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I don't have much to say except it's disappointing how Americans are bound to precedents. Well, not just them, of course, everyone is hidebound but you'd expect more from a brand new intelligently designed super-innovative superpower. And yet, escalating cycle of the culture of victimhood, Plucky Underdogs and Just Revenge (look at the pathetic whataboutism, "Democrats did X, so how can X' be wrong?), this damn geriatric nonsense about fascism, endless epicycles around Jewish WWII trauma, the whole moral arc of the universe wrapped around that European event three generations ago, much like in Russia.
Trumpism is wrong on its own merits. Trump is a dishonorable Latin American type strongman who does petty advertisement, lashes out childishly, takes bribes, doesn't keep his word and relishes crass bootlicking. His appointees like Hegseth and Lutnick are mere thugs. The Based Conservatives here demonstrate craven allegiance to whatever the Party Linei s this week because they see in Trump not so much a reformer as their champion in getting revenge on Democrats. As for the Democrats' party, enough has been said. Is this the Elite Human Capital that is equipped to lead the global hegemon? It's a deeply diseased Republic and too good a Democracy, and it's stuck in the past even as it innovates new ways to be vulgar and demonstrate spiritually third worldist attitude. Just sad.
"I don't have much to say except it's disappointing how Americans are bound to precedents."
Lefty Damage Mag put this humorously: "Can We Have New Bad Things?": https://www.damagemag.com/p/can-we-have-new-bad-things
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