Once again, thanks so much for your generosity. It makes the holidays so much brighter. I truly appreciate it.
I don’t know about you but I’m just trying to wrap my mind around the fact that we have three more years of this lunacy and I need to cling to my sanity in order to get through it. The question that keeps running through my mind is, “is it getting better or worse?” We see things like the MAGA crack-up and that seems to be a good thing. But then Trump goes into warmonger mode in Venezuela and Nigeria and seems to be upping the ante on absurd expansionism and you wonder if it isn’t hurtling way out of control.
They are very bad at executing most things. Just look at DOGE. But the chaos may be even more dangerous. The lower courts are holding up and there’s a tiny bit of hope from the Supreme Court on that last shadow docket ruling about the National Guard in Illinois, but who knows with them? For all we know, they’re planning to actually overturn the 14th Amendment and say, “waddaya gonna do about it?” It all feels so uncertain.
Still, there’s hope. People are awake and engaged and the Republicans are off-balance and starting to fight amongst themselves. People don’t want what they’re selling. So this year we may just turn the corner.
Thanks again for sticking with us here at Hullabaloo. It’s been a wild ride all these years — and it isn’t over yet. We can do this.
cheers,
digby