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Positive Thoughts For Disillusioned Trump Supporters
Bad news, MAGA, it’s increasingly looking like you’re going to have to eat some crow in the coming months as you come to realize your hero has more in common with Moe Howard than Albert Einstein or Dudley Do-Right. It’s looking a lot like one of those Three Stooges shorts, where they’re plumbers who are called to fix a leaky sink, or carpenters sent to build a staircase, or chefs who are supposed to cater some high society social event. It’s been less than three months, but the administration’s shortcomings are already becoming hard to deny. There has been no peace deal done in Ukraine and there are lot of frightened grandmothers who aren’t sure if their social security check is going to be deposited.
Internationally, it is safe to say our list of allies grows thin. While it might work to say one person or one nation is taking advantage of the relationship it has with you, when you say everybody or every country in the world is taking advantage of you, you start to lose credibility. And Donald Trump has said this about virtually every country in the world. Now it could be they are indeed all out to take advantage of the United States, but as a resident of a madhouse once said “They called me crazy and I said ‘no, you’re the ones who are crazy,’ but they outnumbered me. At some point, if you ever want to get out of the nuthouse, you’re going to have to…