This almost complete degradation of our educational system. The advent and rise of social media. The complicity of mainstream media which also promotes mindless consumerism. All of this and more have made this much more than a flirt with authoritarianism.

I am not sure we can pull ourselves out of this until things get much worse.

What peaceful resistance do you think will work? He wants to foment gunplay somewhere so he can declare martial law and stop any further elections. He almost lost his mind when Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s constitution does not allow elections during war. He wants that legislation passed here.

What scares me is that I don’t think peaceful resistance will work. Unless he dies and the few somewhat sane Republicans do something to stop this madness.

My fear is he does die and we end up with Vance who is just an evil puppet boy for the oligarchs.

He is, but he has the charisma of a dead fish.

The good news is the MAGA cult can’t operate without its cult figurehead. They will not coalesce around Vance. Some will but not most. Then there will be tons of Trump wannabes who try to take up his station. That is what we must prevent.

Flirt was a metaphor because it would take too many characters to describe the 4-5 times it has happened since 1760.