Those who went through the Bush years may remember how scandal after scandal, policy failure after policy failure, didn't seem to stick. The debacle in Iraq dented Bush's popularity, but not nearly as much as it should have 2/
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I could be wrong, but somehow the Lysol moment feels like it could be a psychological turning point — the moment when even a lot of Trump diehards face up to his essential unfitness 1/
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But Katrina somehow was the defining moment. Some of us had long understood Bush's inadequacy, but "Heckuva job, Brownie" as scenes of devastation played on TV broke through the denial 3/
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And I have the feeling — which is all that it is — that suggesting that people inject themselves with disinfectant may in its own way be the comparable moment, when even the true believers run out of excuses 4/
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Of course I could be wrong. But right now my sense is that, to turn the pundit cliche on its head, yesterday was the day Trump stopped being president 5/
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Why would it be different? This seems like just another in a long line.
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Pretty much every Cog Scientist in the USA has been (even if just privately) pointing out that there is no “Bottom” here. And that the “bottom” is when his supporters start shooting at their identified “enemies.” Cults that have this much power are like that.
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Not a big problem...Piers doesn’t vote in the US, I think, but I’m sure he still has Putin on his side ..
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