All the experts said Trump was impossible. Warnings to the contrary that Trump wasn't just possible but that the GOP had spent decades making sure that something like Trump was inevitable were dismissed as alarmist Lefty crackpottery.
Trump was impossible. It was gonna be Rubio. So it was perfectly safe to let the GOP freakshow and the complicit Both Siderist media to just go doing what they had been doing for decades.
And then Trump happened.
And it was bad. Terrifying. Our democracy took a huge hit. A democracy that had already been weakened by eight years of Bush regime incompetence and disaster, eight more years of reactionary, racist GOP sabotage during the Obama years.
But we white-knuckled our way through it and out of it.
And then, just as they did immediately after the Bush administration, waaay too many powerful people in the media and in politics began immediately pretending that the danger from the Right had once again passed. That the system had worked! Yay!
Which means it's now safe for the GOP freakshow and the complicit Both Siderist media to go back to doing things the way they've always done them.
And then...
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