cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I bear witness to these things with (I imagine) a similar horror to yours. I agree that they need to break with his policies of naked hatred. In fact, a healthy party would never have enabled his hunger games in the first place.Yeah, I know it's not actually time but it is high time that they realize the abusive relationship has drifted from a few harsh words to a suffocating endurance of threats and increasingly worse trips to the hospital when he completely lets loose. At first they could pass it off as if he didn't really mean to do it and it won't happen again but now, after all that's happened, they simply can't say it was just a joke or a mistake. He really means to hurt them.
I can't say that I was ever close to them but it's getting hard to see them lose their own self esteem over something that is only going to get worse. So, now he's clearly dragging them down with them. He seems intent to avoid living in the bottom of the pit he's dug himself into by standing on their dead bodies.
I mean, this is downright abusive:
Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: ‘Please blame it on me’
The Republican front-runner slams bipartisan talks in the Senate for a deal as Biden calls for emergency authority to address surging crossings
This could have been a good day for Republican Senators. They could have achieved much that seemed out of reach before now. Trump just told them they can't have nice things.
So I too conclude that it’ll get worse before it gets better. We live in a time that is more politically adrift than any since the war over slavery. Even 1968 does not compare.
My single driving hope is that we have a republic at the end of it. We can come out stronger once this lawless destructive cycle has bottomed. Those Federalist Society justices won’t be there forever.
And perhaps, more wishfully, we can shatter and dispose of the atavistic idea that this nation is at its core a libertarian capitalistic evangelical etc. patriarchy.