist and anti-gay society intact, you’re paying attention to the misdirection and propaganda instead of seeing the main event.
I have read the letter, again a nice historical perspective without rancor or direction, and as of 7 am I read all the comments. Lots of talk about voter suppression and manipulations by Trumps republicans, speculation about the depth of depravity, fears about where we are going BUT not one mention of the For The People Act. I consider myself a political neophyte am I missing something? I read this Act from page one to the end. IT IS the solution to all that rant. Why is it not prominent in the news or in our discussion?
Depression has gotten the better of us for the past few days — and my husband and I are usually upbeat, positive people. Today's Letter offers more great examples of why we should still feel very unsafe in our own country. For us, the stress is higher now than it's ever been. Despite the comforting presence and actions of President Biden, all the squirrelly, manipulative, dishonest, misguided actions taking place throughout our media and system of government make us look at each other and say, "Where is it going to be safe for us to live? Will it ever be again?"
Oh, and we continue to mourn close relationships lost both to the pandemic and to Trumpism. It still feels very much like an ongoing assault (to us), and every single day is like walking through a minefield.
We can at least be glad that tRump no longer has the Twitter bullhorn, and that has been a relief. tRump will be 75 in June, meaning he'll be almost 80 in 2024. I'm certain, given the family history, he will be well into dementia by then. This is the hope I cling to rather than believing we might have to live thru tRump hell a second time.
Looks like this T-Party will go on a little longer than I reckoned. But the walls will close in sooner or later. He's no longer immune and no longer has DOJ on "his" payroll.
I truly don't understand what has happened to the Republican Party. I don't agree with its policies but do believe that it's important that we have different viewpoints and positions in government. However, today's Republican Party stands for nothing other than maintaining or trying to regain power. That's it. It didn't even have a platform for the 2020 election. And, given that over 74 million voters in the Presidential election apparently agreed with this, along with those who gave the party a big bump in seats in the House, that apparently is just fine with its supporters. That does not speak well for the future of democracy in this country.
Anthony Aguero is the type of "conservative" "Republican" that drove my 97-almost-98 year old father from the Republican Party. He voted Democratic for the first time in his life this time around, and was proud when Biden won the election. In his words, "I did not fight in two wars to defend a country that produces this type of politicians and idiocy. I cannot vote for a party that allows this to happen." Rock on, Dad!!!
America is in danger of losing something very important in politics: the concept of a Loyal Opposition. It ensures continuity from one administration to another, particularly through the peaceful transfer of power. Also central is the notion that minority parties can legitimately criticize, even oppose, the government without automatically committing treason or a crime. The origins lie in late 17C England after the "Glorious" Revolution of 1688, as the country moved from the turmoil of the Stuart era into the more stable and prosperous 18C. It actually predates democracy, first functioning to moderate conflict between Court (royal) and Country (parliamentary) aristocratic factions. Gradually it extended to party rivalries and ultimately all kinds of representative government.
Loyal opposition may be codified as in the UK and other Commonwealth countries, or have more the status of tradition as in the US. It can serve as a needed check on government authority, but also to prevent government from exercising any authority. That latter weakness, as exploited by the GOP, is now destabilizing the country in dangerous and unpredictable ways. When the opposition won't accept election results, allow peaceful power transfer, or renounce violence as an instrument of policy, its disloyalty threatens the entire foundation of the nation's political system. In 1861 Lincoln expressed its essence: "We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves." It is essential to know what's at risk before it is gone forever.
(Written mostly from memory, so pardon any errors)
S Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution
J Plumb, The Growth of Political Stability in England
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-loyal-opposition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal_opposition
My heart is breaking and the tears are flowing down my face as I watched that video of those nurses. And now I'm waiting for the heartache to turn to anger as I know it will.
And the fact that I will get angry makes my anger turn into hate, something I don't want to feel but it will come and then my husband will get upset (he's already upset because of my crying and has left the room).
My husband has Lewy Body Dementia. He is 59 years old and has had it for at least ten years. And while he has beaten the odds of averages we know his life will be shortened by this terrible disease.
And that is why my anger comes forth so much. Instead of being able to just enjoy our last days together we have had to immerse ourselves with the news and be aware of all the BS that was happening during the former guys tenure and waste precious time talking about it.
My husband has only left the house once since last March and that was to get an MRI that the doctor insisted on to be able to keep getting his pain meds. His world was already very small, but now it is smaller. He has even stopped going to the dispensary, a place he loved to go to. To talk to them about what he needs and to share pictures of his latest crop and what new thing he has done to make the process easier and more efficient.
And that angers me when I see people without masks.
I try to explain that we aren't worried about him getting covid and dying, he is pretty healty other than the LBD. Its the fact that mentally he wouldn't be able to deal with it.
He got sick a couple years ago. He couldn't function and spent three days sitting on the edge of the bed, rocking back back and forth, while staring at the floor an moaning because he couldn't get the words out to say anything. It was heartbreaking and I swore that my only goal in life is to give him the best life he can have, to play his video games and grow his pot and not worry about anything.
