Just another nerd.
We are fortunate that Trump is as incompetent at leading a coup as he is everything else he’s done in his life.
The next wannabe dictator may be a bit more intelligent, and Trump has clearly laid out a blueprint for how to go about obliterating democratic norms and institutions.
This is truly the one thing I do not understand about Donald Trump. Look at one of his campaign’s attorneys, Jenna Ellis, for example.
In 2016, Ellis wrote a Facebook post saying,
I could spend a full-time job just responding to the ridiculously illogical, inconsistent, and blatantly stupid arguments supporting Trump. But here’s the thing: his supporters DON’T CARE about facts or logic. They aren’t seeking truth,” she wrote in March 2016. “Trump probably could shoot someone in the middle of NYC and not lose support. And this is the cumulative reason why this nation is in such terrible shape: We don’t have truth seekers; we have narcissists.
Yet four years later, there she is trying to help Donald Trump overturn the results of an election telling reporters,
Your question is fundamentally flawed when you’re asking ‘where’s the evidence’?
What is it about the boorish orange oaf that makes people abandon their principles and integrity so completely?
On November 15, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the reimposition of COVID-19 related restrictions as cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from the disease continue to mount in the state.
That prompted White House coronavirus advisor Scott Atlas to tweet,
The sad thing is that the Trump administration’s irresponsible actions in general, and Scott Atlas’s in particular, have helped make this new round of restrictions necessary.
Rather than push for and assist with measures that could have made it easier to keep COVID-19 better under control, such as widespread testing and use of masks, Atlas has opposed both. As a result, the time and space we gained from the initial lockdown in March and April were squandered by the Trump administration’s ignorance and lies.
Instead of science-based policy recommendations and actions, all Atlas has is incendiary rhetoric whose result will almost certainly be more death and disease than otherwise would have been the case.
These people act like some Hollywood stereotype of a nutty televangelist family.
