nobody likes sounding hysterical in public, but everyone who urged calm about a then-impending first Trump term because they were predicting it wouldn’t be That bad, on every possible metric of actions, policy, conduct, and death tolls, they were thunderously, catastrophically wrong…
I think they want to keep believing that anything coming out of the Trump camp is hyperbole, because to realize that's not hyperbole is the have to come to terms with just how dangerous the Trump camp is. Problem is that it is not, in fact, hyperbole and the Trump camp is, in fact, very dangerous.
…There is one guy I truly deeply respect who predicted to me a second Trump term wouldn’t be as bad as liberals were predicting and all I could say was: if we rewound the clock to 2017 and I just wrote on a sheet of paper to you what happened (no hyperbole or commentary, just what occurred) in his…
I'll take my L for that. I would have wagered a paycheck that he'd have gotten bored with the whole thing in a week and spent the next four years golfing and holding the occasional state dinner, letting some behind-the-curtain coalition of grownups actually run things.
I was wrong af.