ToMAYto … ToMAHto
The more the Democratic Party fails to match the intensity of Trump’s challenge to American democracy, the more it risks becoming complicit in the erosion of democratic norms.
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The more the Democratic Party fails to match the intensity of Trump’s challenge to American democracy, the more it risks becoming complicit in the erosion of democratic norms.
In the end, Atlantic City wasn’t just a casualty of bad business. It was a reminder that hype, no matter how dazzling, always has an expiration date.
I’m not disillusioned because Harris lost. I’m disillusioned because we lost. We lost the fight to keep this country from devolving into a grotesque parody of its former self.
We elected a shameless demagogue who peddles lies and hatred like they’re candy at a parade. I thought we were better than this. Maybe we were. But it sure as hell doesn’t look that way now.
The collective American psyche, already worn down by years of fractured political rhetoric, social media pandemonium, and an economy that can only be described as a cruel joke for the common man, had finally reached the boiling point. The solution? Donald Trump. Again.
Trump’s language is a cacophony of bravado and aggression, punctuated by that familiar sneer that seems to suggest he’s just one tweet away from inciting a riot.