Trump has literally reduced people to 3 year-old levels of magical thinking.
At this point what the GOP is doing is damaging our society's ability to rely and trust key institutions with the result of having more than half the nation regarding the government as illegitimate.
No society can be prevented from collapsing once a large enough percentage of the population believes its government has lost all legitimacy.
Unfortunately, as it has happened at other times in history, it may take things getting much worse before enough people decide that they have had enough with their shenanigans.
At this point what the GOP is doing is damaging our society's ability to rely and trust key institutions with the result of having more than half the nation regarding the government as illegitimate.
No society can be prevented from collapsing once a large enough percentage of the population believes its government has lost all legitimacy.
Unfortunately, as it has happened at other times in history, it may take things getting much worse before enough people decide that they have had enough with their shenanigans.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg