https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-middle-finger-electionQuote
With Trump, it can always get worse, because there is no bottom. In just four years, Trump has already made the conservative movement, dumber, crueler, more dishonest, and more extreme. Rationalization has turned to acceptance. As the toll rises from the pandemic the pro-life party increasingly behaves like a death cult.
Four years into his presidency, Trump can tweet conspiracy theories about Seal Team Six, and Republicans no longer even blink.
What will be the butcher’s bill for another four years of Trump’s denialism and flimflammery?
Two years of accommodating deception, cruelty and corruption, can be a temporary bargain.
In four years, it becomes a habit.
In eight years, it becomes a culture.
A common defense from Trump defenders is that they don't care about personality or character, they care about policy.
But looking at the Republican party today, it's vastly less serious, more conspiratorial, more dishonest, and more abrasive than it was in 2016. I think some of the left's excesses are a response to this. If Trump gets reaffirmed by the American people, I don't know why any politician going forward on the left or right would try to sell ideas of normalcy, decency, compromise, patriotic unity, etc.
The notion that Trump wouldn't infect the Republican party with his nastiness is no longer valid. It's happened.
So I wonder whether Trump supporters here view this as a welcome development. Do you buy into the notion that politics going forward should be an all out war, with civility, decency, and compromise being silly relics of the past? And for fellow anti-Trumpers, if he wins this election, what lessons should we take from that?