General Discussion

... but we seem to have become inured to the severity of the situation. The relentless onslaught of one jaw-dropping travesty after another – and that's before lunch – is more than the average mind can absorb before it suffers an aneurysm.
This is NOT politics as usual; this is monstrous evil of astronomical proportions, and even a cursory examination of recent history – 'recent' being the past 80 or 90 years – will tell us that WE WERE WARNED! Republicans are malicious, mendacious, and underhanded people obsessed with total dominion over the lives of others, more commonly referred to as POWER. Christ, there's even a shadowy pseudo-religious movement called Dominionists whose sole purpose in life is to impose their beliefs on ALL of us, whether we like it or not. That also includes a rigid and ruthless political element. The separation of church and state is anathema to them, and summary execution for even minor infractions is not just a supposition, it is very probably an essential element of enforcement. Imagine ICE, but with big, brass crucifixes to justify their murderous depravity. Christian Nationalists are carved out of the same turd, and we dismiss them at our peril.
The late Neville Chamberlain's influence is still alive and well in certain corners of our own beloved party, and acquiescence in advance just to maintain an illusory status quo, or Peace In Our Time, as Chamberlain's fevered mind envisioned it, will be the death of America, and there will be no resurrection. We can't count on an American Winston Churchill to pull us back from the brink.
The new Republican Party is a malignant cancer and must be dealt with accordingly.
I need a glass of wine.