To hear Rachel Maddow tell it, the assault is on, and has been since before Trump took office. The Heritage Foundation’s deranged brainchild is finding its footing, currently focused on bringing the nation’s institutions of higher learning to their knees, freezing grant money and other funding under the sham pretense of rooting out anti-Semitism, trying to put Columbia and Cornell and Harvard and the rest out of business and selling the real estate, or at least hobbling them to the point that they have no voice, can no longer produce graduates with heads on their shoulders and functioning bullshit meters that can assess Project 2025 for what it is: an ugly, dystopian, oppressive tool of paranoid tyrants and convenient Christians.
It should be clear by now that Matt Gaetz’s nomination was a mere trial balloon, as if the powers that be were testing the waters, and trying to make the rest who amazingly made it through the confirmation process look… normal?
Anyway, if they get their way, there will be many fewer around who are savvy and brave enough to point to Kevin Roberts or Russell Vought or JD Vance or Steve Bannon and the rest and convince anyone that these are the bad guys.
Ms. Maddow is smart and thorough and insightful, but she’s been raising her voice a lot lately, alarmed and trying to sound the alarm, highlighting all the protests big and small, in an attempt at giving her listeners both a little hope but also a warning that this is an actual emergency of the first magnitude.
If we don’t awaken now, it’ll be a case of waking up one morning in the not-so-distant future and discovering the hard way that everything familiar and dependable, everything that once made sense, is gone. Just like that.
Trump and the rest truly don’t care about America or anyone who lives here. They only care about themselves and the power they can acquire and wield. Their “new world order” is nothing more than America eviscerated, in isolation and ruins, and their pockets lined. There are, apparently, a lot of people willing to sell their souls.
Voters thought it was all about the price of eggs and their pocketbooks? Not even close.
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