I see Drumph as an accelerant. He didn't start the fire - it's been burning ever since the Civil War, and the GOP has been exploiting white grievance and fear of losing unearned privilege for decades - but he did spray a firehose of gasoline onto it. I think you're right that we have a long way yet to go. The combination of racism, anti-intellectualism, and isolationism/xenophobia is a powerfully toxic brew that can't be easily neutralized.
The task is made dramatically harder by the anti-democratic elements of our political system, which have developed over time into tyranny by a poorly educated, easily exploited minority. I'm still hopeful that the republic can survive, but it is daunting to think that even after the disaster of Drumph, we have only a tiny sliver of a majority over the party of frigging QAnon and autocracy.
I concur 🙂
I want the closure...it’s been a nightmare. I feel some of the weight leaving my shoulders now that this shit-stained clown has been voted out.
Lots of work to be done...it won’t be perfect. I hope this country can breath a sigh of relief, if not for a moment or two.
I see Drumph as an accelerant. He didn't start the fire - it's been burning ever since the Civil War, and the GOP has been exploiting white grievance and fear of losing unearned privilege for decades - but he did spray a firehose of gasoline onto it. I think you're right that we have a long way yet to go. The combination of racism, anti-intellectualism, and isolationism/xenophobia is a powerfully toxic brew that can't be easily neutralized.
The task is made dramatically harder by the anti-democratic elements of our political system, which have developed over time into tyranny by a poorly educated, easily exploited minority. I'm still hopeful that the republic can survive, but it is daunting to think that even after the disaster of Drumph, we have only a tiny sliver of a majority over the party of frigging QAnon and autocracy.