Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyful Kwanza and an exultant end to 2020! I have some good news for you. The Trump presidency is almost over!

I also have some bad news: his cult isn’t going anywhere. Whether Donald Trump is on the scene or not, the political faction/cult/tribe/gang/whatever is always with us in one guise or another. Sometimes, they just make a lot of noise, other times they act as political saboteurs and there are moments in which they act out violently. And sometimes, it happens all at once. We may be in one of those times.

Donald Trump refuses to concede, which is not big surprise. He is a sick human being who should never have been allowed anywhere near the halls of power. The mere fact that he was is a testament to how far off the rails this powerful country of ours has gone. But he didn’t do it alone. His wealthy Republican benefactors, the right wing media, the GOP establishment and the angry, white Republican base were in it with him every step of the way.

I have been chronicling this phenomenon since the day I started this blog way back when the internet was young. It’s endlessly fascinating and increasingly terrifying. These people have gone farther in the last few years than even I thought they would go and I have never taken their movement lightly. Frankly, these post-election shenanigans have shaken me a bit. It’s possible the right is just in throes of a final Trump temper tantrum but doors have been opened that never should have been tried. I don’t know how it’s going to go.

Still, it could have been worse. I had thought that if Trump won, I might shut down this blog and go get a job at Starbucks or something. Being a Trump critic with a following has never felt particularly dangerous to me personally, but we did receive a couple of legal threats over the past four years and I assumed that could ramp up substantially if he had the validation of a second term. Trump may be a buffoon but he’s a dangerous buffoon and his GOP collaborators have shown that they are willing to back whatever undemocratic, unconstitutional abuse of power he wanted to deploy.

Luckily, we do not have to worry about that. The country is going to remain in crisis for some time, healthwise, economically and politically. But we don’t have to worry about a pathological, proto-fascist president and an authoritarian DOJ using their power to shut down dissent. At least not for the next four years. Huzzah.

So, we’re still in business here at Hullabaloo and I’m here asking for your support to keep us afloat for another year. We spruced up the place a little bit this year and I hope it’s to your liking. It’s still an un-cool, old-fashioned, clunky old blog but I hope the writing by my daily wingman Tom Sullivan, movie maven Dennis Hartley, contributors tristero, Spocko and Battocchio and myself manage to keep your interest without all the fun bells and whistles you might find elsewhere. We are nothing if not prolific.

So, once again, if you would like to help keep us going as we pass from the craziest political era ever to one that is no less important as we deal with fallout, I’d be grateful for your support.

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Cheers,

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