So my anger is starting to rise and I am glad that I don't have to go anywhere today, because I think I would lose it if I saw anyone without a mask.
I think everyone who refuses to wear a mask should 1) use their right to be treated for anything covid related and 2) have to spend a day watching videos like the one I just watched and 3) have to talk to the nurses who are dealing with covid.
But like a lot of things in this country, it seems that we are all to willing to let people off the hook for their bad actions and instead use the words freedom to justify it.
Well you know what, your freedom to be an ahole shouldn't weigh more than my husband's right to be free from the fear of your aholeness causing him to suffer from something that would likely push him deeper into the darkness of LBD
As for the former guy, it scares me that he will run again and might win. As long as we have the anti-abortion people he will get votes. That's the main reason the people I know voted for him. Most of them are well educated, aren't racist and would seem like good people if you met them. But again, it's the fact that they were all raised to believe that abortion is the greatest sin ever.
My heart is breaking right now and so many times during the last fours years, I wondered how many tears I would shed before I drowned. But I can't let it over power me because my husband needs me.
So I will cry in the dark and when the sun comes out be thankful I have another day with my husband.
Be safe. Be caring. And tell the people you care about that you love them. You never know when it might be the last time you can.
MTG is a cancer upon the congress, as are the rest of them. Apparently, there is no recourse but elections. Given the gerrymandered districts, they may be re-elected. Perhaps not Moscow Mitch, the base seems to have turned upon him. He and Elaine have probably grifted enough from the country, yes?
I feel delight in the progress of Biden/Harris and despair at the charade of the Congress.
And, as an over-educated RN of 40 years, I'm thinking the virus is with us in altered form for many years to come. "Back to normal" is kind of like back to the future: a fantasy. 'Normal' was not working anyway. If you recall, the plague was with humans for 400 years. Perhaps less than that with mRNA vaccines, but not a quick fix.
I wish it were a rosier picture. I wish it were a rosier future. I fear it is not. Clone Stacey Abrams for every state!
Gratitude to this community for the conversation, sanity, and courage to keep on going!
Members of this forum have tried to warn me that I might be wearing rose-colored glasses (my paraphrasing!) when I express belief that Trump’s influence will diminish. I do know I’ve been doing that. I’ve been sleeping better, listening and reading the news less, and feel more hopeful and positive since January 20, so perhaps cling to the possibility that more Republican office holders will care about their legacies, about posterity, if not for truth and honor.
I know the hard work has just begun, and that hope won’t change CPAC. It won’t change the fact that all the Republicans in the House voted with Marjorie Greene to adjourn today in order to avoid a vote that would make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people. (Twitter users were calling House Republicans “Ganggreene.”). But studies show that positive thinking CAN change or influence outcomes! I know ignoring history and precedent is folly, but I also believe that if all of us imagine—really picture in your mind’s eye—the tide turning against Trump somehow, and against all the election result deniers, that it will be closer to happening.
Maybe someone in Russia will wikileak the dossier with damaging video of Trump.
Maybe he will be caught on tape calling his whole base derogatory names and laughing about the way he manipulates them all.
Maybe Biden’s plans and actions will make lives easier, safer, less stressful, more hope-filled, and the populous will continue to turn away from the Trumpublicans and RepubiQans and power-grubbing, life-sucking, voter-suppressing election result deniers.
Heather’s last story helps me keep hoping that our future has a rosy tint to it. 😊
Trumplicans. I cannot and will never understand how anyone with even minimal critical thinking skills can continue to support 45, and I don't mean the politicians. I mean the public in general, and sadly certain family members and acquaintances. It is a cult. And until it is "cured," this country cannot heal completely. Just so sad and frustrating. We must continue to work together to stay healthy, and support those politicians who are here to serve the common good.
Thank you, Dr Heather. Rest well. 💜
A disturbing report: We're quickly seeing that Trump's true power source is in the states, powered by 2020 success, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei writes:
--Republicans picked up 14 House seats, including a dozen they lost two years earlier. They need +6 in 2022.
--In 2021, Republicans will have full control of the legislative and executive branches in 24 states. --Democrats will have full control of the legislative and executive branch in 15 states.
--"Republicans hold total control of redistricting in 18 states, including Florida, North Carolina and Texas, which are growing in population and expected to gain seats after the 2020 census is tabulated," the N.Y. Times reports (subscription).
--"Some election experts believe the G.O.P. could retake the House in 2022 based solely on gains from newly drawn districts."
--Democrats targeted nine states to flip control and failed in all.
What is the opposition's strategy to overcome this? Surely success of Biden's forward progress, but will that be enough? Honestly, the Republicans are maniacal.
Thank you, HCR, for the reminder of where we were a year ago and wear we are now. A slight silver lining; where would we be if the former president was still in office, by fair means or foul.
Below is a link from today's NY Times OpEd page of a video of ICU nurses in Arizona.
