Happy Liberation Day Everybody!!!

[sigh]

This is gonna be real bad, idn't it?

   This is my guess about how it all goes sideways: tariffs and mass Federal firings do major (even if only short-term) economic damage. The Dems bounce back, e.g. winning the midterms. Suddenly red-team triumphalism is a joke on the order of their confidence in the "red wave" of '22...and then we're right back on the road to 1984...
   Apparently Trump has a point--though perhaps not as strong a point as he thinks--about tariffs. But this isn't a hill I want the counterrevolution to die on. Trump's got so many irons in the fire, and is shocking and aweing on so many fronts... I'd say that several failures are virtually guaranteed, just on the basis of how much he's doing, and how fast. It might not take all that much to change the national mood. And once the left is off the ropes, and the media regains control of "The Narrative"...we're back to playing defense...

   The last thing we need right now, IMO, is to let the Dems think they can stay crazy and still win. Which, well...see Wisconsin just now... To have a healthy democratic aspect of our democratic republic, we really do need two sane parties.

   Also, of course, there are some worrying signs of right-wing crazy getting out of the bottle... That's the other last thing we need right now...

   And as for Trump himself: Well, I knew the Trump fatigue was coming...but I didn't think I'd already be in stage 3 by April...but here we are.