07-07-2022, 11:44 PM
I do not predict the direction of polling results, but something is extremely different about this midterm election than about any of the prior ones. Donald Trump casts a huge shadow that President Biden can erase only with the tiny flashlight that he has been granted.
This said, the GOP is still tied closely, in all but a few cases, to Donald Trump and increasingly to crimes of abuse of power that he committed in the name of the power of his Party. Add to this, Trump's Supreme Court acts in its majorities as if it is a cell of the John Birch Society in its decisions on reproductive rights and the responsibilities of police, and who knows what is next. It's going to take much more than a little perfume to remove the stench of Donald Trump.
This said, the GOP is still tied closely, in all but a few cases, to Donald Trump and increasingly to crimes of abuse of power that he committed in the name of the power of his Party. Add to this, Trump's Supreme Court acts in its majorities as if it is a cell of the John Birch Society in its decisions on reproductive rights and the responsibilities of police, and who knows what is next. It's going to take much more than a little perfume to remove the stench of Donald Trump.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.