In the past week or so, the courts have begun to try to set some boundaries on the MuskāMillerāTrump administrationās early blitz of recklessness.
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This judicial review provides at least a small reprieve, hope that some of the administrationās most destructive impulses will be stopped. Or at least pared back. But even with the courts stepping up, and even with the reality of the administrationās ineptitude sinking in, this early MuskāMillerāTrump blitz remains veryāmaybe irreparablyādamaging. Of course, there are a lot of moles to whack: the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are being dismantled at an alarming rate, and the court system is not known for being nimble. The administration is betting, perhaps rightly, that at least some of its thoughtless, lawless efforts will slip through the cracks.
But even if the courts caught them allāand even if every court facing each lawless escapade said, āNope, thatās not a thingāāstill the entire process would be doing serious damage to our institutions. Think of it as someone spoofing your identity and going on a shopping spree with your credit cards. Even if the goon gets caught, you still have to go store by store to argue that the fraudulent purchase wasnāt legitimate and hope the debt is forgiven. And all the while, perhaps long after all the debts are dealt with, the torrent of uncertainty kills your credit score.
The idea that america was fine until MAGA sabotaged it is absurd and reductionist.
Slowly degrading since what Nixon?
Ifās been being eroded for a long time, but just recently itās become fragile enough to be unstoppable at any level.
I donāt see anybody saying everything was fine. That doesnāt mean no room existed to get much, much worse.
Do you not think 2016 America was better than America today?
Not particularly. Especially if you are brown.
I mean, did we all forget Occupy happening in 2008? And the Obama admin sending in jackboots to clear everyone out, so profits can get back to shareholders?
Obama wasnāt POTUS until 2009.
Occupy? With its main spokesman Tim Pool? No, I havenāt forgotten.
That Tim Pool?
Yep.
Hasnāt it been thoroughly sabotaged by Reagan already? Not to say that Trump canāt do a fine job setting the rubble on fire, but i concur that the US has been a mess for quite some time.
In comparison to what weāre probably going to be left with for the rest of our lives, what we had before MAGA will seem like a fucking utopia.
Anyone who thinks the US, post 9/11 as utopia, by most any measure, is looking at things through Rose Colored Lenses.