The anger is spilling over to the public. I heard epithets muttered at an office worker explaining policy, drivers are leaning on the horn at the slightest infraction. It's YOU who should get out of their way, not them who should avoid you.

I’m sure he couldn’t even understand the concept. Here in Delaware you can’t hate your opponent because your kid will be coached by him in basketball or something. It’s just a big small town. I really wish everyone would start thinking of people as their neighbors.

No ideology, no political theory

He's a man-baby narcissist who considers anyone who criticizes him an "enemy," be it a world leader, podcaster, or news host

This shitty rhetoric of his will go away when he does. Serious pols won't attempt this again

DURec

Plus I think it would be a mistake to think Vance, Thiel, Project 2025, and Miller will just quietly fade away.

The Vances and Thiels will try, sure. But their fascist agenda will have to be hidden again, behind dogwhistling, etc

Trump was the outsider "smart businessman" going to DC to drain the swamp and stop that librul wokey business - that's why they gave him so much latitude on his character and behavior.

They'll need a generation or two before they can launch a new "regular guy" Trump

Absolutely agree about the Vance, Thiel, Miller, and 2025 stuff not going away.

Still, some in the Valley are torn between their future wealth and how they've benefited from democracy.

Some thoughts from Valley people themselves ...
https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-politics-shift/

I'm betting on their coming to their senses by the next two election cycles....
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3523946

The people make their will known, politicians transactionally offer action (legislation, hearings) for power, people choose, and politicians complete the transaction (or abrogate it) by delivering (or not).

Are you sure? Is that how The People's transactional politics works? Maybe in theory
But right now in practice we're not in "democratic politics"...
Polls have shown an unmistakable gap between what people want and what current majority republican politics is delivering (maybe 2025 dark corporate $ lobbying, not sure).
There's lot of distracting culture war headlines that intentionally muddle the People's known will, for another.

I'm kinda surprised you'd say trump is "all politics" when he's easily perceived as psychotic, demented, and only allows cameras to get his headline grabbing narrative(s), some of it scripted, and some of it spontaneously black hearted. Unless his being a tool of chaos is the point.

Just sayin. Just thinking out loud.

Dictatorships are transactional in a very strained way because if they don't deliver toilet paper and circuses they can end up like the Ceaucescus. Further, the dictator has to transactionally manage their minions and play them off against each other and offer them inducements to take the risk of being inside the regime.

I didn't say tRump is "all politics". I said he "has politics". He is "all transactional" in his demented narcissistic way. For example, he does things that do not benefit him or maga in the here and now but are intended for his legacy.

I don't think nutLick or Bessent are there without some quid pro quo.

I don't think he'll have a legacy in any good sense of the word; also very fair point on your last sentence.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Wired paywalled, but the picture is amusing. I think I see left to right: Bezos, unknown1 (Thiel?), unknown2 (recent IPO guy?), unknown3, Zuckerberg, unknown4, tRump, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Google CEO, Muck, Howard nutLick.

Or at least attempted genocide. They want millions of Americans to be exterminated.

I sure hope at some point the people who elected these genocidal tendency politicians will agree that genocide was not what they voted for. But I fear that so long as Fox News makes them feel good about how good dear leader's genocide will be for the country, that won't happen.

No way in hell is he "sorry" for his hatred.

He’s so narcissistic he has to have things his way and to him everything against him is bad. It is why our democracy is in trouble.