Please, everybody, watch this video. It will not be easy, watch it anyway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/opinion/covid-icu-nurses-arizona.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
A story today on the front page of The New York Times is headlined 'A new coronavirus variant is spreading in New York, researchers report, and may weaken the effectiveness of vaccines.' The link for this story follows:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/health/coronavirus-variant-nyc.html
Yesterday morning, I had my second vaccine inoculation in Washington Heights, one of the two neighborhoods where variant of Covid-19 (reported in the article) is particularly active.
I have lived with the agony visited upon my hometown, and it continues: 'Risk in your area › New York City, N.Y., is at an extremely high risk level.'
More than 29,000 have died in NYC due to Covid and to Trump. I've lived in four of the five boroughs of the city. Imagine how it feels when neighborhoods you know are losing many people. I will not go on to detail this devouring reality. Our mourning, our sorrow, our fear, our changed lives have deepened our sense of what Trump is.
I cannot as usual launch into a political comment today. I am Jewish, so the BIG LIES, which persist, bring images together from the past, along with the words and deeds of today's monsters in the House, the Senate, state governments and around the corner
In the Letter, Heather noted the attacks on voting access by state governments. You are aware to some degree of how white supremacy has been woven into the fabric of this country. The Civil War is not over. We must all be as active as we can to stem this evil tide. Some moves within our families, schools, houses of worship, communicating with friends and neighbors... Big moves may work for some folks, however, I believe that if we determine to be conscious and engaged citizens in our daily lives, it will make a difference.
“Although Republican lawmakers might not admit publicly that Biden is president, they met with him today in the Oval Office“ - so they publicly deny that he is the legitimate president but meet with him in private?? Then praise the meeting as “very substantive” in the press? Bloody hypocrites!!! You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. Marie Antoinette (anecdotally) discovered that.
The Trump Republic is a return to Reagan’s and Nixon’s and Jefferson Davis’s racist society. If you’re twisting your mind into knots trying to figure out what they’re saying, that is an error. Ignore what they say, it doesn’t make sense anyway. Pay attention to what they do. And that includes Joe Manchin, who seems to have a problem with women and POC. Like the Republicans he is now emulating, he will latch on to any convenient excuse.
In keeping with the Trump Republic philosophy, attack women in political positions. Attack POC in political positions. Oppose women and POC nominees for political positions.
Forget the big lie. Forget voter fraud.
PAY ATTENTION TO ACTIONS. Mitch for example used a convenient excuse to justify voting to acquit. Don’t try to explain it to yourself. It’s an EXCUSE. It’s a COVER STORY. It’s BS. He doesn’t even believe in that technicality, so why should you, an intelligent and informed observer?
Whatever crap excuse they come up with to oppose Tanden and or Haaland, it’s garbage. Don’t believe it. Instead, compare to how they are treating the white male nominees. Compare to the Trump Republic’s platform of going backward to a society where white straight men run the show.
If you’re not viewing the Republicans actions and strategies in the light of keeping a racist and sexist and anti-gay society intact, you’re paying attention to the misdirection and propaganda instead of seeing the main event.
I have read the letter, again a nice historical perspective without rancor or direction, and as of 7 am I read all the comments. Lots of talk about voter suppression and manipulations by Trumps republicans, speculation about the depth of depravity, fears about where we are going BUT not one mention of the For The People Act. I consider myself a political neophyte am I missing something? I read this Act from page one to the end. IT IS the solution to all that rant. Why is it not prominent in the news or in our discussion?
Depression has gotten the better of us for the past few days — and my husband and I are usually upbeat, positive people. Today's Letter offers more great examples of why we should still feel very unsafe in our own country. For us, the stress is higher now than it's ever been. Despite the comforting presence and actions of President Biden, all the squirrelly, manipulative, dishonest, misguided actions taking place throughout our media and system of government make us look at each other and say, "Where is it going to be safe for us to live? Will it ever be again?"
Oh, and we continue to mourn close relationships lost both to the pandemic and to Trumpism. It still feels very much like an ongoing assault (to us), and every single day is like walking through a minefield.
We can at least be glad that tRump no longer has the Twitter bullhorn, and that has been a relief. tRump will be 75 in June, meaning he'll be almost 80 in 2024. I'm certain, given the family history, he will be well into dementia by then. This is the hope I cling to rather than believing we might have to live thru tRump hell a second time.
Looks like this T-Party will go on a little longer than I reckoned. But the walls will close in sooner or later. He's no longer immune and no longer has DOJ on "his" payroll.
I truly don't understand what has happened to the Republican Party. I don't agree with its policies but do believe that it's important that we have different viewpoints and positions in government. However, today's Republican Party stands for nothing other than maintaining or trying to regain power. That's it. It didn't even have a platform for the 2020 election. And, given that over 74 million voters in the Presidential election apparently agreed with this, along with those who gave the party a big bump in seats in the House, that apparently is just fine with its supporters. That does not speak well for the future of democracy in this country.