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— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) October 26, 2025
Both of these posts are on the same Twitter feed."The president is working very hard to make sure we won't have free, fair, and lawful elections anymore" is the sort of statement that sounds histrionic to people who are careful to avoid ever hearing anything Trump has to say on the subject. pic.twitter.com/URLOsqyMkq
— Andrew Egger (@EggerDC) October 26, 2025
So the 12 year olds are going to take over the country? Is this the script for the Goonies sequel that never got made? Can someone please explain to me how this would actually happen, without resort to a scenario that sounds too far-fetched for a Netflix series? (I mean, I get a kick out of “The Diplomat,” but put that one up against “House Full of Dynamite,” and the former is just pure fantasy. Then again, so was “The West Wing,” and a lot of people acted like that was a documentary.)
Maybe I should just write off all political punditry as a class as failed fantasy writers who desperately want to be Cassandras living in interesting times. The majority seems to clearly have no better grasp of the national electoral process than Trump does. Which is just as scary, in its own way.
Anyone with a lick of imagination can come up with doomsday scenarios about the election itself, but mine is more along the lines of "January 6, only this time it's the liberals/normies marching to the Capitol, and Trump sends the troops right over"
ReplyDeleteI don't like being weird about it but Mike Johnson is no Mike Pence.
And *then* I roll myself back to "three years away- lots can change"
Pretty sure in 3 years Trump’s going to be an even older and more decrepit man than he is now. And even less popular. Presidents don’t usually rise in popularity, they just win in incumbency. But Bannon is not a genius political prognosticator, and three more years of government by Stephen Miller is not likely to sit well. Aside from the fact the country is pretty comfortable with two terms and out.
ReplyDeleteBut the problem with the future is, nobody lives there yet. Which puts the Cassandra’s in perspective, too. Anybody still remember the immediate dire consequences they said were gonna flow from something done in March? Or June? I mean “end of the Republic is NOW!” warnings. I’ll just keep my powder dry, and worry about the consequences of bad Supreme Court rulings, like law school taught me to do.
yeah, I have a lot of worries/concerns but there are too many moving parts for anyone to really game out this whole mess. I don't seriously try.
ReplyDeleteThe Eschaton comment section could be pretty doom-y and I remember one time in particular you said something along the lines of "the problems of the past seem less scary than our present times only because we know how they resolved. The people living through what we think of as settled history had no more idea how things would turn out than we do now". Probably a lot more cleanly written. I always appreciated that- it's been a useful thing to keep in mind.