Blah, blah, blah. Words, words, words. Digital ink spilled by the e-bucket telling us how terrible Trump and how he's destroying America.
Except that all thinking people know that already and don't necessarily need to be reminded. (Although this is a good, well-written summary of Trump's evil.)
Sullivan says that democracy is folding. He's wrong, although not by a lot. Democracy has not yet folded. The Republican Party has folded. Conservatism has folded. Those directly targeted by Trump have folded. But democracy still has a chance although the odds are looking worse by the day.
And if democracy is to survive, it will have to be conservatives and Republicans who step up to save it. Democrats are a minority party in our government and don't have the numbers to do anything except offer significant assistance on their own. It will need to be both Republicans leaders and rank-and-file Republican Senators & Representatives who decide to put country over party and, in some cases, country over their own careers in order to pull us back from the end of democracy in this country. It will have to be Republican donors and "media" who tell the masses it's ok to oppose Trump because he's an evil tyrant and it will have to, ultimately, be Republican voters who end his reign at the ballot box.
So, at this juncture, I don't really care to read another conservative tell me how bad things are; I can see that with my own eyes and hear it with my own ears. What I need is a Republican who can convince other Republicans to actually put actions to their concerns and get those in the Republican Party to put a stop to Trump. Anything else is from these panicked conservatives is, to borrow a phrase, "a tale told by an intellectual, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".
To Sullivan's credit he did give me my first full belly laugh of the day. To have the ability to type this and not be so embarrassed as to immediately delete it was strikingly funny to me:
"Conservatism is prudent, diligent care for the inheritance of the past, and the shepherding of constitutional democratic governance away from the shoals of dysfunction and ideology."
And then to follow it up with this absolutely sent me over the edge:
"conservatives killing the Constitution they love..."
In an article where the author complains about the mendacity of the leader of the Republican Party, for a conservative to try to sneak those whoppers by us is unintentional satire of the highest level.
