Mary Trump: the most cogent description ever of our current peril as a democracy

[Baitball Blogger]

23. this paragraph really hit home:

"This destruction of norms by Donald and other Republicans in the executive and legislative branches has happened so quickly, and has been so thorough, that it’s clear the seeds of it must have been planted a long time ago. It was possible for Donald, the weakest man I have ever known, to exploit the weaknesses in the system not because he introduced them, but because they were there for him to exploit in the first place."

I have been saying it over and over again. If all politics is local, then what was going on at the local level is crucial to understand because it is at the local level that this insanity gets its support. Yes, racist policies have been pushed by the Republicans since Lee Atwater. But at a Federal level, especially through the nineties, Democrats at a Federal level were more interested at working across the aisle, and silencing minority opinions during election years to appease the conservative racist swing voters as well as Southern Democrats.

Trump was just so sloppy, he removed all doubt about what they were doing and what they believed in. It IS White Supremacy fighting for power. The fact that their agenda no longer has any pretense of civility will be his and their downfall.