re: #122 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area. Trumpworld remains in chaos, with added trade war craziness thrown in.

Kelly’s supposedly being cut out from decision making, which means he’s toast and doesn’t quite know it yet. Trump thinks he’s the smartest in the room and isn’t taking advice from anyone - no matter who it is, unless they’re on tv telling him what to do.

This is an administration in chaos and presenting a clear and present danger to the nation - Trump is a mortal threat - and the GOP continues enabling this nut because he’s not only their nut, but because Trump’s policies are their policies.

Trump wants to gut the function of government and ruin federal departments, agencies, and programs, so the GOP can turn around and claim that government is failing and we need to stop funding failing government programs. It’s a self-fulfilling action/loop, and the GOP are taking advantage of it while they can.

Take just the trade war talk. He claims you can win it easily (you cant’). Then he claims we’ve already lost the trade war (I’m guessing here he thinks because we have a trade imbalance that means there was a trade war that we lost - but that’s not what any of that means). But his solution is to launch an entirely new and more destructive trade war that will cost American consumers more than they’ll see in tax breaks this year.

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The GOP refuses to stop Trump. That means it’s up to Democrats to retake Congress in November with overwhelming turnout nationwide to make sure that the GOP are booted at every level of government to try and begin to repair the damage they’re doing to the nation.

My film group met Wednesday night to discuss “Death of Stalin”, a very black comedy banned in Russia. Certain members who were in a Northwestern University extension program reported that the class unanimously expressed their distaste and contempt for Trump. They assumed that Trump will be history and our nation will return to its “normal” operation, probably in 2020. They thought of him as a buffoon.

I am torn between the doom-and-gloomers who preach we will not recover from the damage he has done and that the GOP attacks on our institutions have fatally damaged us and the optimists who believe that there will be a blue wave in 2018, that in fact the Trump interlude will inflict permanent damage on the Republican brand, and our country will emerge stronger because we have looked into the abyss and rejected it.