Been watching Senator Cory Booker for a few hours now and he is still cogently and exhaustively cataloguing a litany of compelling reasons why the Trump administration is an existential crisis to decent, modest citizens across the country.

A noble and determined effort.

Vade et fac similiter.

"The point is 'liberating' oneself from morality — to take power but reject responsibility for it. It’s creating one set of rules for you and another set for me, so that in the end, my mediocrity can defeat your excellence. It’s making merit about who you are, not what you do." — John Stoehr

I'm guessing that a more useful model than the Third Reich for gauging the trajectory of Trump's reign would be the regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The weak constitutional monarchy Wilhelm inherited from Bismark bears some resemblance to predictably debased and declining institutions of US governance.

"'The government is in control of the drones and refuses to tell the American people what is going on. It really is that bad,' she wrote."

Who controls them after 20 January, Marge?

www.newsweek.com/marjorie-tay...

Fascism is bad for business.

Unregulated capitalism is violence.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. — Antonio Gramsci

To claim MAGA is "under Trump's control", while arguably true now, has an ahistorical feel given the contingent nature of human events and activity.

The Trump-adjacent who misconstrue or ignore the virulent anti-corporate underpinning of the militant Trump coalition seem do so at their own peril.