Saturday, March 01, 2025

yes, but...

What the tweet says about the left is true: the left doesn't play, and it will immediately use whatever power it gets to bring the country back down into the mire while calling that a victory. But the expressed imperative that Trump must set the left back by a century (read the full tweet) is impossible for one man to accomplish. It's going to take many Trumps in a row to get to that point, and even then, the battle won't be over. History is pendular—even more so in a bipolar, two-party system. I'm rereading the Stephen R. Donaldson fantasy series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever right now, and I'm remembering one of the series's central themes: you can't kill Despite. The best you can do is defeat it for a time.


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