Ah, I should let idyllic be the enemy of demonstrable progress, better should suffer at the hands of perfect?
1. When? The admin has bent over backwards to legitimately challenge courts grotesque overreaches and separation of powers boundaries. When treading questionable ground, they returned the terrorist simp, known fondly as the Maryland man, for example. To act as though he's standing in defiance of the court against any circumstance; that is not true.
2. He's rightfully challenging birthright citizenship through the court and it's simmering there. Because something has become accepted practice does not mean it is constitutionally lawful. Thus far, there is a conversation re: circumstances under which habeas corpus may be legitimately suspended, such as invasion. I would say that because the last admin allowed invasion via dereliction of duty, we have been invaded.
3. I'll put the concerns I listed above spending, everyday. For example, a functioning education system could go a long way to illuminating the debt problem, which neither party is a good shepherd of.
4. To claim the police state has gotten worse since inauguration is baffling. You're literally witnessing - at the highest levels as the admin is releasing dirt on our intel and vaunted law enforcement agencies - the attempt to put the malevolent genie in the bottle.
5. & 6. Bessent gave insight into the approach with China recently but even so, I think we (the public) are not privy to the China strategy, nor the totality of the tariff strategy which is far more than tariffs. There is a hubris and a sense of entitlement while holding an information pipeline in our hot little hands, that urges us to be the first to make authoritative declarations and be informed of what is essentially a strategy of national security. I understand the urge afflicting some/many, but I'm fine waiting to see things develop that not a single expert on this forum could begin to legitimately posture about. It's performative forum art.
Yeah, I use to waste votes on libertarians, too, and even a Dem here or there. F*** that. Best bet is to change the party most closely affiliated with the rule of law and American values. That clearly isn't the party that's been putting socialists in office for decades when they lie even as taking oath of office. You simply cannot be a Marxist offshoot of any stripe and protect and defend the Constitution. It's a disgrace we even allow it and stupid to think the Constitution demands we commit national suicide by inserting citizen enemies. We used to marginalize Marxists; we should resume.
In this moment, Trump is the change agent who single-handedly reformed the entire party of Neo-cons, flaccid conservatives with no iron and no allegiance beyond their office, and made new domestic political alliances. Orthodoxy brought us to this precipice; he is definitely not that. It is a national sea change, and I simply don't care that some are discomfited by it.
. People who think that's about nazism are just mental.
