Tim Kreider on the never-ending cycle.
It’s hard enough to turn on the news without flinching anymore, but this last weekend was the first time I couldn’t even bear to read or listen to it. I don’t need to hear it; I’ve seen this one before. Every Republican President in my adult lifetime has 1.) crashed the economy and 2.) started a war in the Middle East. It’s as certain as death and tax cuts for the rich. By now it might as well be their official campaign platform, yet somehow the adorably slow learners of the American electorate are still surprised by it, every time.
I’d quote every single line of this article if I could. Nail on the head over and over. Not even mentioning that a lot of the people in the media and the government that glided us into the last big war without any objections, while making excuses for an obviously corrupt and deceitful administration, are still around doing the same shit today. Public opinion has shifted a lot though, and Trump won’t even pretend to have a reason for this one. So watch as these same people start to make comparisons to Bush and try and make it sound as if that was a different thing so they can justify their own equivocation to whatever it is the polls say, lacking of course in any sort of moral grounding. I’m pretty sick of it too.