the scary thing is, i think it's now clear donnie would have won easily if it weren't for covid-19

[Grokenstein]

18. As horrifying and depressing a thought as it was

I've long said all he had to do to stay in office was one good thing. But that's utterly contrary to his nature.

There was never going to be a happy ending once he got in. We're delighted, as we should be, that he's toast now, but that's four years of hell and misery and loss and regression we might have avoided, should have avoided. Hundreds of thousands of tragedies that are going to continue to pile up because of the GOP, and now they're going to lay it at the feet of Biden and Harris as if they possess magic wands to cure it all instantly even as Republicans seek to block their every move. We're going to be coping with the angry cult for years, and there's bound to be at least one Timothy McVeigh among them.

The GOP is already updating their list of smarmy idiot puppets to fill the role of their next dictator-wannabe, knowing that the poorly educated will launch themselves at the feet of any "strongman" who promises to hurt the people they hate and give them a tax cut. Trump is the weak man's idea of a strong man; as long as we maintain a moron culture the United States is the weak nation's idea of a strong nation.