Magnanamimous in Victory

[freeloader]

Well, let’s hope Trump acts like a conventional Republican and the crazy-sounding things he and his inner core of supporters/allies said (being a dictator, putting political opponents in prison, placing Democrats before military tribunals for treason, ending free speech rights for people/speech that Trump doesn’t like, ending the right to vote for women, replacing the income tax with tariffs, ending elections, etc) were just political rhetoric, fantasies, or something akin to that. With control of the White House, Senate, and House, Trump largely will be free to do whatever he wants. He has already said he isn’t going to make the same mistake he made the first time and fill his cabinet with people who place loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to Trump, and I take him at his word in that. One way or another, and for good or ill, it’s going to be a dramatic next four years and our country probably won’t be recognizable at the end.  It will also be really interesting to see if the Republicans who, Trump included, have heretofore maintained the traditional Republican position of allowing states to decide things like abortion or if we see national bans on abortion, pornography, vaccine mandates, and other political decisions, thus concentrating power in the hands of the federal government in profound and new ways.