emptywheel

No one has been more brain poisoned by Trump than those whose entire political identity was built around conceiving of themselves as handmaidens of a benevolent and basically unconstrained security state.

Like, on the one hand, you dedicated your career to undermining the tools available for the public to constrain a malicious executive. On the other, it would be very unpleasant for you to acknowledge any complicity in all this.

So yeah, I guess I see how you land on a posture of perpetual panic and self-aggrandizement.

“May the decent among us momentarily band together to stop this wholly aberrant evil that no one could possibly have anticipated!”

If your main concern is assuaging your ego and avoiding any unpleasant reckoning with the myopia of your worldview, i totally get why that posture appeals.

It’s just like, a real drag for the rest of us.