Shite. What is the pithy, "sum up" line this morning?
We are in the clutches of the worst human beings imaginable.
Deal with that good people. The worst amongst us are "in charge," & sliming the rest of us. Every damn day. There will be future elections, pretty sure. A major house-cleaning will be essential.
From Lawyers, Guns & Money, there's this:
Commenter Brandunaware on some important secondary effects of living among the Trumpers:
And this:
Adding to my befuddlement is the fact that he’s every single stereotype of a loathsome shitheel from the last one hundred years of popular culture, all at once—the ignorant blowhard at the end of the bar, the entitled silver spoon trust fund asshole, the clueless boss who does nothing but create crises for his employees to clean up, the lecherous old man, the vapid self-important celebrity, the penny pinching miser who stiffs the honest working man, the oily corrupt politician, the cowardly bully, the draft-dodging faux-patriot, the scumbag crook who gets off on a technicality. He’s almost literally every repugnant trope from generations of literature, movies, and TV shows.
This is the man— the clown, the ignoramous—who ends our Republic?
