Dark Days Before the Dawn

Simon Rosenberg had a lot to say on his substack this morning, and I have turned some of that into lists that might be useful as we communicate with people who might not be as politically engaged as we are.

Simon Rosenberg sees what’s happening as an emerging opportunity.

According to Rosenberg, in recent days we’ve all been reminded that:

• sometimes the wheels on the bus go round and round,
• and sometimes they come flying off.
• Trump has always been a ridiculous and cartoonish figure.
• The Emperor never had any clothes.
• He was always the old man behind the curtain and never the Wizard.

I just get the sense now that the buffoonish, dangerous, sundowning man we all see is now being seen by far more people.

A door is opening, people are waking up to the awful reality of Trump and not the right wing noise machine version of him.

You never know in politics what is the trigger that causes things to change, for new understandings to emerge. I have always believed that there was a limit to how fast some of his weak supporters would have buyer’s remorse, and come to realize they got played. In fact I’ve been surprised how quickly and consequentially his numbers have come down. Down, however they are, even on what was his greatest strength – immigration.

Which is why we need to keep working as hard as we can people. He is stumbling, failing, getting panicky, looking weak and pathetic.

An opportunity is emerging for us and we need to seize it.

That was from yesterday.  This is Rosenberg today.

I made some lists from what Rosenberg wrote, because as text it was overwhelming and my eyes were glazing over.

What Trump Has Done

A quick summary – other than breaking a lot of things and enriching himself Trump has very few wins he can point to right now.

• His economic strategy is slowing the global and US economies,
• has caused our credit rating to be downgraded,
• threatens the fiscal integrity of the United States,
• raises prices on everyone and does not cutting them,
• and will cause tens of millions to lose their health insurance,
• tens of millions more will see their health care costs rise
• and the overall health care system will be dramatically weakened.

What Trump Promised

• He promised to end the Ukraine war,
• bring peace to the Middle East,
• end the Gaza conflict,
• 90 trade deals in 90 days,
• rip Greenland from Europe,
• make Canada the 51st state

In reality, none of that has happened.

• global leaders are not bending the knee
• and some are even mocking him to his face while visiting the Oval Office.
• He keeps losing in court again and again, badly,
• and judges are growing far more ambitious in their rulings.
• He had to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.
• His bestie Elon tore into him, trashed his terrible budget bill
• and [Elon]called on him to be replaced as President.
• No one came to his birthday parade.
• Rs keep losing and underperforming in elections.
• His cowardice and indecision has become a global meme.
• His budget bill is wildly unpopular, and struggling to get through Congress.
• What may be the largest protest movement in American history has formed against him.
• It has become impossible to hide the buffoonery of his Star Wars bar cabinet.
• He looks terrible.
• His ties are longer, his pants higher and his Truths more unhinged.
• He fled the G7 on Monday.
• Respected elected officials in America are getting arrested, charged, assaulted and assasinated.
• Marines are on the streets of an American city.

Everything he is doing appears designed to make China and Russia – not America – great again.

The circle of defiance to Trump’s agenda of sabotage, plunder and betrayal keeps growing and growing. The world, the American people and reality itself just aren’t bending the knee. Our democracy is proving more resilient and our people more patriotic than he expected. This thing simply isn’t working as this delusional, vainglorious, sundowning old man thought it would.

We, all of us, clearly do not understand how STRONG AND MIGHTY he is.

And now I’ll repeat what Rosenberg wrote yesterday

Open thread!

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