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    6 months ago

    characterizing present day america as “ice cream” is patently absurd. suggesting that a second trump term would be driving off a cliff when we all survived the first one despite a literal pandemic is even sillier.

    but the real crazy part is suggesting that there’s a gulf as wide as “ice cream vs driving off a cliff” between the two candidates.

    the numbers are trash but that’s neither here nor there.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, I don’t think anyone knew the extent of the administrative state and to what extent it would stymie the efforts of an executive it opposed.

        I kinda think if we hadn’t had Covid there wouldn’t be a project 2025. Trump would have just left office and assumed the country was too sclerotic to make any kind of changes, but instead there at the end he got to see what it was really capable of. For all the “it hurt itself in its confusion” moments, operation warpspeed (a trump joint!) showed what the state was capable of.

        Now everyone with half a brain is thinking how they could take advantage of that. It’s surprising democrats don’t have their own plan to create a unitary executive…