This is a well-written piece. You have given the American people something to hang onto during the immediate insanity. The history of the ‘Falls from Grace’ provides the support. When the day comes, it’s not only the people of the U.S. that will be cheering, but also the world, minus a few authoritarian despots of course.
This is superb. The serpentine slithering of Lindsey Graham, between barely plausible deniability and Goebbelsean big fibbing, is not a consequence of self-deception. Graham, like all the professional politicians in the Republican Party, doesn't believe a word of the great election steal conspiracy. He also knows that if he reprises his true character assessment of Trump from early in the 2016 campaign ('a kook') he'd lose a lot more than invitations to Trump gold games. In short order would come death threats, probable legal prosecution from Trump's private law firm, the Department of Justice,and the senator would become an immediate unperson, similar to defenestrated stooge Majorie Taylor Green. LIke the Fox News editorial line before the legal roof collapsed on it, Graham has a public stance and a private knowledge, a line he can and does walk with cynical impunity. He knows that membership in the cult requires the sort of elastic ethics that sees an attempted insurrection as a day of love. A dear departed senate friend's life and career becomes something not worth defending in the face of full throated character assassination by the Dear Leader. Facts are not fixed and immutable to Graham, but subject to change not just after policy reviews but in mid sentence. Graham is an emblematic enabler, one fully aware that Trump's claims are not convictions but tactics. A reality television host doesn't have to believes the script, only if the show stays ahead in the ratings. Does Trump believe that he defeated Hillary Clinton in the popular vote in 2016, that he could only lose an election in which he was the candidate if it was rigged, that millions of his votes were not counted in 2020? It's really beside the point. The old fraudster may or may not have ingested his own spin. But like the velociraptor learning to open doors in Jurassic Park, he's learned how to get into the American psyche, with scattergun, unparsable statements that are tactical - to curb reason, make rational debate impossible and bring frenzy to the act of voter decision making. Lindsey Graham has been easily bought. He is a politician for whom career management is his career. He's happy to be part of the project of sowing the hydra's teeth of suspicion, rage and cynicism for political exploitation. Trump lies to raise anxiety levels, which can be exploited to justify his extremist agenda. Graham lies for cheap stakes - to keep open his access to the drug of power. I predict he will be one of the national front men in Trump's next attempt to subvert an election this November, heading off a Democrat recapture of the house by discovering a dark conspiracy of voter fraud, justifying federal seizure of ballot boxes, a voiding of the count in seats won by Democrats, and handing over appointment to contested congressional seats to Republican controlled state legislatures. The Supreme Court will find what it wants in the constitution to justify the action, at a wild guess by a margin of 6 - 3, making another non-binding ruling like their 2000 gifting of the presidency to Bush. And we are only one year in.
Thank you for this. Lindsey Graham (especially after seeing him on AirForce One giggling with glee over Trump's attack on Venezuela) is just as disgusting and despicable as Trump.
If so many in Republican leadership know Trump is delusional, why do they allow him to remain in office? They’re all collaborators in an authoritarian takeover.
This is a well-written piece. You have given the American people something to hang onto during the immediate insanity. The history of the ‘Falls from Grace’ provides the support. When the day comes, it’s not only the people of the U.S. that will be cheering, but also the world, minus a few authoritarian despots of course.
And do they also approve that Trump wants to cancel future elections?
CORRECTION: Georgia's governor is Brian Kemp, not Jack Kemp.
This is superb. The serpentine slithering of Lindsey Graham, between barely plausible deniability and Goebbelsean big fibbing, is not a consequence of self-deception. Graham, like all the professional politicians in the Republican Party, doesn't believe a word of the great election steal conspiracy. He also knows that if he reprises his true character assessment of Trump from early in the 2016 campaign ('a kook') he'd lose a lot more than invitations to Trump gold games. In short order would come death threats, probable legal prosecution from Trump's private law firm, the Department of Justice,and the senator would become an immediate unperson, similar to defenestrated stooge Majorie Taylor Green. LIke the Fox News editorial line before the legal roof collapsed on it, Graham has a public stance and a private knowledge, a line he can and does walk with cynical impunity. He knows that membership in the cult requires the sort of elastic ethics that sees an attempted insurrection as a day of love. A dear departed senate friend's life and career becomes something not worth defending in the face of full throated character assassination by the Dear Leader. Facts are not fixed and immutable to Graham, but subject to change not just after policy reviews but in mid sentence. Graham is an emblematic enabler, one fully aware that Trump's claims are not convictions but tactics. A reality television host doesn't have to believes the script, only if the show stays ahead in the ratings. Does Trump believe that he defeated Hillary Clinton in the popular vote in 2016, that he could only lose an election in which he was the candidate if it was rigged, that millions of his votes were not counted in 2020? It's really beside the point. The old fraudster may or may not have ingested his own spin. But like the velociraptor learning to open doors in Jurassic Park, he's learned how to get into the American psyche, with scattergun, unparsable statements that are tactical - to curb reason, make rational debate impossible and bring frenzy to the act of voter decision making. Lindsey Graham has been easily bought. He is a politician for whom career management is his career. He's happy to be part of the project of sowing the hydra's teeth of suspicion, rage and cynicism for political exploitation. Trump lies to raise anxiety levels, which can be exploited to justify his extremist agenda. Graham lies for cheap stakes - to keep open his access to the drug of power. I predict he will be one of the national front men in Trump's next attempt to subvert an election this November, heading off a Democrat recapture of the house by discovering a dark conspiracy of voter fraud, justifying federal seizure of ballot boxes, a voiding of the count in seats won by Democrats, and handing over appointment to contested congressional seats to Republican controlled state legislatures. The Supreme Court will find what it wants in the constitution to justify the action, at a wild guess by a margin of 6 - 3, making another non-binding ruling like their 2000 gifting of the presidency to Bush. And we are only one year in.
Thank you for this. Lindsey Graham (especially after seeing him on AirForce One giggling with glee over Trump's attack on Venezuela) is just as disgusting and despicable as Trump.
If they all knew how demented he is they are all subject to blame.
If so many in Republican leadership know Trump is delusional, why do they allow him to remain in office? They’re all collaborators in an authoritarian takeover.