It does, completely.

Republicans are trying to amass as much money and power as possible before society breaks down from global warming (which they secretly believe in but don't want others to believe in) and civil unrest. They think they can "ride it out" while the rest of the world destroys itself.

We need to create an environment where good officers don't even want to be

near bad cops. Somehow we need to incentivize good cops to turn in bad cops. The unions often stand in the way of that, as you point out, by creating an environment where they run to the defense of bad officers and shame anyone who criticizes law enforcement, no matter how bad what they've done is.

Instead of there being repercussions and stigmatization for turning a bad cop in, there should be rewards for turning a bad cop in.

The Grumpy Princess sings a song for Trump: "You're an Asshole"

This is actually from 2017, but it's funny.

It's daunting to think about.

Biden should do one gigantic Executive Order that simply undoes all of Trump's EOs rather than deal with them one by one. That will save him precious months of work.

What he does all day

According to the NYT and Fire and Fury:

Seven hours of TV watching before he leaves his bedroom. (approx 4 am to 11 am)
Around 11 AM: Go to the Oval Office and make phone calls to some governors.
Early afternoon: Lunch
?
6 PMish: Retire to his bedroom to eat fast food and watch TV an use an unsecured cell phone to call loyal friends and foreign dictators.

There's a lot of interesting information on this.

It's been a while since I read the Richard Evans trilogy on the Third Reich. There was opposition to Hitler, before and as he began to seize power, but the cost of opposing Hitler was great. Also, there was "disbelief" among many (predominantly intellectuals) that Hitler could actually accomplish what he accomplished. It turns out you have to read the diaries kept by Germans in the 1930s to get a better sense of how people really felt about Hitler. Germany became a one party system. Imagine if every person in your town was a Tea Partier. You'd probably keep your head down. You might pretend to be one. You might join the Tea Party knowing you despise it just to survive. Some people did stand up and those who were not put in a work camp escaped Germany. (Many people fled Germany in the lead up to the war, but Hitler made it so you had to be very rich to do this, because he seized peoples assets. He told the Jews, in effect, get out but made it nearly impossible for them to do so. Many fled with nothing.)

There were so many crosscurrents in Germany in the early 30s stemming from the fallout of WWI and economic crisis, Because of this chaos, there was increased susceptibility to a populist dictator who said he wanted to restore Germany to its "former glory" and that there was a conspiracy to destroy Germany. I'm not sure how easy it was to see what exactly was happening as it was happening. It's probably a bit like the way Hemingway described going broke: "It happens gradually, and then suddenly."

I can't recommend highly enough The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power, both by Richard J. Evans. (There's a third book in the series about the war, but the part leading up to it is even more interesting).

One could devote a decade just to studying the ascent of the Nazis.

He made an interesting tweet on this

You'd think, in normal times, that it would be a Turning Point

when people realized the president doesn't actually give a damn if hundreds of thousands Americans die from a virus, the spread of which could have been cut by two-thirds if he had exerted just a little bit of effort.

Why Facts Don't Change our Minds?

Even if one accepts that racists are emboldened by Trump, are they

not in touch with reality enough to understand he can't protect them from the immediate, decisive and life-changing consequences of not being able to restrain their expression of racism in front of others and on social media?