"For the first time in the more than eight years that he has dominated our politics, America—and the rest of the world—is coming to terms with the idea that Donald Trump might really mean it," writes @sbg1.bsky.social https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trumps-uncertainty-doctrine
What the F*CK was your first clue?
The will to believe otherwise is a sad truth about human nature that a cynic such as Trump has learned to exploit. Hope may not be a strategy, but it remains a default setting. The President’s doublespeak, his purposeful confusion and endless equivocations about how seriously to take his pronouncements, don’t only serve to keep doors open and to maintain plausible deniability; they provide cover to those looking for a way to support his unsupportable actions. I think part of what seems so drastic and different about Trump 2.0 is not the radicalism of his agenda but that he is moving so quickly to act on it. It has become harder and harder to rationalize his words away as merely the empty posturings of an accidental President. For the first time in the more than eight years that he has dominated our politics, America—and the rest of the world—is coming to terms with the idea that Donald Trump might really mean it.No shit, Sherlock. 🙄
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