Yeah, but we don't pass bathroom bills so...

I never understood, nor will I, how anyone can look at anything the President is doing this time, did in his first term, or really has ever done or will do in the future of his self-centered and heartless existence with anything other than horror and disdain. 

Pictured: a draft dodger shaking down a war-time leader and

berating him both for his unwillingness to hand over territory to an

invading force and for his fashion sense. Not pictured: a hint of irony.

On the one hand I do not approve of
vandalism. On the other hand, this.

For the most part, his behavior has been enough to alienate the last of the few family members and vague acquaintances of mine he once had enthralled, and that's a start. Now, when I refer to the vast fields of rubes who bark along with this insanity, at least I'm not talking about anyone I care about. And for the most part, as a Californian, other than the odd Tesla, I'm statistically unlikely to encounter any out and proud MAGAs in the wild. 

To be clear, no group adopting a skull
as an emblem has ever been the good guy.
Also, the Punisher hates fascists.

But still, there's a sense that vast swathes of the country that are simply under the sway of an occupying force. An army of zombified zealots who traded their souls for a lazy political ideology, and replaced having a personality with red hats and Punisher decals. And maybe they feel the same way about us: a bunch of woke liberal socialists indulging in the sin of empathy or whatever nonsense they tried to float a few weeks back. But since they literally cannot define the words "woke" or "socialist," I'm hopeful history will bear us out. 

"Hey,  don't have to stand here and
tolerate your intolerance of our intolerance."

-Press Secretary Leavitt

Eventually. And I'm frustrated by the question of what their plan is. Like, the polls are aways half approve, half disapprove. Republicans support this lunacy by a 90% margin and Democrats abhor it by, yup, a 90% margin. But how are we supposed to have a functioning society when half the county is screaming about tearing everything down and replacing it with some kind of weird Elo-garchy, and half of us just want to look at our phones without thinking "what's he done now?"

"Where was everybody? Really could
have used that grudging coalition."

-Shoulda Been President Harris

Again, I get that the Right hates the Left and feels the same way, but the difference is that when our star is in ascendance--or more accurately, when we've mustered together a grudging coalition of generally progressive viewpoints and manage to win an election--nobody is a public enemy. No broadly defined group of people is marked out as being responsible for whatever perceived ills society is facing. Democrats don't run on a platform of making life miserable for entire groups of people. There are no bathroom bills under Democrats.

So I'm not saying that the American Left is perfect or doesn't make huge mistakes, but on balance I think we're talking about a worldview where everyone is welcome versus one where straight, white, Evangelical Christian, cis-gendered, English-speakers are American, and everyone else is barely tolerated, or not tolerated at all.

Above: a broadly defined group that probably should be
marked out as responsible for the ills our society faces.