Thursday, February 4, 2021
You're Welcome part 3
I try to be humble but credit where credit is do, right? Donald Trump, the candidate I supported in 2016 on the grounds that he would usher in radical change, has in fact torn conservatism asunder. Is it the revolution? No, not yet. But the malignant force that is movement conservatism is seriously wounded, perhaps fatally, by the crazt grifter and has been demonstrated, you simply have to have the nerve to give these people enough rope. It is a key strategy of judo that resistance can take the form of bending, of being willing to flow with the chaos and turn the enemie's energy to your advantage.
And so this ideological project is slowly, eventually engulfed and annihilated by its own contradictions. You don't want to be the party of fiscal restraint in a pandemic/climate crisis. Suffering people don't want to hear that there is no money, they don't want to hear about moral hazard and tightening belts, not after watching trillion upon trillion printed to save the banks. Trump could bluff and con and distract- but only for so long. And now his syncophants and acolytes are running on fumes. QAnon is not a plan, not policy or a platform.
This is not to say the Democrats are now in the catbird seat. It's not a question of if, but when, this shitshow takes everybody down. I'm still waiting for my 2019 tax refund. They have vaccinated .08 of the population and they are running out of coffins. The sporting goods stores are limiting ammunition sales because production can't keep up with demand.
Our job then is to highten these contradictions. Sell Marjorie Taylor Greene sex dolls, complete with AR15s. Invite Trump to MC the Academy Awards. Get creative.
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