How Much Ego-Serving Cataclysm Must MAGA Trumpism Wreak -- Before Fierce Adversaries Resist?

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How Much Ego-Serving Cataclysm Must MAGA Trumpism Wreak — Before Fierce Adversaries Resist?
by Robert Becker | January 18, 2026 - 5:54am

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What stands out right now are two painful insights: 1) that a perverse, sadistic president can pulverize whatever he touches; and 2) worse still, that legal, cultural, political and structural stop signs are tinpot trifles. How much damage occurs before a critical mass snarls loudly enough to impede the barrage?

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Limitless debacles writ large

The low points of the Trump Disintegration Syndrome (the real TDS), dripping with symbolism, are two dramatic calamities without demonstrable positives: the infamy of DOGE and the pulverizing of the WH’s East Wing sans input, planning or foresight. The DOGE disgrace, run by the most clueless anti-government “consultant” in history, first destroyed Congressionally-mandated, structurally-critical agencies, willy-nilly exiling career experts, before having to spend billions reinstating irreplaceable talent. Never were more billions and gross misdirection squandered with more stupidity and pointless waste. A close second, the East Wing fiasco epitomizes TDD – Trump Derangement Derangement, where the “people’s house” was plundered, then carted away as if a decrepit cow shed. Presidents should get impeached for less. Who recklessly violates American history on a whim – without real-world consensus – and escapes getting pilloried afterwards? No Demolition Derby better dramatizes Trump’s self-serving, gold veneer-loving contempt for other Americans. Per Sidney Blumenthal, the Guardian, “schlock and awe.”

Domestically, MAGA Trump now invokes the worst drunk at the church Christmas party, careening recklessly, smashing tables and chairs, terrorizing the shocked bystanders, leaving broken platters and splattered ketchup. As with all things MAGA Trump, culprits sneak out the back or rig the results, and adults must clean up, pay for damages and nurse the traumatized. Nor has any foreign realm improved. Not Ukraine, worse, with more unimpeded (indeed, encouraged) brutality from Russia. Not Gaza, worse, with more unimpeded (indeed, encouraged) brutality from Israel. Canada, Venezuela, Greenland (Denmark and the EU) are wisely firming up borders and readying their special forces to resist threats of invasion.

MAGA destruction is, like the universe, seemingly infinite. Not only are immigrants, legal and law-abiding, or innocent bystanders indiscriminately kidnapped, beat up or shot but the outlaws are sneering gestapo types oblivious to legal and civil rights protected since the Bill of Rights. Destruction is in fact accelerating, too fast and furiously for stunned corrective forces to respond in kind. While ICE represents the most visible, homeland abuses, globally millions now dread being pummeled by US missiles, threats or trade mayhem.

Could the flood of abuses be more obvious?

What happens now? Is there a threshold so onerous those who defend reason, justice and morality must rise up and say “Enough. Enough destruction, enough injury, enough death, enough warring against citizens.” The bullying, the refusal to respect any limits to MAGA presumptions, could not be more obvious. And the solution is equally so: organized bullies will rampage until stopped by greater forces, whether physical or legal or moral. Will it take an unthinkable invasion of NATO allies to bestir spineless GOPers to join long-delayed House impeachment proceedings? Is that what impeachment takes – ignoring all agreements and aggressing against former friends (of which Denmark is unparalleled)? Will only the prospect of dead GIs, killed by defending NATO/European forces, move the needle and break the jinx? Must America imitate genocidal Russian or Israeli militarism to bestir Rethug lackeys to preserve what’s left of democratic checks and balances?

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1. Doge wasn't there to root out "waste and fraud",

it was there to shut or gut any agencies that were investigating trump and musk. Anything else that got gutted or shut down were under the umbrella of the original agency.