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"Yes. It’s horrible. Everything is horrible. But this Gaetz nomination (along with the other two) may finally convince people that Trump really is the menace to America that Democrats and never-Trumpers have been warning he was. There may be no better person than Gaetz to convince the Republicans who hate him how poor Trump’s judgment is."
~ Marcy Wheeler
Let's hope. Let's hope that the chaos Trump is inducing, his attempt to break the government and expose it to ridicule — serving Putin's wildest dreams — shows many of us including some Republicans who a clown show he runs.
I have my doubts, though, that his supporters will see any of this anytime soon. I doubt, frankly, that the chaos they've willingly helped set in motion, which will immiserate them along with their "enemies," will open their eyes.
Helping to usher in a fascist regime, as many Germans did in the Nazi period, inevitably leads to chaos, rubble, destruction — including for the very people who made the decision to help the process.
But getting people to see the folly of their very stupid, blind choices even when everything is in rubble around them: that's not easy.
I have German friends who were children during WWII.
Several of them tell me that getting their parents, other elders, friends of that generation, to acknowledge that they made a colossal mistake in colluding with the Nazis was never possible. Their parents and elders could not and would not admit that they had made horrible choices even when the error of their ways was glaringly obvious in the destroyed nation all around them.
I'm sure it will be the same in the US. Many families and friendships will be destroyed, as they should be if one person is a horrible human.
"getting their parents, other elders, friends of that generation, to acknowledge that they made a colossal mistake in colluding with the Nazis was never possible. Their parents and elders could not and would not admit that they had made horrible choices even when the error of their ways was glaringly obvious in the destroyed nation..."
@Greengordon It's interesting how many stories we're now reading of parents disinviting children — sons seem to predominate — from holiday dinners because they voted for Trump, isn't it?
It is interesting, and sad. Many of those disinvited will never understand, or at least will pretend not to. A civil war divides a nation....
@wdlindsy@toad.social@Greengordon Yes, and there can be wars not even fought with guns and bombs, too.