I am sitting at my desk in my summer home on a lake in Wisconsin.
As I type a "Trump Boat Parade" is circling around the lake. The way it works here one boat starts and goes around the lake blaring a horn and over successive trips around the lake others join in the parade. Some have flags and some do not. They continue circling, waving fl…
I am sitting at my desk in my summer home on a lake in Wisconsin.
As I type a "Trump Boat Parade" is circling around the lake. The way it works here one boat starts and goes around the lake blaring a horn and over successive trips around the lake others join in the parade. Some have flags and some do not. They continue circling, waving flags, tooting horns until it seems no one else is joining in. Then some go home back to their docks and piers and others dock down by the local bar and restaurant for brandy old fashioneds and the traditional Friday night fish fry.
I suspect this will happen every Friday until sometime after Labor Day as it did in 2020.
Nothing that any of us worry about enters their minds. This is probably the high point of their lives that they will tell their grandchildren about in a decade or so. They are having fun. D H Lawrence wrote a poem once called "The Sane Revolution" it begins:
"If you make a revolution, make it for fun,
don't make it in ghastly seriousness,
don't do it in deadly earnest,
do it for fun."
And this is the secret sauce of MAGA and when the dour liberals knit their brows and tap their desk in concern (as Rachel Maddow does so exquisitely) they feel they have won. And it is fun. This is a social revolution.
And establishment institutionalists like us are the actual conservatives trying to hold things together and THEY are the revolutionaries saying they are done with us. They don't really care what comes after the flood things might be better for them, or things could be worse, but no matter what--- things will be different.
I am sitting at my desk in my summer home on a lake in Wisconsin.
As I type a "Trump Boat Parade" is circling around the lake. The way it works here one boat starts and goes around the lake blaring a horn and over successive trips around the lake others join in the parade. Some have flags and some do not. They continue circling, waving flags, tooting horns until it seems no one else is joining in. Then some go home back to their docks and piers and others dock down by the local bar and restaurant for brandy old fashioneds and the traditional Friday night fish fry.
I suspect this will happen every Friday until sometime after Labor Day as it did in 2020.
Nothing that any of us worry about enters their minds. This is probably the high point of their lives that they will tell their grandchildren about in a decade or so. They are having fun. D H Lawrence wrote a poem once called "The Sane Revolution" it begins:
"If you make a revolution, make it for fun,
don't make it in ghastly seriousness,
don't do it in deadly earnest,
do it for fun."
And this is the secret sauce of MAGA and when the dour liberals knit their brows and tap their desk in concern (as Rachel Maddow does so exquisitely) they feel they have won. And it is fun. This is a social revolution.
And establishment institutionalists like us are the actual conservatives trying to hold things together and THEY are the revolutionaries saying they are done with us. They don't really care what comes after the flood things might be better for them, or things could be worse, but no matter what--- things will be different.