This Time We Have a Head Start
Todays Fucking News is worth reading, unless the "F" word bothers you.
Even if it does, perhaps today you'll make an exception.
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If we want to feel normal again—and if we want to do good over the next four years—it’s important to understand the pieces of why we feel this way. This is how we start to feel better—without dishonoring the reasons for how we feel—and how we ready ourselves for the successes, yes, successes, that lie ahead.
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENS NOW
We don’t know. That’s a good thing. We control more of it than we realize. That’s a better thing. Here’s what we do know.
George W. Bush came into office a hapless, mockable doofus with an ideologically hard-core vice president who knew what he wanted to do and how to do it. Those fuckers had a plan. They had plans down to specific oil fields. In Iraq.
Donald Fucking Trump doesn’t even have half his cabinet in place. His energy secretary just found out what the Department of Energy does. Trump has hundreds of positions to fill and hasn’t nominated more than a handful of people to fill them. (And if you’re rightly concerned that our national security is at risk, Trump had the smarts to ask top figures from the Obama national-security team to stay on.)
But remember what happened with the Bush presidency. It hit reality.
The Bubble
Washington isn’t The Bubble. Washington forces people in power into contact with the interests of others and into accountability for the outcomes of their decisions. The Heartland, where people live in self-segregated communities and associate only with the like-minded, and spout their faces off about their principles, that’s the fucking bubble. Why do you think Paul Ryan wanted members of Congress not staying in Washington a lot? That’s why politicians always disappoint their most feverish zealots. They leave The Bubble.
Bush soured on Cheney. Justice Roberts upheld ObamaCare.
And remember, Bush had Democrats largely on his side when he started. After Bush-Gore, there was all this bullshit about national unity, which he abused the fuck out of, and then 9/11 came along and in the smoke over New York, the Bush Administration saw a blank check.
This time we have a head start.
Because we have already denied Trump national unity. Because he enters office dragged down by the lowest approval ratings of any new president. Because Trump is going to hamstring his own administration by intentionally poisoning every arm of it with internecine fighting. Because his administration is full of inexperienced people who will leave holes we can drive lawsuit-bearing trucks through. Because he inherits a vast federal government full of dedicated government workers who will push back and blow whistles and resign individually or en masse in extreme cases. We saw it under Bush. We will see it again.
But most of all we have a head start because of how far we went with Barack Obama. It’s worth taking a moment to review exactly how strong a position he leaves us in.
More....much more-
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