We Get the Government We Deserve
Last week I wrote about the ways in which the archconservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, in agreeing to hear Trump’s ludicrous immunity claim, is abetting his open desire to install a right wing dictatorship in the US. (Though only, he says, for Day One. His words, not mine.)
That effort carried on the very next day, when the Court handed down a second decision keeping Trump on the ballot in Colorado and elsewhere.
But it would be an enormous mistake to believe that SCOTUS, or any governmental institution, is the only problem. It would be a mistake even to say that the problem lies with Trump and the other cretinous architects of that neo-fascist endeavor themselves. A far more worrying problem is the extent to which many many many ordinary Americans fail to appreciate the danger, and — gobsmackingly — seem to think that Donald Trump and his fellow travelers are reasonable, trustworthy politicians who deserve their vote.
Be they deluded Kool Aid-drunk true believers, apathetic low-information voters who aren’t really paying attention, or just wildly misinformed folks who can still be won over, these citizens represent a terrifying demographic on whom the latest Most Important Election of Our Lifetimes may turn, and on whom the forces of fascism are counting.
