John Ganz: “We are now accustomed to repeating that President Trump’s coalition is fragile or that his style of governance has inherent weaknesses. That is true to the extent that he overthrows the U.S. government.” How weak are the coalitions that have been reformed and enlarged after trying to force them to do so? And how weak are those who have managed to fill the atmosphere with a sense of complete belief about themselves and complete cynicism about their adversaries? Is it?”
“This is an attitude that is now shared even among people who consider themselves not his supporters. It is now as if voting somehow returns a clean slate to a clean slate and turns a lie into a truth.” There is a process of retrospective legitimation…
“Some of that may be due to the failures of the media and the opposition, but some credit should go to Mr. Trump himself. This great comic insult angered him. He embarrassed his opponents. They are now forced to laugh along or be seen as spoilsport.”
david ferris: How the January 6th insurrectionists ultimately won.
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