And his march toward despotism
If the emotionally stunted man-child in the Oval Office had never developed object permanence, he’d forget about things like wind turbines and political adversaries as soon as they were out of sight. Alas:
President Trump on Sunday threatened to investigate former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey over a 2013 political scandal, days after the F.B.I. raided the home and office of another former Trump official turned critic.
Mr. Trump made the threat on social media after Mr. Christie said during an appearance on ABC News that the president “doesn’t care” about maintaining a separation between his office and criminal investigations.
And those “windmills” too:
The Trump administration on Friday ordered that all construction stop on Revolution Wind, a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is already mostly built.
The 65-turbine project had obtained all necessary permits from the Biden administration, and nearly 70 percent of the turbines have been installed. The developers behind the project had said it was on track to produce enough electricity for more than 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut by next spring.
Digby wrote, “This is a man who thinks there’s a big valve that can release all the ‘water from Canada’ to California. Why would we doubt that he honestly thinks that wind and solar are too ‘ugly’ for us to use in the United States?”
Seems to me that the answer is for Trump to gold-plate the wind turbines. And why not Chris Christie too. A Bond villain would.
Maybe a despot too. Bill Kristol this morning ticks off a partial list of Trump’s actions in our “slide toward authoritarianism.” Make that “a march toward despotism,” Kristol amends himself. Because “does anyone think they’re going to all this trouble to accumulate power so they can willingly hand it over in 2028?” There’s no reason anymore to “sugarcoat what we’re seeing.”
The “enemies of a free society” are busily demolishing the republic. Stopping their march cannot wait until 2026, much less 2028.
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