I think in that hypothetical the impeachment would be quick AND bipartisan

Thousands of Afghans with Temporary Protected Status are people who helped US forces and who risked their lives to work with the Coalition. Now Trump is going to toss them aside, strip their legal status, and maybe even try to deport them back to the Taliban. It's unconscionable.

I'm currently halfway through Kurt Andersen's "Fantasyland" and it's been a helpful lense to understand the long strain of hucksterism and magical thinking (not exclusively from the right) that's permeated our history

I don't wanna put words into his mouth, but I'm guessing @radiofreetom.bsky.social would also (accurately) apply this generic description to a good chunk of the voters who put these types of guys in power

I feel like there were elements of this religiosity pre Trump on the populist right (although it's def in overdrive rn). Rush had his "ditto heads" for example, and I know nominally Christian but non churchgoers who've followed the infotainment slop with religious fervor for decades.

Whatever sociological phenomenon that caused islamists to celebrate martyrs and Germans to stick with Hitler during the battle of Berlin seems to be at play with the hardcore base (see covid deaths). I suspect apathetic swing voters and chamber of commerce types will end up accepting reality though

Similarly during the height of the pandemic it always struck me as obvious that pharmaceutical companies would make more money treating someone hospitalized with covid than they would from a vaccine dose. I hate the post truth era.