Fixing a Whole

[malthaussen]

42. Exactly.

I fear though, that there are a number of DUers who concentrate on the glamorous position, and pay little attention to the important structure beneath. Someone like you who has worked for years in local government knows that things like school boards and county commissioners are, in some very real ways, more important than who gets to be President every four years.

So many people construct nightmares of things Mr Trump will do. I have little doubt that he would try to nuke Des Moines if he felt it expedient (although he'd probably go after San Francisco first). Whether STRATCOM would suffer a sudden inexplicable outburst of technical failures and incompetence if he ordered such a thing is the real material question.

Which leads me tangentially to a thought I've been thinking lately. Criminals are limited in their actions by an estimation of what they can get away with (well, the sane ones are, anyway). I've been thinking that the real damage Donald Trump has done has been to show criminals that they can get away with a lot worse than they thought they could. If this were the case, alas, it makes it even more important that he be brought to humiliating justice. I have not much confidence that that is going to be the case, though. And first of all, it is necessary to stop the bleeding. (I note that Mr Trump has inflicted real trauma on the US nation, and it should be treated as such)

-- Mal